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Targeting Situk River steelhead in Alaska

By Ed Jones
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com — Nov. 22, 2006

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

YAKUTAT, Alaska — It was pitch black, freezing and a headlamp was required to follow the snow covered trail. The pace was brisk in the areas of trail protected by a dense canopy of Sitka spruce and hemlock forest. But intermittent meadows and alder thickets made life miserable with chest-high snow and a completely obscured path. Still, I continued on, motivated by the fact I was on the world-famous Situk River near Yakutat, Alaska, in mid-April carrying my favorite fly rod and a trove of ...

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