The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I've flown in with Van twice, and he is dependable and increasingly friendly. The first year he only grunted, and the second he said two or three words Just kidding -- but he is a man of few words.

On the Alagnak you can get at least a little more solitude by starting on the Kukaklek branch, as we will do this year. Wimpy people are scared away by a rapid whose class III rating would make California boaters chuckle. Just kidding again -- the rapid is serious business, but quite doable.