long flight but great trout fishing

[CH4]

Have you fished in Alaska?

Yep, lived/worked there for a while; l don't recall catching anything under 18". I took this salmon on the Wood River. From hook to stomach was less than 15 minutes.

In the lower 48 I never did much fishing, but in SW Alaska I couldn't get enough of it; on the North Slope I helped clean a couple 70 footers.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I loved fishing as a kid up at our camp in Crawford Co. Down the road was a creek and I would spend hours walking up & down to the water holes and fish for the natural trout. Never anything more than 8-10" but it was fun. PA, like many of our states, has some beautiful scenery, especially in the fall. I plan on visiting a few places in this state that I've not seen yet if this covid gets under control. I've also heard from my friends that were there that Viet Nam is a very beautiful country.

 

[Ziggy2525]

go west from CA about 10,000 miles, land at Cam Rahn Bay, then take a helicopter 27 miles due west and there is a great trout stream/small river in that valley in the picture. I was with the Korean 9th Inf Div the last 8 months of my senior trip. the hill top where this was taken was our OP. on a patrol thru the valley we had to cross said stream on a log bridge. as we crossed I noticed something dart under the log. we made camp just across the stream and while the ROK's were setting up defensive positions, I broke out my fishing line and dug up some grubs. I then crawled out on the log and dropped one over the edge. BOOM, pulled up a 15" brown trout. in 5 minutes I had caught 8(1 for each of us). when the ROL's saw what I was doing they started digging a pit and gathering dry wood(not an easy task). we wrapped them up in elephant ears and laid them on a stick rack over the coals for a while. I think it was the best meal I had in that country. just ramblings of an old man thinking back in time. the second pic is of me(middle), a ROK radio operator, and an Army Pathfinder. Lee

About your photo, not fishing. I worked for several years with a guy that enlisted in the Air Force in the late 60's and got sent to Vietnam. He had a really low draft number, so he joined the AF as a radio repairman. He had heard about the cushy AF lifestyle. Nice barracks. No exposure to combat. Yada yada.

Got to Vietnam and they made him a driver/radio repairman for an Air Force ground FAC. Spent his whole year in combat attached to an infantry unit. Probably saw more combat than most Army guys. Life takes funny turns sometimes.

 

[Sistema1927]

Welcome home, Lee.