CJ Strikes Again!
I'll leave the details for CJ to report shortly, but on an early morning trip with legendary guide and friend Mark Tuter, CJ hooked up AND cooked up a nice fiesty Kenai River King on [...]
Scouting Trip!
On a quick Alaska scouting trip, these Happy Campers popped in to check out the Kenai River and fell in love with the natural beauty and fishing potential--not to mention the nice camping on the [...]
Alaska Trio Fish Tacos
A new recipe and creation is in the works, thanks to the bounty of Halibut, Sea Bass and Greenling harvested in our 1st saltwater trip of 2016! Tune back in, but in the meantime you [...]
Persistence Pays Off!
After days of chalky, muddy water due to high temps and snow-melt as well as some heavy rain that caused a rather anticlimactic opening to King Salmon fishing with the recent emergency order allowing retention [...]
Moose Rouladen
One of my all time favorite dinners in late fall or winter, aka the "Comfort Food Season", is Rouladen...beef, chicken, pork are all good, but pheasant, venison, elk and my absolute favorite Moose Rouladen can't [...]
Homer Halibut + Bonus Fish!
A last minute trip to Homer turned into a day of fishing that brought all sorts of creatures from the deep! TJ & CJ woke ME up for a change to start the day and [...]
King CJ !
Story to follow soon....but King CJ just landed and released a beauty on 6/16/16! It was a hot afternoon and my brother TJ and I were working for a friend downriver when he grabbed a [...]
Not One, But TWO Kenai River Kings!
....and the first King Salmon ever caught off our 2 year old floating dock! I finally figured out a way and I hope to show the video here soon on this page, but until then [...]
Halibut Caesar Salad
After years of enjoy our camp favorite "Smoked Salmon Caesar Salad", we took it up a notch one day when we had a taste for halibut and no croutons for our salad. We decided [...]
Newborn Moose Calf on the Riverfront!
This baby moose appeared suddenly from behind the woodshed by the campfire on the riverfront, surprising a guest that was heading to the river to fish, and delighting our guests from Happy Pension guest house [...]