These shares involve fishing context—set nets, rods, rivers, and lakes where the trip is about fish and something else shows up on the bank or in the dark.
Common threads are water edges, commercial or sport fishing, and parties who came for a harvest. Browse these shares if you want fishing-country encounters across Alaska.
Certain that his fishing captain was just trying to prank the new guy with local tall tales, Caleb arrogantly agreed to camp out in Rainbow Valley near Aleknagik in the late 1980s. His skepticism vanished on the third morning. While brewing cowboy coffee over the fire, Caleb felt a massive presence behind him. He turned to find an enormous entity crouched on all fours just 25 feet away, staring directly into his eyes. In a state of pure shock, Caleb let out a nervous laugh—which the creature immediately mocked back at him with a terrifying, booming baritone.
This share is an encounter experienced by a couple, Tom and Mary, while setting up their commercial set-net fish camp in Bristol Bay. Being the first to arrive for the season, they were alone on the remote beach when they began hearing strange, moose-like calls and noticing dark figures darting between the massive rocks along the shoreline. Their curiosity quickly turned into terror when they realized they were being actively stalked by at least three entities—one standing over ten feet tall, a smaller scraggly creature, and a massive black shape maneuvering along the bluff above them.
This encounter involved a trio on the Yentna River at the end of caribou hunting season in 2019 while trout fishing.
This encounter is from Eric, a fishing guide in the Aleknagik Lake area, that happened with a client in Pike Bay.
I share an experience by a photographer from June of 1999 at Nuyakuk Falls. He no longer does photography in Bristol Bay.
I recount a story from Brandon, a winter caretaker for a remote fishing lodge in the Bristol Bay area. As these encounters often do, Brandon's easy winter job was ruined and he no longer comes to Alaska.
