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fishing for dolly varden trout and accidentally hooked a salmon. The background noise is a raven.

fishing

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  • devils club. This large leaf plant is common and has nasty thorns all over it. This is one of many reasons why bush waking through the forest is nearly impossible.
  • looking up to forest canape under some Devils Club.
  • thicket of devils club.
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  • Path going through split bolder.
  • tree growing over old stump. This is very common. Eventually, the stump will rot away, and leave an arch or large hollow at the base of this tree.
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  • young bear (3 years old) at a cub rescue facility.
  • Pink salmon at the mouth of the Indian River. The pink salmon, along with a very few larger chum salmon, were gathering near the mouths of all rivers in Sitka. They are transforming to their spawning form and waiting for the right time to migrate up the rivers to spawn. These pink salmon, locally called humpys, because of the exaggerated humped back the male salmon get in their spawning form. The salmon at the bottom of the image is starting to grow this hump.
  • pink salmon jumping. They are always doing this. You see this all day every day when you are near the bay. The higher the density of salmon in a given spot, the more you see, but any place in the bay at any time, you will see a jump every now and then.
  • pink salmon jumping at Indian River mouth.
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  • Panicking pink salmon at the mouth of the Starragavan River. They often scare themselves into a panic when they are in tight schools in shallow water.
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  • Pink Salmon landed while fishing for dolly varden trout.
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