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Aniak River
Posted by Michael Strahan on Feb 15 2006
Willi,
I've floated the upper Aniak from Aniak Lake down to the main river and can tell you from personal experience that you really better know what you're doing on that river. You'll enter the timber about ten miles downriver from the lake and that's where the trouble starts. We did, in fact, burn a lot of chainsaw gas on that river, owing to the numerous logjams, sweepers and strainers we encountered. If you're the first party through, that's what you're in for, make no mistake about it. Every spring the river scours out the banks and more trees end up in the channel, plus the river cuts new channels through the woods. You'll do a lot of portaging and downstream scouting on foot, or risk your boat, gear and life on speculation that there's no danger around the next blind curve.
If you want a safe, relaxing, relatively uncrowded float for silvers and rainbows, go to Dillingham and fly out to Goodnews Lake. I floated the Goodnews River last summer and had a ball. We didn't see anyone until we got to the lodge down near the mouth. Fish? You won't find better anywhere. And that includes the Aniak River.
-Mike
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