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Best Chances...
Posted by Brian Richardson on Feb 16 2006
Your timing is only OK and your locality will be way off.
Timing is all right on Sheefishing, but winter will be well on its way in terms of temps, icing, snows, and troubles w/ logistics.
You must go North and off the usual road system.
Location is Western Arctic and the Kobuk is the Best by far.
Guided would be way more productive than unguided in addition more than likely save you time & money as well as gaining the benefits of insight, experience, and appropriate equipment when it's late fall in the Arctic.
Shore fishing is excellent in certain recognized opportune spots, but drifting (on a float trip) for them is the most productive. Big ones are caught on fish-like patterns and lures of chrome and/or blue. Big Fish up to 5-6 footers are the Female - smaller are male.
It's best to fish oversize flies or lures w/ really big single unbarbed hooks... they are a long, deep-mouthed and fragile fish that can bleed like crazy so this assures a hook set that is up in the vicinity of the mouth instead of "way" down inside. A long trimmed two-forked willow or alder branch makes for a good makeshift hook-out if they still swallow it down.
Sheefish are very good eating... somewhere between pan done Halibut and a rotisserie chicken. Three layers of foil, leave skin on, place in the fire… remove foil and skin (watch for the dime sized scales) and mmm mmm mmmmmmmm good!
I run a trip or two a year from the Headwaters of the Kobuk Walker Lake has big Char and Lakers, out of the Lake you are into monster Arctic Grayling up to 22inches and fat, then into Chum Salmon more giant Grayling and into colossal Sheefish country. Biggest Shee I have caught up there over the years is 5 inches shy of 6 feet! Shee/She was delicious!
Brian Richardson
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