Alaska Bungee Fishing!

If you’re bored with the same old cast and retrieve style of fishing, heres something new you can try…

Alaska Bungee Fishing from Alaska Outdoors Television on Vimeo.

Nature’s Great Events: The Great Salmon Run on BBC

The Great Salmon Run it is truly an epic event. Millions of salmon fight their way upstream, returning to the river locations they were born. On the way they must not only contend with strong currents, but they must get past hundred of hungry grizzly bears!

“In another TV first, underwater cameras record the ingenuity and fancy footwork they use to collect dead salmon from the bottom of deep pools.”

The BBC has done it again, enjoy!

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Waterfall Resort Video Contest

The Waterfall Resort, one of Alaska’s premier fishing resort and home of the $100,000 King Of Kings fishing tournament, has a YouTube video contest that ends on July 31st.

The grand prize is a 3-night, 4-day, all inclusive fishing trip to Waterfall Resort in Alaska! So if a legendary trip to Alaska to fish for huge salmon and halibut has got you excited get out your camera or favorite editing suite and upload your video!

Combat Fishing

Combat fishing. Sounds pretty cool, and it does often result in high catch rates, but man it looks awful. Combat fishing is setting up a large group of fishermen on both sides of a river, spacing them no more then 10 feet apart. I guess the idea is that with all this pressure, some one has gotta catch a fish. It goes against one of the things I love most about fishing, seclusion. I always avoid fishing where other people are!

What do you think, good idea or bad idea?

Alaska Airlines’ Half Million Dollar Paint Job

Alaska Airlines is promoting the Alaskan seafood and fishing industry with a half million tax dollar paint job on a Boeing 737. Approximately half the United States’ total seafood catch comes from Alaska fisheries, considered the world’s leader in sustainable managment of their resources, and thanks to Alaska Airlines that seafood can be delivered to markets and restaurants in less than 24 hours.

Alaska Airlines today landed the world’s largest king salmon—stretching 120 feet and weighing in at 140,000 pounds—at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The “Salmon-Thirty-Salmon,” sporting the glimmering image of a wild Alaska king salmon, is among the world’s most intricately painted commercial airplanes. Complete with shiny scales, a dorsal fin and gills, the livery on the Alaska Airlines 737-400 passenger aircraft is the result of a dedicated team of 30 painters working nearly nonstop for 24 days.

The “Salmon-Thirty-Salmon” aircraft features an original design by Mark Boyle, a Seattle-based wildlife artist who is also a recognized leader in the livery design of commercial aircraft. The project required three times as many hours to paint as the normal livery, using Mylar paint to create an iridescent look and airbrushing techniques to make the fish painting appear three dimensional.

I guess this makes Nippon Airways Pokemon paint job look childish. Oh, right, Pokemon…

Link via Boing Boing