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The Situk River is highly regarded fly fishing destination [3] by many, with anglers traveling to Yakutat specifically to fish this river. Spring steelhead trout, sockeye salmon, and coho salmon can be caught here. Access is from the upper crossing on Dangerous River Road or from a second road that accesses the river near the ocean mouth.
Approaching Yakutat on the Alaska Marine Highway, June 2012 Yakutat in the 1940s. The original settlers in the Yakutat area are believed [citation needed] to have been Eyak-speaking people from the Copper River area. Tlingit people migrated into the region and the Eyak were assimilated into the tribe before the arrival of Europeans in Alaska ...
Alsek River (/ ˈ æ l ˌ s ɛ k /; Tlingit Aalseix̱' ) is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. [3] It enters the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay. Most of the Alsek River's basin is within protected wilderness areas and National Parks. [2]
This is a List of rivers in Alaska, which are at least fifth-order according to the Strahler method of stream classification, [1] and an incomplete list of otherwise-notable rivers and streams. Alaska has more than 12,000 rivers , and thousands more streams and creeks . [ 2 ]
Dry Bay, Alaska is a landform and a summer fishing community located on the northeast shore of the Gulf of Alaska, 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Yakutat. [1] Dry Bay lies along the Alsek River , one of the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park .
The Taku is the Southeast Alaska's top salmon-producing river. Data from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game [ 10 ] notes that nearly 2 million wild salmon return to the river annually, including up to 100,000 Chinook salmon (king salmon), 350,000 sockeye salmon (red salmon) and 400,000 coho salmon (silver salmon), 50,000 chum salmon (dog ...
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
Map of Yakutat Bay Glacier-carved mountains near Yakutat Bay. Yakutat Bay (Lingít: Yaakwdáat G̱eeyí) is a 29-km-wide (18 mi) bay in the U.S. state of Alaska, extending southwest from Disenchantment Bay to the Gulf of Alaska. "Yakutat" is a Tlingit name reported as "Jacootat" and "Yacootat" by Yuri Lisyansky in 1805.