NEWSLETTER - THE 2008 SEASON ON THE EKALUK RIVER

YET ANOTHER SPECTACULAR SEASON ON THE EKALUK RIVER.

Possibly our best season yet. One thousand four hundred (1400) plus fish.
Many many big/huge fish - seventeen to nineteen pounds.
Ham (Hamilton) James landed a magnificent thirty-nine inch fish....

Once again, lots of familiar faces in camp;
Peter Harrison, Mike Blackshaw, Al Unger, Gordon Sim, John Elgee (aka Alaska-John), the Hatfield brothers...

FEEDBACK FROM GUESTS 2008;

If I don't show up next year again, that means i've expired!
Peter Harrison, Port Townsend WA
zapville@olypen.com

Best fresh water fishing in the world - my humble opinion
John O Elgee (aka Alaska-John), Wasilla AK
joelgee@yahoo.com
view album; http://picasweb.google.com/picasajohnster/Ekaluk2008Pics

Bill and Jack, many many thanks for the fantastic days you gave me on the Ekaluk river.
I'm still “on drugs” (a fishing high). It feels like I met God or something on the Ekaluk river!
Oystein Ursfjord, Tromso Norway
oystein_ursfjord@yahoo.no

I had a great time!
If you have any openings in the future, I would love to come back.
Ray Waller, WA
wallerfamily@cableone.net

I still can’t stop talking about what an awesome week it was!
Nick Kuchmak, Toronto, Ontario.
nkuchmak@gmail.com
view flickr album:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12319981@N02/sets/72157615928169804/

I had an absolutely fabulous time on the Ekaluk river.
After a week I felt as if all of you were all old friends.
David Laughlin, Ireland.
d.laughlin@btconnect.com

The Ekaluk is in it’s own unique league in the world series of freshwater fly fishing. I respectfully suggest you try it at least once before you die. That is if you are up to the challenge of a very special place run by very special people truly up there in the “Land of Beyond" that dream at the gates of the day.
(Click HERE to read article in full)
Gordon Sim, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, 2007
www.wherewisemenfish

The Ekaluk river is by far the best river on the planet for searun arctic char!
Many many thanks for a most fantastic time. A trip of a life time for an “adventurer” like myself! - 2006.
(Yngve Ask, photographer Scanout A/S Norway).
www.scanout.com

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THANK YOU ALL.

TOGETHER WITH YOUR FELLOW ANGLERS IN CAMP EKALUK, YOU HAVE SAMPLED A TRULY UNIQUE AND VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN SPORT FISHERY. YOU HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED BY THE SEARUN ARCTIC CHAR, ONE OF THE MOST FORMIDABLE , AND LITTLE KNOWN, FRESH WATER GAME FISHES OF THIS WORLD.

YOU HAVE HAD A BRIEF GLANCE OF THE STARK AND RUGGED BEAUTY OF OUR LAND - NUNAVUT.

IT IS OUR SINCERE HOPE THAT YOU HAVE ALSO GAINED SOME INSIGHT INTO THE LIFE, HISTORY, CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL HERITAGE OF OUR PEOPLE.

IT HAS BEEN OUR PLEASURE AND PRIVILEGE TO HAVE YOU AS GUESTS IN CAMP EKALUK DURING THE 2008 FISHING SEASON. YOU ARE NOW PART OF AN EVER EXTENDING EKALUK RIVER CLAN/FAMILY.

ON BEHALF OF OURSELVES AND OUR STAFF;
THANK YOU FOR COMING. FOR GENEROUS GRATUITIES SHARED WITH OUR STAFF, A SINCERE THANK YOU.

HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON AGAIN.

BILL & JESSIE LYALL,
(Owners, operators).
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