Ladies and Gentlemen, I have caught my first salmon in Alaska! Yesterday evening, fishing the Russian River with some guys from work, I landed an ~8 lb red salmon. And tonight, we had some salmon steaks! Now that's fresh fish - 24 hours from swimming to in my belly!

At the end of our fishing adventure, I was moseying over to the fish cleaning table (located in the river so that you can clean your fish and toss the guts amongst the raging rapids), and one of my bros from work said, "Hey Dunn, you might want to come back here for a minute," summoning me from the far bank. Well, what do you know--a LARGE brown bear and her two cubs come right up the river. We stayed safely along the opposite bank. And let me tell you, momma bear owned that river. Everyone moves out of her way. We watched her grab a salmon and retreat into the woods, then moved a half mile upriver to clean my fish.

Anyway, I've loaded up some pictures of the bear in the Russian River Fishing section of the pics page.