joe b. wrote:
Most folks report that as long as they stay under the Alaska possession limit and identification requirements they haven't had any problems passing through Canada with their salmon.
Others will have a processor in Alaska, in the area where they caught their fish, wrap, cut and flash freeze the salmon for air shipment home, to where ever that might be. Expensive but generally trouble free way to get the fish home, especially if you don't want to mess with carrying a small freezer in your RV. Some of the private processors will store your fish frozen till a to be shipped date or when you call them to request shipment. The Fred Meyer store, among many others on the Kenai sell freezer boxes (insulated cardboard boxes) that you can use to ship them yourselves. Pack the fish frozen in the boxes, add some dry ice and take it to the Anchorage airport for immediate shipment to some person at your home location to receive them is another option. There was a processor, for lack of a better word, that would brine and smoke your fish for you and ship it to you when that process was finished.
Money is the solution to all your fishing issues. LOL
Some have reported that by plugging in their small chest freezers every night, it will stay frozen all the next day. Some will run a small generator or if they have a built in generator in their RV, will run that to keep the freezer at the temp they want.
Probably a good idea to "declare" the salmon to the Canadian agents at the border where you enter Canada so there is a record of where the origin of the fish originated, this being Alaska. Should be smooth checking out of Canada having done all this.
At the Russian and other combat fishing zones, I often see many folks, most often urban mountain men and women from Anchorage, with small chest freezers in the back of their pickups or Suv rigs running a generator to keep it frozen. Sometimes the parking lot at the Russian sounds like a generator test facility, mostly the cheap noisy type generators. Not seen a great deal of sport fishing on the Kenai in the last 20 years or so, mainly meat hunters, intent on filling their freezer with fish for the upcoming winter meals. Just a different attitude usually than those there for the experience, the fresh air, trying to prove they are smarter than a fish, etc.
on the Kenai many years ago. Took this fish home and smoked it myself. This was drift fishing on the river with a fly rod.
That is an awesome picture!
I am an avid fly fisherman and have two boys aged 10 and 12 and we get on the western rivers here a lot. Trout is regular target but have angled for Atlantic salmon too.
Most folks report that as long as they stay under the Alaska possession limit and identification requirements they haven't had any problems passing through Canada with their salmon.
Others will have a processor in Alaska, in the area where they caught their fish, wrap, cut and flash freeze the salmon for air shipment home, to where ever that might be. Expensive but generally trouble free way to get the fish home, especially if you don't want to mess with carrying a small freezer in your RV. Some of the private processors will store your fish frozen till a to be shipped date or when you call them to request shipment. The Fred Meyer store, among many others on the Kenai sell freezer boxes (insulated cardboard boxes) that you can use to ship them yourselves. Pack the fish frozen in the boxes, add some dry ice and take it to the Anchorage airport for immediate shipment to some person at your home location to receive them is another option. There was a processor, for lack of a better word, that would brine and smoke your fish for you and ship it to you when that process was finished.
Money is the solution to all your fishing issues. LOL
Some have reported that by plugging in their small chest freezers every night, it will stay frozen all the next day. Some will run a small generator or if they have a built in generator in their RV, will run that to keep the freezer at the temp they want.
Probably a good idea to "declare" the salmon to the Canadian agents at the border where you enter Canada so there is a record of where the origin of the fish originated, this being Alaska. Should be smooth checking out of Canada having done all this.
At the Russian and other combat fishing zones, I often see many folks, most often urban mountain men and women from Anchorage, with small chest freezers in the back of their pickups or Suv rigs running a generator to keep it frozen. Sometimes the parking lot at the Russian sounds like a generator test facility, mostly the cheap noisy type generators. Not seen a great deal of sport fishing on the Kenai in the last 20 years or so, mainly meat hunters, intent on filling their freezer with fish for the upcoming winter meals. Just a different attitude usually than those there for the experience, the fresh air, trying to prove they are smarter than a fish, etc.
on the Kenai many years ago. Took this fish home and smoked it myself. This was drift fishing on the river with a fly rod.
Others will have a processor in Alaska, in the area where they caught their fish, wrap, cut and flash freeze the salmon for air shipment home, to where ever that might be. Expensive but generally trouble free way to get the fish home, especially if you don't want to mess with carrying a small freezer in your RV. Some of the private processors will store your fish frozen till a to be shipped date or when you call them to request shipment. The Fred Meyer store, among many others on the Kenai sell freezer boxes (insulated cardboard boxes) that you can use to ship them yourselves. Pack the fish frozen in the boxes, add some dry ice and take it to the Anchorage airport for immediate shipment to some person at your home location to receive them is another option. There was a processor, for lack of a better word, that would brine and smoke your fish for you and ship it to you when that process was finished.
Money is the solution to all your fishing issues. LOL
Some have reported that by plugging in their small chest freezers every night, it will stay frozen all the next day. Some will run a small generator or if they have a built in generator in their RV, will run that to keep the freezer at the temp they want.
Probably a good idea to "declare" the salmon to the Canadian agents at the border where you enter Canada so there is a record of where the origin of the fish originated, this being Alaska. Should be smooth checking out of Canada having done all this.
At the Russian and other combat fishing zones, I often see many folks, most often urban mountain men and women from Anchorage, with small chest freezers in the back of their pickups or Suv rigs running a generator to keep it frozen. Sometimes the parking lot at the Russian sounds like a generator test facility, mostly the cheap noisy type generators. Not seen a great deal of sport fishing on the Kenai in the last 20 years or so, mainly meat hunters, intent on filling their freezer with fish for the upcoming winter meals. Just a different attitude usually than those there for the experience, the fresh air, trying to prove they are smarter than a fish, etc.
on the Kenai many years ago. Took this fish home and smoked it myself. This was drift fishing on the river with a fly rod.
