(Lynn Burkhead photo)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
The staccato pelting of wind-driven rain was impossible to ignore and wild storms like this one offered no mute buttons.
"So this is Alaska," I mused against the storm's noise while stripping a section of floating fly line from the reel attached to my Orvis eight-weight rod.
With the early morning monsoon pounding down upon our position on the Tsiu (Sigh-you) River, I burrowed deep into my rain jacket and Simms waders and put the fly line into the air.
Storm or no storm, I was here to fish.
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