Nick Varney

Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Techniques to lure picky silvers

You may have to experiment with set-ups to catch silvers with some skill.

 

Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: I should have known better

It all started off rather quietly.

 

Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Watching the fish roll in

The incoming tide was headed our way so we could restart our game of “Spot the violations” as the silvers rolled in.

 

Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Can things get even better?

The silvers are starting to get their finny freak on at our famous Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Hard luck at the fishing hole

The action wasn’t as hot as in the past, but neither was the run.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Fair weather expected for 4th of July weekend

Keep a heads-up approach when in traffic during the holiday — you don’t know who you’ll run into.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: Flashback dreams and the cold sweats

When summer arrives, every personage in the known cosmos suddenly seems to remember that they have kindred living in Alaska.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Kudos to anglers who adhere to fishing regulations

Line launchers mimicking the scofflaw’s method is one of the reasons fish get spooked and quit biting.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Old-timers cast their lines

The grizzled gentlemen have been coming down to Homer for over 35 years to ambush flats from their modest skiff in “secret holes” east of the Spit.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney
Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Tough times all around

The lagoon wasn’t exactly a hotspot for king-popping last week even for the couple of fish-stealing thug seals that showed up.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: It seems like a lifetime ago

A reader asked me if I remembered writing about a trip Jane and I took to New Zealand many years ago.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Reeling ‘Em In: Fishing yarns and crowded shores usher in summer in Homer

The Spit resembled an Indie 500 parking lot and the road was a whack-a-mole experience.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney
Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: Backtracking rusted memories

It’s amazing how something as innocuous as a simple phone call can set one trekking down their own trail of memories.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: It can’t be break-up ‘cause there was no winter

I meditate a lot. Sometimes up to several seconds at once. Last Monday was one of my deeper days and I decided to mull over… Continue reading

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: Winter ya gotta be kidding me

When is this erratic weather going to chill with the schizoid act?

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: Trouble brews with Super Bowl approach

This annual dementia is preceded by enough warning signals that some spouses have been known to charter weekend flights to remote Peruvian temples.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: The little tree that could

Each year I receive emails requesting a repeat of a piece I wrote years ago about being away from home on Christmas.

Nick Varney
Nick Varney

Unhinged Alaska: A butthead named Baster

Time now for the Baster saga that took place a few years ago

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