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Partnership Produces ‘Ultimate Team Fishing’

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Thorne Bay, Alaska (April 15, 2010) — Alaska’s Boardwalk Lodge has teamed up with Beyond Meetings & Incentives and Basketball Hall-of-Famer, Rick Barry, to introduce a unique incentive travel package: Ultimate Team Fishing. This experience will be hosted by Rick Barry at the Orvis-endorsed adventure lodge on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.

The event is primarily designed for organizations to promote relationship building with colleagues, teach teamwork, and improve communication skills in the workplace. The intended outcome is to create more enjoyable working relationships, as well as help team members learn more about themselves. The experience will be tailored to fit the group or organizational culture. Equally important, this trip will reward participants with an opportunity to create lifetime memories in an Alaska wilderness setting.

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Categories : Alaska Fishing, Lodge News

Tags : Alaska Fishing Lodges, Alaska Fly Fishing, Alaska Freshwater Fishing, Alaska Halibut Fishing, Alaska Salmon Fishing, Alaska Saltwater Fishing, Best Fishing Lodges, Corporate Fishing Retreat, Employee Incentive Trips, Executive Fishing Retreat, Orvis Fly Fishing, Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska

Fishing Raven’s Island

By Alaska Boardwalk Lodge

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Virginia Sportsman Magazine

March 2006 – By King Montgomery

That first evening in Alaska after a long day in airplanes, my wife and I took our places at the comfortable dinner table, and gazed down at a handwritten menu from Chef Bryan Vietmeyer and his amiable kitchen crew. Below the “Welcome King & Elizabeth” note, this simple document gave us an indication of what the week ahead would bring. It read:

Butternut Squash Bisque with Crab
Wilted Leaf Lettuce Salad w/ Honey-Mustard Bacon Vinaigrette
Pepper Seared New York Steak w/Bourbon-Molasses Jus
Herb Roasted Potatoes and/or Parmesan

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Categories : Alaska Fishing, Fishing Articles

Tags : Alaska Fishing Articles, Alaska Fishing Guides, Alaska Fly Fishing, Best Fishing Lodges, Chum Salmon Fishing, Orvis Fly Fishing, Pacific Salmon Fishing, Pink Salmon Fishing, Prince of Wales Island, Silver Salmon Fishing, Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska’s Prince of Wales Island offers access to prime deep water species

By Alaska Boardwalk Lodge

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Sportsman’s Atlas

Spring 2005 – By Chris Shaffer

Guided halibut fishing off Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
Earl Pullum doesn’t tell fish tales. When asked why anglers should fish the saltwater off Prince of Wales Island rather than dozens of other popular Alaska destinations he pondered for a few minutes while removing the hook from a 15-pound yelloweye pulled from the Clarence Strait.

“Because of that,” said Pullum, pointing toward a 15-foot cloud of spray sprouting up from a whale 50 yards from the boat. Pullum is the lead guide at Boardwalk Lodge, located in Thorne Bay. “I’m not going to lie and tell you that we offer better fishing than other places in Alaska, because we don’t. You can catch fish anywhere in Alaska. I’d fish here for the experience.”

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Tags : Alaska Fishing Articles, Alaska Fishing Lodges, Alaska Halibut Fishing, Alaska Salmon Fishing, Alaska Saltwater Fishing, Best Fishing Lodges

Fish Who’ve Never Seen a Fisherman

By Alaska Boardwalk Lodge

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

Sportsman’s Atlas

April 2004 – by Chris Shaffer

Kenji King couldn’t see the river, nor could he hear it when he pulled his mid-’90s model Suburban onto a small pullout on the narrow, unmaintained, pothole-clogged dirt road. King had traveled an hour in the 4-wheel-drive vehicle now painted with mud and scratched by overgrown trees. He hadn’t seen another car, bike or person, only bald eagles and deer.

King was on the clock. The fishing guide for Boardwalk Lodge (800-764-3918; www.Bordwalklodge.com) was out to find a steelhead that had never seen a human. It was his sixth day in a row to accomplish this feat. He felt no pressure.

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Categories : Alaska Fishing, Fishing Articles

Tags : Alaska Fishing Articles, Alaska Fishing Guides, Alaska Fishing Lodges, Alaska Fly Fishing, Alaska Salmon Fishing, Alaska Steelhead Fishing, Best Fishing Lodges, Orvis Fly Fishing

The Angling Report

By Alaska Boardwalk Lodge

Thursday, November 15th, 2001

By Robert Steele

I cannot say enough about the extraordinary friendliness of the staff there and especially the owners. Douglas and Donna Ibbetson. Boardwalk only takes 12 guests at a time [expanded to accommodate 19], so the service is very personal. My guide was friendly and helpful without being overbearing, and my wife was quite comfortable with everything and was treated extremely well.

As for the fishing, we caught four species of salmon (chum, pink, sockeye and silver) in the rivers, as well as numerous Dolly Varden and a few rainbows. At times you could almost walk on the chums, they were so abundant. We reached the rivers by driving over rutted lumber roads for 30 to 60 minutes each day.

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Categories : Alaska Fishing, Fishing Articles

Tags : Alaska Fishing Guides, Alaska Salmon Fishing, Best Fishing Lodges, Orvis Fly Fishing

Off the Boardwalk

By Alaska Boardwalk Lodge

Sunday, February 15th, 1998

Business Traveler

February 1998 – By Lori Lincoln

All addicts have their own code, so at first I was baffled listening to the anglers debate the merits of matching the hatch versus purple egg-sucking leeches and woolly buggers while we snacked on fresh oysters.

I’d only arrived at Boardwalk Lodge by float-plane a half an hour before, and already I was caught up in a heated debate about why steelhead bite or don’t. Over pre-dinner cocktails, I’d met a few frustrated fishermen who had logged hours on the local rivers and had nothing more to share than tales of nips on their flies.

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