During July 4th wkd a group of us set off to do a 5-day float on the Gulkana River NE of Anchorage.  The trip starts with a 3 mile crossing of Paxon Lake.  We used my 15 HP moter to get all of us across the lake to the effluent River.  Once at the river we pulled off to start fishing and as hoped, it was great fishing for grayling and rainbow trout.  I got to enjoy watching my boys casting, catching, reeling in fish over and over again.  Next I need to get them to remove the hooks out of the fish themselves.  Oh well, they’re only 5 yrs old.  Maybe next yr?  The first two days were sunny,  hot, and buggy too.  We made time to fish while we had good weather.  Then the rain came.