Fly Fishing Sockeyes

My son and I now have different goals when we go to Alaska. He wants to fly fish and I want to shoot landscapes. More often than not I end up photographing him. Most are hero shots of him holding up the fish so this was special in that I was able to sneak up on him and catch him in the act. There is a lot of blown out areas on the water but I'm not concerned too much because this goes into the 'memory' folder of images.

Shot with an iphone.

The sockeyes are in their spawning color which you can see in the water. Actually, it's inaccurate to say that he's fishing for sockeyes. He's fishing for rainbows that feed on the spawn released by the sockeye salmon. Hooking a sockeye is actually undesirable because the fly rod is too flimsy to handle these fish. This is the Russian River on the Kenai Peninsula.