Salmon and Float Planes and Bears, Oh #@*&%!

An epic Alaskan fly-fishing adventure

Jon Gluck
Aug 11, 2023

For Jon Gluck fly-fishing story completists (all three of you), I wrote a piece for Garden & Gun Magazine about an unforgettable trip to Alaska I took last summer. Come for the monster king salmon, arctic char, and rainbow trout, stay for the float planes, grizzly bears, and tear-inducing poetry.

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Jon Gluck
Jon Gluck

Written by Jon Gluck

Jon Gluck is the author of "An Exercise in Uncertainty" (Harmony/Random House, June 2025). Previously he was an editor at New York Magazine, Vogue, and Medium.

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