Canada Fishing Info

Sisson, a 1998 graduate of New Philadelphia High, began working as a guide in 2002 after earning a business degree from Kent State University. At the end of the season, Sisson decided he wanted to do more than just hunting, so he moved back home and began working on his teaching license in social studies and government at Mount Union College in Alliance. When his best friend, Alex Oberholtzer of Minerva, asked if he wanted to go with him to try being a fly-fishing guide, Sisson began calling lodges in Alaska to see if there were any openings. With that experience behind him, Sisson took a job at Crystal Creek Lodge in King Salmon, Alaska, on the Naknek River, about an hour out of Anchorage. He explained that fishermen and hunters fly into Anchorage in World War II-era DeHavilland Beavers, then take smaller planes to King Salmon, where guides pick them up and fly them to the lodge. They fly in pontoon planes to rivers each day, and then take jet boats or rafts, or hike, to the fishing area where they can fish for record-sized salmon or trout. read more

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