Brian Saunders, who owns the Anchor River Fly Shop, sat tying flies for the upcoming trout season across Cook Inlet. Saunders specializes in fly-in fishing and other curated adventures. There were no customers in his shop on the bank of the Anchor River. Dollie, his cattle-dog, dozed on the porch. Salmon season was closed due to poor returns.
If you are lucky and spend enough time around the shores of the Pacific, you may just score a free Yeti cooler. In what was an unplanned give-away, a cargo ship unintentionally lost cases overboard sending thousands of Yeti coolers a drift and now they are washing up on the shores of Alaska.
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