Aug 30, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
We head north to the Yukon in search of Arctic grayling, following the spring migration into some of the most beautiful water I’ve ever fished. But a late spring, lingering ice and stubbornly absent…
John David FraserHostAlexGuestAaronGuestI just feel like, you know, we came up at this time of year, we did our best guess, but the spring is like two weeks late.
Yeah, we're having a really slow, cold spring.
Well...
And the other thing we noticed, hey Aaron, yeah, the spring is late, but as we drove north towards the Kathleen River, it just, there was more and more snow in the ditches, in the water.
oh yeah we were wearing sandals and white horse and breaking ice and on the kathleen river yeah
not really
i think we recorded that
And we were going to make our way across Lower Kathleen Lake, which is a small lake.
Like, it's, you know, like...
kilometers long and no more than... half a kilometer wide six feet deep six feet deep yeah at the deepest yeah and uh so yeah we're gonna cruise all the way down there because the outlet of that lake uh is usually a real hot spot where i go fishing and like not a lot of people go back there right hence why i like to get up off the road as you've seen We seen another fisherman just this morning right off the road.
I just feel like, you know, we came up at this time of year, we did our best guess, but the spring is like two weeks late.
Yeah, we're having a really slow, cold spring.
Well...
And the other thing we noticed, hey Aaron, yeah, the spring is late, but as we drove north towards the Kathleen River, it just, there was more and more snow in the ditches, in the water.
oh yeah we were wearing sandals and white horse and breaking ice and on the kathleen river yeah
not really
i think we recorded that
And we were going to make our way across Lower Kathleen Lake, which is a small lake.
Like, it's, you know, like...
kilometers long and no more than... half a kilometer wide six feet deep six feet deep yeah at the deepest yeah and uh so yeah we're gonna cruise all the way down there because the outlet of that lake uh is usually a real hot spot where i go fishing and like not a lot of people go back there right hence why i like to get up off the road as you've seen We seen another fisherman just this morning right off the road.
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