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  • If you want to do a jet-boat trip, Mahay's Riverboat Services will take you to Clear Creek, where you can catch 100 fish a day ($55 per adult; 800-736-2210; mahaysriverboat. com).

    A Budget Guide to Fishing Southern Alaska's Late Summer Salmon Run 2007

  • Later in the season you can fish much closer to camp—in the upper river or in Painter Creek itself—but the program for the first of the kings is to jet-boat miles downriver to the sub-Arctic coastal plain within a few miles of the ocean, where the fish could begin to come in on any high tide.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Later in the season you can fish much closer to camp—in the upper river or in Painter Creek itself—but the program for the first of the kings is to jet-boat miles downriver to the sub-Arctic coastal plain within a few miles of the ocean, where the fish could begin to come in on any high tide.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • The rafters played the trump card of environmental debate, asserting that jet boats disrupt the spawning salmon; the jet-boat guides cleverly retorted that by taking people up and down the river in a day, they eliminate the need to camp along the banks.

    No Room, No Rest 2008

  • Later in the season you can fish much closer to camp—in the upper river or in Painter Creek itself—but the program for the first of the kings is to jet-boat miles downriver to the sub-Arctic coastal plain within a few miles of the ocean, where the fish could begin to come in on any high tide.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Later in the season you can fish much closer to camp—in the upper river or in Painter Creek itself—but the program for the first of the kings is to jet-boat miles downriver to the sub-Arctic coastal plain within a few miles of the ocean, where the fish could begin to come in on any high tide.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • Rumsey shipped out for London with his great idea: a steam-powered jet-boat.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Rumsey shipped out for London with his great idea: a steam-powered jet-boat.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • We are also early leaders in both innovation and market share in the jet-boat business, and we have recently launched a unique product, the Neighbourhood Electric Vehicle, for an emerging market.

    Competing in the Twenty-First Century: Our Challenges 1996

  • He waited for the outer portal of the ship's air lock to be opened and then sent his tiny spacecraft into a shallow dive, applying his braking jets expertly to bring it to a dead stop inside the jet-boat deck of the converted space liner.

    The Space Pioneers Carey Rockwell

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