I lived in Ketchikan for 3 1/2 years. Traveled through Anchorage, Tok, Seward, Dillingham and Valdez. The fishing is awesome. I loved it there and I would go back in a heartbeat, but that is a long ways away from family. What the heck, I don't even like my family, what am I waiting for?
I recommend that everybody who has even the slightest desire to see the state, do it. It is unbelievable.