COHO, CHUM, SOCKEYE & PINK SALMON DESTINATIONS
ALASKA
Alaska Peninsula
It is like going back in time to when fishermen had just discovered Alaska as a sportfishing paradise: incredible numbers of fish, wild untouched nature, beautiful scenery awithout a trace of civilization.
Ayakulik River, Kodiak
The best salmon river on the island of Kodiak. This is an ideal destination to sight fish for kings or cohos on the fly. It also produces some of the largest cohos in Alaska. Later in the season it also gets a decent run of steelhead. One of the extra benefits is that you will most certainly have the chance to do some bear watching.
Bearclaw Lodge, Bristol Bay
Bearclaw Lodgeon the shores of Lake Aleknagik in one of the most productive salmon fishing areas in the world. It is a place of indescribable beauty and overwhelming abundance. It is a place where you can experience such a complete and varied fishing adventure, surrounded by such vibrant nature and incredible landscapes.
Kenai River
The mpst popular river in Alaska, easily accesible by road from Anchorge. The Kenai offers great fishing for coho salmon, trout and dolly varden in stunning surroundings. It also receives one of the largest runs of sockeye salmon in the world with returns of up to over 4 million sockeyes .
Kvichak River
The Kvichak is one of North Ameica’s legendary trout rivers. The rainbow trout become huge here gorging on the eggs and flesh of the millions of sockeye that return to the river every year to spawn.
Naknek River
The Naknek is an extremely versatile river which offers excelent fishing for sockeye and silver salmon as well as huge rainbow trout. In fact, it is one of Alaska’s best rivers for trophy size rainbow trout. Other species available include pink and chum salmon and a few kings as well as dolly varden and grayling.
Nushagak River
With an average annual run of about 100,000 king salmon, it is without a doubt one of the best destinations in the world to fish for this species. It is especially well suited to fishing fo kings from a boat with bait or plugs.
Unalakleet River
The Unalakleet River is a remote destination on the western coast of Alaska, just south of the Bering strait. It is a great river for those looking for great fishing away from the crowds. The silver salmon fishing is tops.