Fly-out fantastic!… Up close and personal with the Brown Bears of Wolverine Creek: Big River Lake, West Side Cook Inlet “When the pilot said we’d see bears, I did not think they’d be five feet from the boat.” This is a typical reaction after visiting Big River Lake and the rocky mouth of Wolverine Creek. …
Fishing Humor Here we have added a new section devoted to fishing humor, just for the halibut. Please feel free to submit any suitable material for us to include here by writing to the webmaster. Jim had an awful day fishing on the lake, sitting in the blazing sun all day without catching …
Recipes for Cooking Salmon Readers are invited to share their favorite recipes by emailing them to the webmaster for inclusion on this page. Grilled Salmon Steaks Grilled Salmon Grilled Salmon with Dill
Taking Care of Your Catch The first step in preparing your catch is to keep it cold, either at water temperature or below. If you are fishing with a guide and catch salmon or halibut, the guide will place the fish in a fish well on the boat that will keep the fish at water …
The Kenai River supports all five species of North American Pacific salmon and 29 other species of fish. It provides a source of chinook, coho, pink, and sockeye salmon for recreational and commercial fisheries. Fishery biologists believe that some of the reasons why the river may be one of the most productive salmon rivers in …
King salmon put the Kenai on the map. The strain of salmanoid on steroids that returns to the Kenai’s glacial flows is unmatched in size anywhere on earth. Indeed a handful of rivers from Washington to Alaska are likely to punch out a few fifty pounders, maybe a sixty, maybe. The Kenai yields 50+ pound …
Dead Fish Mean Life for Alaska Rivers and Lakes Recent study uncovers 300 year history of salmon Salmon runs are notorious for being cyclical in nature. Returns can vary greatly from year to year and despite admiral efforts, state agencies have been unable to accurately predict what will happen once the snow melts and the …
Salmon & Steelhead Spawning and Salmonid Reproduction Salmon (derived from the latin term salmo which means leaper) have one of the most interesting life cycles of any animal on earth. Born in a fresh water stream and then migrating into the ocean to live in salt water, they migrate for thousands of mile before returning …
Wondering how much that salmon weighs and don’t have a scale? Did you release your trophy king and wonder how much it actually weighed? In Alaska, we are often fishing without any cell service, and have no access to a Salmon weight calculator app. Fortunately, the fish length to weight formula to estimate their weight …
Releasing Fish. Do it Right Whether you intend to catch and release fish or not, knowing how to properly release fish is a good skill for every angler to acquire. You may want to release a fish that is too small to keep, or you may have to release fish because of size or species …
