Alaska Fly Fishing Lodge: chum salmon

Our Alagnak River fly fishing lodge is situated on a bank overlooking the Alagnak River right in the middle of the tidewater section.  What this means is that as all five species of Pacific salmon enter the river daily on the tides, they are within a ten minute boat ride either up or downriver, depending on the height of the tide.  We, at our Algnak River fly fishing lodge, fish this stretch of water almost every day of the season.  We capitalize daily on the fresh salmon that are streaming into the Alagnak River.  From the first week of July, til the end of August, we can fish from our Alagnak...


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Our true Alagnak River fly fishing lodge, is almost full for the upcoming summer.  We only have spots left in the last few weeks of the summer.  These weeks, starting August fifth through the twelfth, and August twelfth through the nineteenth are the two primary silver salmon weeks.   With these weeks, we also experience the highest catch rates of the summer.  The reason is, we have the second run of the chum salmon, combined with the silver salmon run.  This means that the daily catch rates on the fly for salmon are as high as you can handle!  The screaming runs and power of the chum salmon,...


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