Per fish counts available from the department, 471,000 sockeye have been counted so far this year — with 108,000 counted on Wednesday alone.
The silvers are starting to get their finny freak on at our famous Nick Dudiak Fishing Lagoon.
It was an “error in regulation” that would have opened the Ninilchik River to king salmon fishing on Wednesday.
Northern Kenai fishing report
The east side setnet fishery has been entirely closed in recent years to protect Kenai River king salmon
Kenai River personal use sockeye salmon dipnet fishery opens.
If any king salmon is caught while fishing for other species, they may not be removed from the water and must be released immediately.
Fish Week will take place July 16-19.
The action wasn’t as hot as in the past, but neither was the run.
Northern Kenai Fishing Report
Keep a heads-up approach when in traffic during the holiday — you don’t know who you’ll run into.
In regulation, the confluence is expected to be open from July 15 to Aug. 20.
Northern Kenai Fishing Report
Line launchers mimicking the scofflaw’s method is one of the reasons fish get spooked and quit biting.
Dipnetting will be allowed at all times until Aug. 7.
Sport fishers can harvest six sockeye per day and have 12 in possession starting Wednesday.
Did we not learn anything from the disappearance of the kings from the Kenai River?
The closure is in effect from June 23 through July 15.
The grizzled gentlemen have been coming down to Homer for over 35 years to ambush flats from their modest skiff in “secret holes” east of the Spit.
Northern Kenai fishing report for Tuesday, June 17.
