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Alaska Fishing Experience



Your week will begin at the King Salmon airport, where the Johnson family and guides will pick you up in one of their shuttle buses and bring you to your private, riverfront cabin. You will be served meals in the newly updated dining room with recipes from our head chef (Jim Johnson's lovely wife Phyllis). Her recipes can be previewed in her Alaskan Cook Book titled “Fishing and Feasting in Alaska”.

The lodge guide staff are licensed USCG captains that make their living as guides ‘year around. They have a fleet of comfortable jet boats to explore the waters of the Naknek River system in style. They include vacuum packing and freezing your catch as part of the package. They even throw in a trip to the world famous Brooks Falls and their photogenic bears at no extra charge.

Float plane day trips to other waters in Bristol Bay are available (at an additional charge) to catch rainbow trout, dolly varden, arctic char, grayling, pike and all 5 species of salmon.

We would love to have you join us for an Alaskan Adventure that you will remember for the rest of your life. Maybe you will even want to join our circle of good friends and guests that come back every year to experience the kind of week that only Alaska can provide. 
Fish Alaska Magazine identified the Naknek as Alaska's #1 destination for trophy rainbows! That is a big statement, but we think you will agree that the river can live up to the claim. The average fish will still be in the 2-5 pound range, but there will be a realistic possibility of bigger bows - up to 36 inches long - almost every day. If rainbows are your target fish, the best time is early and late season. The Naknek is a big river that holds big fish- quite often in fast water. It is a great river for a switch or spey rod. The best rainbow fishing is close to camp. The rainbows concentrate on salmon smolt and leeches migrating downstream to the ocean.

Our "Silver Slammin" week focuses on chasing Naknek River silver (coho) salmon and trophy rainbows. King season is closed, but hard-fighting silvers will be abundant and smashing a variety of colorful streamers. Rainbows will still be chasing smolts, but beginning to transition to feasting on eggs as Kings and sockeyes begin to spawn. Bead fishing on both the main river and side trips will be full swing and produce big numbers of rainbows, grayling, and colorful char. Stripping streamers will consistently produce silvers. Pike fishing continues in main river sloughs. Lots of bears around on all waters.

"Septembows" celebrates the near end of the Alaska fly fishing season and the opportunity to tangle with the largest rainbow trout of the year on the Naknek River. In a river famous for its trophy trout, this is time when “in the know” anglers show up. Each Fall the Naknek produces rainbows pushing 20 pounds. These “coastal rainbows” travel the Naknek River corridor between Naknek Lake and Bristol Bay feeding heavily all season. By the end of the year they are at peak size and in prime condition. If you love to fish streamers and swing flies on both single-hand and two-hand rods for giant trout, you need to experience "Septembows"!




 

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