"FISH ON!"
The beautiful Kenai Peninsula offers plenty of salmon fishing opportunities that are accessible via auto, float plane, boat, and hiking. We successfully fished for four of the five Pacific salmon species during our summer visits. Coho (silver) salmon run later in the season and we couldn't stay that long. We had fantastic success fishing from shore and wading on the Kasilof, Kenai, and Russian Rivers; and from kayaks and the shore in Kachemac Bay, Prince William Sound, Ressurection Bay, and Glacier Bay National Park.
On the 11-day Glacier Bay kayak trip, I remembered the fishing reels and lures, but I forgot the fishing poles. When I saw fish playing along the shore in the Beardslee Islands, I took out my reel and tied on a pink Pixie lure. My daughter and Mark scoffed and snickered as I spun the lure over my head like a cowboy roping a calf, and let the lure fly out into the salt water. They stopped laughing and started fighting over the other reel when I dragged a three pound sea-run Dolly Varden up onto shore. We all caught fish that entire trip. It was more fun catching them "primitive style" than if I had remembered the fishing poles.
Russian River Red "We don't need no stinkin' poles!" "Sockeye!"
Mark's first salmon. Boy, was it tasty! Lucky salmon!
King! The beautiful Russian River.
Click for Canoeing in the 'bush.'