Alagnak River Fishing Report
This is an Alagnak River fishing report, coming from Alaska’s Katmai Lodge on the Alagnak River. This place is fantastic!
Last Friday Tom VanHorn, John Turcot, and I traversed the country in Alaska Air jets, arriving at the lodge late in the evening. The only good things about air travel are it’s relatively inexpensive and quite fast. And safe- let’s not forget that.
The lodge staff began our training program the next day- jet boat driving through the braids. Yes, it’s confusing, They also issued us tackle- G. Loomis fly rods with matching reels, #6 and #8. G. Loomis plug rods with Ambassadeur reels for king salmon fishing.
John Turcot’s first fish in Alaska was a lovely grayling, taken on a mouse fly.
On our second jetboat day we got to fish some. Tom had the hot rod, but we all caught fish, a mix of fat grayling and rainbow trout. Effective flies included the egg-sucking leech and the mouse fly.
Mr. Van Horn got several rainbow trout on an egg-sucking leech.
We had a freight day- thousands of pounds of good that arrived downriver on a barge had to be transported to the lodge and put away. Hard work, all of it.
Loading freight into one of our boats.
The rest of the week was spent on jetboat training and prepping tackle- spooling reels, building leaders, tying flies. We were issued and prepped our boats.
Even I caught a trout!
I looked for salmon all week and did not see one. There are rumors that they are starting to enter the river mouth, both kings and sockeyes. Maybe we’ll see next week.
I have seen a brown bear and a half-dozen moose.
Moose cross the river in front of us.
And that is this week’s Alagnak River Fishing Report from Katmai Lodge! Next week I will have some photos of the lodge itself.
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John Kumiski
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