The Goodnews River Fishing Report from Spotted Tail 7/17/11

Well, I did end up fishing on Wednesday. We got off the DC-3, I got into waders, hopped in the boat, and a few minutes later I was releasing the salmon my fishermen were catching. It was chum-fest on fly! It was awesome to be back!

Thursday was more serious. Dr. Felix got a 20 pound plus king salmon on a pink bunny leech. We got two other, smaller kings on fly as well as a solid showing on the chums. It was a good day.

Dr. Felix with his king salmon. Think he's happy??

Thursday night I took son Alex out. He wanted a king salmon on fly. It took all of ten minutes for him to whack a 20 pound plus chrome hen on a pink bunny leech. She was released asap.

Alex K. with his first king salmon on fly. He may be happy, too.

The fish looks like Moby Dick.

Wayne and Anita Wheeler graced the boat on Friday. We went plugging for king salmon. The hot plug was a pink Wiggle Wart, the small one. We changed lures on the number two line all day and never got a strike. Every fish came on the Wart. The two biggest were about 25 and 30 pounds, very democratically one for each of them. I was glad, they are such nice people.

Wayne and Anita Wheeler with Anita's chrome king salmon.

The weather has been typical Alaska- grey skies, temperatures I the high 40’s, intermittent rain. We did get some sunshine on Saturday, when Art and Ray joined me. We had a chumtastic time, all on fly.

Finally today Steve and Cary joined me for some king salmon on plugs. We used the small Wiggle Warts, one pink, one orange. Both caught fish, although we did not hit the 20 pound mark today.

So it’s been a fantastic week here at Goodnews. The fact is every week here is fantastic. I look forward to fishing every day here.

Embrace simplicity.

Life is great and I love my work!

Life is short- go fishing!

John Kumiski
http://www.spottedtail.com/

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