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Fisheries News

Welcome to our news center.  Here you will find:

• Updated fishing reports during the fishing season
• Fishing forecasts
• Articles of interest related to salmon, trout and steelhead fisheries around the world
• News articles related to fisheries resources in general.
• News articles related to the Kenai Peninsula in specific

Fishing Report, November 23, 2004:

As of 11/23/04, the Kenai Peninsula is experiencing a temperate beginning to winter. We have seen several reasonable snow storms with some accumulation although persistent warm temperatures and rain have melted most of it. Daytime temperatures have been in the mid to high thirties. On the southern Kenai Peninsula, both the Anchor and Deep Creek are both flowing at moderate to high levels with good clarity.

There is a great deal of shore ice and debris from cold weather a few weeks prior and flooding caused by ice dams. Both steelhead and dolly varden remain active and fishing is rated as fair on both the middle and lower sections of the Anchor River and Deep Creek. The Ninilchik River remains largely frozen and unfishable.

The Kenai is low but still navigable above Bings Landing. Trout fishing both below and above Skilak Lake is still a viable option, weather depending. Trout are not highly concentrated but larger fish are found just below spawning silver salmon. Good numbers of both dark and bright silver salmon are present although their season closed November 1.

Fishing Report, October 20, 2004:

As of October 20, Kenai Peninsula fisheries continue to provide excellent angling opportunities for those willing to put in their time on the water. The Kenai River is still seeing a fair number of silver salmon after one of the strongest returns of coho since ADF&G began estimating escapement. Silver salmon season on the Kenai normally closes the last day of September but was extended this year through the end of October due to the large return. Rainbow trout and Dolly Varden fishing on the Kenai, both above and below Skilak Lake, remains very good with a number of larger fish being caught. Fish are being taken on both flesh patterns and painted beads.

 

 

Dan Mendenhall with a beautiful Kenai Rainbow caught in late September.

 

 

 

Steelhead trout fishing on the lower Kenai Peninsula Rivers has been very steady with large number of fish present in the Anchor River, Deep Creek, and the Ninilchik River. These fisheries have been most productive just after rain storms although currently all rivers are low and clear and fishing has slowed. Look for more fish to enter these rivers just after the next big rain or before the river freezes for winter.

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Rinker readies a nice fall steelhead for release.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck on the water and great fishing!

Mark Glassmaker

• National Weather Service
• Alaska Department of Fish and Game Fishing Reports

News Articles of Interest:

• Do silver and king salmon interbreed?  Genetic studies will determine
• Escaped farmed salmon found in Alaska
• Atlantic salmon considered an invasive species
• An innovative solution to protect salmon in Scotland
• Dead salmon are good for the environment
• NOAA enforcement can be severe
• How many halibut did they sell before getting caught?
• Advisory board tackles Kenai River issues
• KRPGA Guides take Advisory Committee Seats
• Proposals sent to Fish and Game
• Bill would remove politics from salmon
• KRSMA to take different angle on issues
• Fishing guides boost effort for certification 
• Fishing guide academy gets closer to reality 

 

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