Alaska Fishing with Mark Glassmaker
Guide to Alaska Fishing
Alaska Lodging Alaska
Salmon Fishing Alaska Halibut 1-800-622-1177
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Fly Out fishing in Alaska will elevate
your angling pursuit to an entirely different level. Since more than
90% of Alaska's most fabled fishing waters are only accessible via floatplane,
getting up in the air opens up a myriad of spectacular fishing options.
Alaska Fishing with Mark Glassmaker is proud to offer a number of day
and overnight trips to the West Side of Cook Inlet. For many, fishing
the remote waters of the main Alaska Peninsula is what they came to
Alaska to experience: boundless scenery, abundant wildlife and undisturbed
waters teeming with fish. 
We feel at least one day of fly out
fishing will help to round out the perfect Alaska Fishing vacation.
While one could fill weeks exploring the many angling options available
from the Kenai Peninsula, we always recommend our guests take the opportunity
to get up in the air and spend some time where there are no roads and
brown bears outnumber humans. 
With our own boats waiting for us when we arrive and the finest
floatplanes and pilots available on the Kenai Peninsula, we guarantee
a safe, comfortable high-quality experience you will not soon forget.
Description:
The Chuitna is a small, clear flowing river that can be waded across
in most locations. It is a combination floatplane/helicopter trip due
to the lack of floatplane access to the river. You will take a floatplane
from North Kenai to a lake nearby the Chuitna River. From here a helicopter
will transport you and your guide to a selected gravel bar on the river.
Your pilot stays nearby and will fly over periodically to see if you
would like to be moved to another section of the river.
Description: Big River Lake is
located on the West Side of Cook Inlet nestled against rugged coastal
mountains and the entrance to Lake Clark Pass. A glacially turbid body
of water, Big River Lake is relatively small and primarily fed by surrounding
glaciers, snowmelt and tannin upwelling. It then feeds Big River, which
makes a relatively wide but shallow and very silty 13-mile run to nearby
Cook Inlet. Wolverine Creek is a small, clear-flowing tributary stemming
from upper Big River Lake which falls less than 2 miles through a boulder-strewn
valley where it dumps into main Big River Lake. Wolverine Creek and
the East Fork of Big River receive the primary runs of Big River Sockeye..
Where it flows into the lake, it pushes the cloudy, glacial water back
and creates a sizable pocket of clear water. This reveals thousands
of fresh sockeye schooling in the shallows. Fishing is always very good
and anglers regularly retain their 3 fish limit and release many others.
You are not required to quit fishing once you keep your limit. We normally
use light spinning rods.
This clear pool at the outlet of Wolverine Creek is known as
Redoubt Bay and is frequented several times daily by numerous Brown
Bears. They attempt (with varied success) to catch fish from the Lake
but are most successful when the fish are running the rocky, shallow
creek making them easier to catch. The bears are completely tolerant
of nearby boats and anglers, content to pursue the fish, feed and move
on. Since we do not fish when the bears are in close proximity, bear
viewing and photography is always a regular component of this trip.