Interior Alaska fishing guides and lodges

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Arctic Grayling fishing in Alaska

Grayling are not picky in their dining habits, but drifting flies that mimic insects, especially mosquitoes, mayflies, stone flies, and caddis flies will allow you to target their preferred dining delight. At times, especially during the salmon runs, grayling will feast upon the eggs of salmon returning to their spawning beds. Determine the season, hatch and water conditions then cast away have some fun.

Fishing for Grayling: The tendency of grayling to eat almost anything is well known to the avid grayling fisherman. Any fishing technique, including bait, small lures, and flies, work excellent when grayling are on the menu. Grayling are especially popular with fly fishing for their eagerness to rise to a dry fly. Fly fishing techniques for grayling are similar to those used for any of the trout group. Grayling are often easy to catch, but, as with other species, the most skilled anglers with the best knowledge of grayling feeding patterns and how to fish the water will be most successful. Generalized insect imitations such as the dry fly "Adams" and the "hare's ear nymph" are usually effective patterns for grayling. However, when feeding on a specific insect, grayling can be very finicky and the angler is challenged to "match the hatch".

The largest grayling fisheries occur along the road system in Interior Alaska. However, larger-size fish are generally caught in less heavily fished areas. The current Alaska state record grayling is 23 inches long and weighed 4 pounds 13 ounces.

Arctic Grayling Guide Service P.O. Box 83707 Fairbanks, AK 99708 Phone: (907) 479-0479 Website: Arctic Grayling Fishing provides guided and unguided fishing trips to remote areas in Interior Alaska. Provides fishing in several clear water streams located approximately 60 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. This area offers some of the best wilderness fishing in interior Alaska and is conveniently located for both Denali National Park and Fairbanks visitors. A jet boat ride is included with all trips, as this is the only method to access this remote area.

Historic Alaska Fishing Lodge Gakona Lodge & Trading Post Mile 2 - Tok Cutoff Rd. Gakona, Alaska 99586 Phone: (907) 822-3482 Website: Gakona Fishing Lodge/ Gakona Lodge and Trading Post located about 1/2 way between Anchorage and Fairbanks at mile 2 on the Tok Cutoff. Historic Lodge and Trading Post in Gakona Alaska is located at the confluence of the Gakona and Copper River. 9 Room lodge, Cabins, Carriage House Restaurant, and Trapper's Den Tavern allow for a truly alaskan experience. Offers very comfortable accomodations for the hunter, those fishing and the weary traveler. Alaska salmon fishing, King Salmon, Sockeye and silver salmon, Arctic Grayling, Rainbow Trout.

Grayling have adapted many tactics for life in what is often a harsh Arctic environment. Grayling can be highly migratory, using different streams for spawning, summer feeding, and wintering over. Winter generally finds grayling in lakes or the lower reaches and deeper pools of medium-sized rivers such as the Chena and Gulkana, or in large glacial rivers like the Tanana, Susitna, and Yukon. Their tolerance of low dissolved oxygen levels allows grayling to survive the long winters in areas where many other fish would die from lake of oxygen. With the coming of spring, grayling begin an upstream migration to spawning grounds. Like salmon, grayling faithfully return every year to the same spawning and feeding areas as they were born. Grayling spawn for the first time between the age of 4 or 5 years and a length of about 11 to 12 inches.

About one month after spring breakup, adult grayling begin their post-spawning migration to their summer feeding waters. Depending on where they have spawned, the distance traveled can be up to 100 miles. By the middle of the Arctic summer, grayling will separate out within a stream according to age and maturity. The older adults will be found in the upper reaches of river and stream systems, the sub-adults in the middle, and the juveniles in the lower ends. Grayling fry hatch about three weeks after spawning, and they tend to occupy the quieter waters near where they were hatched. In the early fall, grayling again begin a unhurried migration downstream to reach winter habitats.