Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Alaska Trip !?!?

Hey Matthew,  

Morgan's advise is spot on, you can't go wrong fishing near Soldotna on the Kenai.  There are a lot of guides in the area and a lot of the trips are by boat.  I have fished it with success in July when the big 50+ pound kings move in but I am not sure they are there in June. 

If you wanted to do some wadeable DIY fishing for kings in June with a fly rod, I would head south of Soldotna and fish the Kasilof, the Ninilchik and the Anchor Rivers and preferably during the middle of the week if you can swing it.  In June the Kings are starting to enter these streams and will hit an occasional egg sac but generally hit out of anger so don't be surprised if the local fly shop tells you to tie a glorified piece of yarn on your hook and swing often.  Getting it on the bottom is key as well.  

Go a little further south to Homer and you can probably get into some Halibut out of a boat in about 300 feet of water.  It's like reeling a car door off the bottom!  

-Jereme

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On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Matthew Longley <matthew.longley@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all!  My gf is a med student, and has two weeks free following her board exam (in June), which is about the only two week block she'll have free in years, so we have been plotting to take a big trip somewhere.  We are focusing right now on Alaska, which neither of us have visited before, to do some hiking and driving around.

Does anyone have any trip suggestions?  She will fish with me from time to time, but I'll probably only be able to get a couple of days on the water, so any trip needs to be focused on more than just fishing (though fishing is obviously the top of my list).  We're starting from scratch here, and so far have been looking at Denali Park or driving the Dalton Highway to the Arctic Ocean, stopping at interesting spots along the way, but are far from committed to anything.

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