Exceptional King Salmon Fishing on the Alagnak River

The king salmon fishing on the Alagnak River is at times just about as good as any river in Alaska.  The Alagnak River does not have an accurate way of counting king salmon so just how many kings come up and spawn in the river annually is a guess.  I can tell you that we have weeks and days in most years where every customer is catching double digit numbers of kings daily, and for a 4 week period in July our king salmon fishing is amazingly consistent.

The Alagnak is one of the five major rivers of Bristol Bay Watershed.  It has one of the most diverse runs for all 5 species of Pacific salmon.  King fishing is still very strong there and despite all the negativity of king runs and the declines in Southeast Alaska and the famous Kenai River, we seem to be staying very steady with our runs on the Alagnak and we are doing all we can to keep it this way as sport anglers.  We at Angler’s Alibi have not allowed a guest to keep a hen king salmon ever, and now do not let any guest keep any kings other than small jack kings. (Jack kings are 1-year return kings that are 20” in length or less) We now release all males as well in hopes of preserving the runs we are so fortunate to have.  We do however harvest sockeye salmon during the king run in order to keep fish coolers full for a return flight home.

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