High and Dry Bristol Bay Silver Salmon
2015 was an extraordinarily low water year and kept the Bristol Bay Silver Salmon from entering many of our river systems until late season rains kicked in. As a result, fish concentrated into the last week of August and into September. Although there are always plenty of fish to be caught in the rivers, this led to some exceptionally hot late Silver action. In addition, many camps closed on the rivers due to difficult access in the mid and upper regions. Our floaters took advantage of the virtually evacuated rivers and meandered from top to bottom locating the concentrated silvers. Of course there was still plenty of action on rainbows, dolly grayling and char.
For 2017 follow the fishing reports and the weir counts to dial into some exceptional fishing. The Kanetkok, Goodnews, Kisaralik, Kwethluk, Arolik and other rivers in our network can prove to be exceptionally good all season if you keep an eye on it. We are already seeing low and clear conditions that may favor the flexible traveler.
A difficult to use strategy but often very rewarding strategy:
- prepare your group for travel based upon weather conditions and current salmon weir counts.
- Use 15 day forecasts and daily salmon counts
- airline flights may be $200-300 higher
- increased odds of a favorable weather pattern
- increased odds of “hitting the run”
- that makes for a truly memorable Alaska adventure.
Because Float Alaska trips leave 7 days a week and return on any number of days it is quite possible to find these events both inside and outside of peak salmon runs. I will work hard to get you on the river with 2-4 days notice. Grab 3 friends and talk about this strategy and see what happens this summer.
2017 fishing reports combined with 2017 low Airline fares up to 2 weeks before departure can make it happen easier than you can imagine
