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[quote="rossjo"]Nice catch David.

Like those rod holders you have bolted across the back on the floor
of your bridge. Great idea. Did you make those?

Sitting here looking at a 65# King Salmon on my wall from
the Kanektok river ("the Tok") off the Bering Sea in West Alaska.
Do you do any King fishing?

I did make those rodholders, but had a guy that welds stainless, better than me, tig 'em up.

King fishing is my favorite. Usually catch 15 - 20 a year, along with 150 or so Silvers.

DAVIDLOFLAND wrote:

rossjo wrote: King fishing is my favorite. Usually catch 15 - 20 a year, along with 150 or so Silvers.

Nice - we caught 135 in 6 days when we were up there - avg 35# each.
It was mid June, and my father and I fished about 18 hours/day !

Do you fish the Kenai?

I don't fish the Kenai. We call that 'combat fishing', because of all the people. 25 years ago, I fished all the rivers, but now I fish strictly in salt water, often with no other boats in sight. Fish are spread thinner, but they're still bright chrome, and the overall experience is better for us. Besides that, my F-32 would scare too many people tooling along at 25kts on the Kenai River.

That said, if somebody goes to the trouble and expense of flying all the way up here for vacation. By all means, go where the fish are. It's always a blast, no matter how many people are around.

rossjo wrote:

DAVIDLOFLAND wrote:

rossjo wrote: King fishing is my favorite. Usually catch 15 - 20 a year, along with 150 or so Silvers.

Nice - we caught 135 in 6 days when we were up there - avg 35# each.
It was mid June, and my father and I fished about 18 hours/day !

Do you fish the Kenai?

Not a bad ratio of man hours fished / fish caught. Probably better than most people do, if they're not familiar with the drill. Were you guided?

Yes, with a great guide. Have to be out there, as you must stay on a sand bar in a tent all week with a guide outfit that has already established a camp. The Eskimos will fine you if you set foot on any of their Tundra land (which they own 100% of, except the small towns - Quinhagak, in this case).

Our guide took us out about 8-10 hours per day (ate shore lunches of fresh Salmon) and then went on our own a few hours every day. Huge Kings, Grayling and Rainbows.

Unbelievable fishing - and fantastic week with my father. Never forget it.

We've been fishing quite a bit down here in Sitka, but no pics to speak of really. The kings are starting to school up so we've picked up a few - the silvers should be showing up at the end of the month. We just used our subsistence halibut skate for the first time....totally skunked the first time (unless a sunstar counts),and then a lingcod the second time. So much for setting it close to town I know of a spot about an hour away that we will try next time.
Hopefully in the next few weeks I will have some photos to put up - all I have now are oodles of whales, eagles and sea otters

Not quite the same but we fish our F30 Sea raider on lake michigan with some good king fishing.

Nice King!

Making me hungry!

Excellent!