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Alagnak
Lodge
Flyout
Specials
Early Season Flyout Special
Our early season
flyout package in June offers as many as 5 flyouts during a week of fishing, as
well as opportunities to fish the Alagnak River for trout, and the chance to
spend a day or two of salmon fishing at the end of the month.
The early season rainbow fishery offers the best variety of rainbow
fishing in terms of fishing techniques.
After a harsh winter under ice with limited food supply, the
trout are
hungry, and not too selective about what they eat. These fish are feeding very
aggressively at this time, so a variety of flies and methods are effective.
Another advantage to the
early season fishery is that it is less well-known, which means less pressure on
the fish. When most fishermen think about rainbows in Alaska, the first thought
that comes to mind is late summer, big hogs with bulging bellies full of salmon
eggs at the end of their summer feast. Earlier in the season, the trout may be
slightly smaller on average, having not had their feast of eggs and salmon, but
the fish are aggressive, the fishing opportunities are excellent, and big fish
are still there to be caught.
For the dedicated
trout fisherman, this is an excellent time to fish Alaskan rainbows.
Late Season Flyout Special
Our late
season flyout package, starting in August and running through the end of the
season, gives you a great opportunity to fish a combination of silver salmon
as well as rainbows and other native fish such as grayling and char. This
combination of salmon and trout fishing is a fly fishermans dream.
Our typical late season flyout package includes 3 flyouts and 4 days
of fishing the Alagnak River, either the lower river for salmon or upriver
for trout.
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Rainbows are enjoying their annual late summer feast of
salmon eggs and flesh. At this time of season, we
mostly fly to the spawning grounds of the sockeye (red) salmon in
Katmai National Park, where rainbows are enjoying
their late summer feast of salmon eggs and flesh. The sockeye
runs are the largest numerically of all the salmon, with the run
annually on the Alagnak counting in the millions of fish. Sockeye
salmon are the most important food supply for the rainbows and in the
areas where the sockeyes spawn we find the best populations of
rainbows and the largest fish.
Pictured right, all the
shadows you see in the water are numerous sockeyes packed into a small
stream.
Hungry rainbows sit behind
each pod of sockeyes, eagerly waiting for any loose eggs to drift down to
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Pictured left is a nice
rainbow caught at one of our most productive flyout streams. Notice the dead
salmon scattered on the bank to the right. As well as feeding on salmon
eggs, the rainbows also feed on the flesh of the dead salmon, so flesh flies
can be very productive at this time of year. |
Providing the perfect complement to the trout fishing, silver salmon run
throughout the month of August and into September. In early August there is the
added bonus of the chum salmon run, and on even years the pink salmon.
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