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![]() Sockeye or red salmon are usually the first species to return to the river each year. Best fishing is found from the last few days in June through mid July. Sockeyes easily outnumber the other species, and when you consider that their run lasts only a few weeks, you can imagine that when the sockeyes are in, the river is teeming with fish. For the 2004 season, the sockeye run on the Alagnak River was estimated by the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game to be an incredible 5.4 million fish! Sockeyes are a beautifully colored fish, which have a reputation of not biting as aggressively as other species. They are the most difficult species of salmon to catch and challenge even the most skilled fly-fisherman, yet with the help of our expert guides providing you with the right flies, offer great fishing to the less experienced angler. |
The Alaska Dept of Fish & Game
tracks sockeye salmon runs on the Alagnak River with a counting station about 15
miles upriver from our lodge.
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Jun 24
0
6
Jun 25
7,302
12
0
0
Jun 26
1,026
1,476
0
468
0
Jun 27
504
16,650
1,290
912
0
Jun 28
3,984
2,730
2,028
426
0
Jun 29
89,778
13,008
16,950
2,856
0
Jun 30
103,806
107,658
11,434
66,180
19,950
Jul 1
76,830
178,794
36,456
81,270
52,140
Jul 2
38,514
307,800
57,564
83,964
8,166
Jul 3
66,960
235,182
28,590
59,100
25,680
Jul 4
87,852
207,096
32,628
91,002
75,828
Jul 5
58,572
138,036
204,744
154,620
122,616
Jul 6
356,262
304,614
103,278
221,442
139,338
Jul 7
742,620
430,794
133,908
165,282
62,682
Jul
8
482,172
264,546
202,812
141,828
35,970
Jul 9
104,934
229,176
220,068
122,340
161,730
Jul 10
226,368
252,672
152,640
273,942
241,398
Jul 11
257,268
438,390
29,262
232,680
264,018
Jul 12
705,588
387,714
94,356
181,218
197,448
Jul 13
450,450
196,074
62,784
226,398
133,146
Jul 14
595,950
56,586
89,430
86,442
178,230
Jul 15
390,114
62,220
132,192
66,516
280,074
Jul 16
75,618
65,160
112,920
44,772
88,812
Jul 17
211,182
88,506
35,646
58,272
21,444
Jul 18
69,972
61,998
10,986
45,648
34,194
Jul 19
23,976
85,434
19,278
24,816
Jul 20
26,850
44,328
15,996
6,996
Jul 21
54,972
21,828
12,528
1,692
Jul 22
86,868
20,544
6,888
4,128
Jul 23
86,868
20,544
4,146
4,128
Total Run
5,396,592
4,219,026
1,773,966
2,466,414
2,180,502
Other Species:
King Salmon
Sockeye Salmon
Chum Salmon
Pink Salmon Silver Salmon
Rainbow Trout
Grayling
Arctic Char
Northern Pike
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and maintained by: Tony Starkie |