08-05-2009, 08:53 PM
The Russian river is very accessible you can pretty much drive right up to it. Being that its so accessible means combat fishing though and when I say combat fishing its just like the horror stories you hear about, hooks flying everywhere and some not so smart people around, mix that in with some pretty aggressive brown and black bears and your in for some real fun. Now the Russian river has some pretty strict rules with what you can use as far as hook gap and sizes. There is also a 3 fish limit but sometimes the fish are in so thick that they raise the limit (like the pic shows) and you can catch 6 a day 12 in possession. The drive to the Russian is only about 2 hours from Anchorage so we go down at like 8or 9 at night get our first six and then after midnight we get our additional six. The Russian may be my favorite place to fish up here. Just some FYI there is a web site called AOJ and it has a lot of info for fishing up here highly recommend checking it out. Here is another pic to make you excited, this is downtown Anchorage (Ship Creek) and believe it or not this is a small one out of this creek.
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