09-14-2014, 03:45 PM
You say your main reason to go is to catch salmon, and you want to catch a lot of fish. Find yourself a few good rivers with a Silver run, and time the trip for those. They readily eat flies and lures, they are very sporting when hooked, and they taste good if you keep some to eat. They're generally a late-season run, the last of the salmon to ascend the rivers and streams, usually in August and early September. Their numbers are plentiful in many areas. You might also get some late pinks and chums mixed in with them in certain drainages, along with rainbows and char. Halibut are available at the same time in coastal areas. Get on a charter boat and go weightlifting! Homer has the biggest ones.
If it were me, I'd spend my time in the southeast part of Alaska. Its less crowded, has lots of water, and is a shorter drive than Anchorage and points north/west of there. Prince of Wales Island, as Riverdog mentioned, would definitely be on the list. Along the mainland coast north of that you have islands and coastal communities with charter fishing. Ketchikan. Juneau.
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If it were me, I'd spend my time in the southeast part of Alaska. Its less crowded, has lots of water, and is a shorter drive than Anchorage and points north/west of there. Prince of Wales Island, as Riverdog mentioned, would definitely be on the list. Along the mainland coast north of that you have islands and coastal communities with charter fishing. Ketchikan. Juneau.
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