My favorite species of salmon to fish for are silver salmon. In my opinion, they are the most aggressive and most spectacular fighting fish that swims in the Kenai River. There’s another thing I like about silver salmon. Year in, year out, it’s our most consistent fishery. Well, that is until this year. It was tough …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/22/24
With an up and down fall salmon run, I was really happy how the season ended. I spent the final day with my college roommate and his friend swapping stories. The bonus was they caught their limit of silver salmon. I would describe the trip as the Kenai River version of a walk-off home run. Without further ado, it’s …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/15/24
Uff da, part two. This past week was a lot like the previous week. Long days on the water with only a few willing biters to be found. Patience was the key word. Luckily, the people who were with me had plenty of it. The first group of the week, Jim, Rob, and Tony, were newcomers to the Kenai River. I had a lot of fun getting …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/8/24
Uff da. There is no better Scandinavian phrase that describes the silver salmon fishing this past week than uff da. We started the week off finding two or three silvers a day. At the end of the week, we were shutout on silvers. Sorry Bill and Rodney. I know a couple of haggard pink salmon are not what you expected …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/1/24
This was the first full week of a reduced silver salmon limit. I was hoping that the run was late, but clearly ADFG made the right call. The fishing this past week was steady. Steady slow. Day 1, Blinn Week 3. Larry, Steve, Jo Ray, and Josh. The extra fish is a bonus red salmon. Day 2, Blinn Week 3. Robert started out with …
Fishing Report Week Ending 8/25/24
The second week of the Gary Blinn Crew is in the books. The photos show smiling faces and quite a few fish. However, the photos don’t tell the whole story. We logged a lot of hours to catch what we did. Sure we found fish, but not like what we’re accustomed to. That being said, it’s time to share the daily photos of happy …
Fishing Report Week Ending 8/18/24
It was a fun week of fishing the Gary Blinn crew. Week 1 is done. There are 2 more weeks to go. This was our pattern every day. Head out fishing at 5:30am and set up on anchor targeting silver salmon. When the silver bite slowed down mid morning, move to the islands and cast spinner baits to catch whatever might be there. …
Fishing Report Week Ending 8/11/24
Usually, the transition from red salmon fishing to pink and silver salmon fishing is seamless. Not this year. It’s been a struggle to find good numbers of salmon all week. Rising and dirty water doesn’t help either. I’ll start out the blog post with the first silver caught this year from the boat. I think Dennis …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/10/23
There were definitely more silvers in the river this week than last week. That makes things a whole lot easier on me. However, having a bunch of experienced anglers in my boat didn’t hurt either. I started the week fishing with Nelson, Donna, Matthew and Grey. The morning goal was to get Grey a salmon. Mission …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/3/23
It was the toughest week of guiding for me this season. High, dirty water, no bait, huge tides, and low numbers of silver salmon made for long days on the river. I’m glad I had the crew that I did in such difficult conditions. Not boating many fish stings, but it was lessened by great attitudes every day. Tom, Dan, and Mike …