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 …
Fishing Report Week Ending 8/27/23
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Okay, that might be a bit dramatic. Let’s just say the silver salmon fishing this past week has been up and down. Here’s the breakdown for the week. The week started out with a bang. It wasn’t the normal fast silver salmon bite, but it was a steady throughout the day. …
Fishing Report Week Ending 8/20/23
Monday was the first day that I’ve had off in 29 days. During that entire stretch I fished for red salmon. That’s a lot of time wearing waders and standing in the river. After my time off, I was back in the boat chasing silver salmon. This will be my focus until the end of September. I enjoy fishing for red salmon, but the …
“Give Me Some Knucks On That One….”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEjD1WdRP0 GoPros and smart phones are everywhere. Because of that, you never know where you might show up. Case in point. I was on YouTube this week and up popped a video called “Silver Salmon on the Kenai Peninsula” posted by Hogan in the Wild. I watched it …
Fishing Report Week Ending 10/3/21
Is this the last silver salmon of the season? If it is, it’s a heckuva way to end 2021. The young man in the photo above is Jagger. He came to Alaska with his buddies Dan and Pete to explore the peninsula. Even though they hadn’t scheduled a fishing trip with me, I asked them if they wanted to go out fishing for a couple …
Fishing Report Week Ending 9/26/21
It was a week of cold, wet weather. Because of that, I fished just once and it was for a couple of hours. On Saturday afternoon I invited my neighbors, Dan and Dave, to join me on the river. That’s Dan in the photo above with the lone silver salmon of the day. Hey, if you’re only going to catch one fish, it might as well …