These flies tied by Dr. David Wartinbee, Kenai Peninsula College professor of biology, imitate chronomid pupae. The patters that have a brassy bead on them mimic the emerging pupa of a black fly and the small pocket of air it creates just before taking flight. Wartinbee said the pattern can be very effective for trout fishing on lakes in the spring and throughout the summer.
Rainbow trout fishing action on the upper Kenai River is beginning to pick up as fish make their annual migration out of Kenai and Skilak lakes and into the main stem of the river, and up the Russian River, for spawning.
For a day that started with clouds, Saturday ended up with bright sunshine. It was even brighter for Anchorage angler Leszek Kuligowski, winner of the 2013 Homer Winter King Salmon Tournament. For reeling in the largest fish in the...
Rainbow trout gorging themselves on eggs and flesh from the Kenai River’s large sockeye run this year will provide anglers with plenty of opportunity this weekend.
And if the trout aren’t there, the silvers might be tucked in...
As water began to fill my waders, I gasped for air and something to grab. I asked myself what, if anything, I could learn from this.
Scrambling up the rocks, I stood and felt the hold of river water dump from my waist belt into...
A few silvers, an increasing trout bite and a load of humpies — that’s what anglers headed to fish the Kenai River can expect this weekend.
Joe Connors of Big Sky Charter and Fishcamp said batches of silvers are hanging in the...
Three years ago, Kate Curtis, a 16-year-old from Hastings, Minn. caught a 50-inch muskie after just 20 minutes of fishing.
Family and friends might have thought the trophy fish was a fluke — beginner’s luck for a girl who never...
It’s last call for sockeye fishermen and a first chance for coho chasers on the Kenai River this weekend.
Jason Pawluk, assistant area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said fishing should also be...