Mid July at the Royal Coachman Lodge

July continues to be extremely dry but the fishing is still consistently very good most of our fisheries. I've mostly been targeting Dolly Varden and Rainbows with the occasional King day mixed in. Here are a few of the highlights from the past couple weeks....

Mid to late June at the Royal Coachman Lodge AK

The season is three weeks old and the fisheries are changing weekly. Salmon are flooding the rivers and the Chum are already starting to spawn in some of the fisheries. Everything here is at least a week or two early this year due to the lack of snow fall this winter and unseasonable warm spring temps. The water is super low, probably equivalent to our mid August level which is making running jet boats a challenge is some of our smaller tribs. The fishing has still been great regardless for all species. Here are a few highlights from the first couple weeks.

Last Steelie Trip and Striper with Stripers

The steelhead trip was about a week and a half ago and we did pretty good and saw one other angler all day. Also I was in northeast Massachusetts with Elliot Jenkins of Greasy Beaks Charters to do a little striper fishing. He was doing really well until I decided to head that way along with a nasty North-Eastern wind which put everything down including the water and air temps considerably. We still did decent getting tight on some nice stripers. My biggest, about a 32 inch striper came off right at the gunnel so I didn't get a pic, but I landed lots of fish in the low 20inch range on the fly. Here is a pic of Elliot with a beauty that went about 38 inches. The day after I left it really started picking up and fish were busting on the surface....figures, thats fishing though. I highly recommend getting in touch with Elliot if you are the least bit interested in some great striper action this summer, he really has it dialed in up there and is a pleasure to fish with! Its only going to get better from here on out!

Late April Trip

Here is a post from the last three days of April I forgot to throw in there. The fishing was great everywhere we went for the most part....