Late June and Early July at the Royal Coachman AK

Over the last two weeks in Alaska, lots of changes are occurring in our river and lake systems. The King, Chum, and Sockeye salmon runs are in full swing and we have already seen some chum and sockeye spawning in some rivers! The Northern Pike fishing is still great but starting to slow a little. We have caught a couple of big Shefish, which are quit rare for us and are a great fighting fish. Lakers are still feeding heavy on salmon smolt. The char and rainbow fishing has slowed down a little this week in some of the systems but he dolly varden fishing is just starting to heat up.

Week two at the Royal Coachman Lodge AK

We have been experiencing beautiful weather lately and great fishing! The Rainbow fishing has been getting hot with lots of fish coming on a skated mouse, dry droppers and also streamers. The Lake Trout and Northern Pike fishing is still amazing right now and some the Lakers are actually being caught skating mice as well! Won't be long before we start seeing the first big pushes of Chum, Sockeye, and King Salmon.

Early June at the Royal Coachman Lodge AK

We are in the middle of our first week of guests here at the Coachman and the fishing has been really good for giant Northern Pike on mouse patterns and Dahlberg Divers, Lake Trout on streamers, and Arctic Char. The Rainbow Trout fishing is off to a little bit of a slow start but that is also due to the low ceiling preventing us from flying to some of our best spots for bows. Here of some of pics from our first week....