Late July Early August in Alaska

Its August in Alaska and the fishing has been great!  We are still in a drought and dealing with super low water in most of our rivers.  It has made flying into certain rivers and jet boating them a little tricky.  I've hit more gravel this past week than I did all last year!

July at the Coachman

We've had some extremely hot weather this month, mostly earlier in the month.  The water is getting dangerously low in some of our rivers and the fishing has been hit and miss because of the unusually warm water temps.  It did however start cooling down last week to more normal Alaska temps which also dropped the water temp to safer levels for the fish.  In spite of the strange weather and tough conditions, it is Alaska and the fishing is still pretty damn good considering.  Here are some of our highlights from this past month....