Fishing Report Week Ending 9/17/12

 

The biologists at Fish and Game say that there are two runs of silvers in the Kenai River and that the second run peaks during the middle of September.  Boy, sure haven't seen it so far.  The fishing has been steady and we are catching silvers every day but not once this past week did I utter the phrase, "do you want to end your day early and keep your last fish or do you want to keep on fishing?"  Fish on is what we did.

Above is Bill and Linda Boettcher.  You may remember them from my report at the end of July when they came down to fish for kings but ended up fishing for reds.  It was great visiting with them on the boat and not on the bank this time.  Thought I'd share a couple of adventures we had on this day that both led to a lost fish.  The first happened near the Pasture.  There were only three boats in the entire lineup and a fourth boat came down and decided to fish less than 100 feet from us.   They seemed way too close and when Bill hooked a fish that got into their anchor rope it was obvious they WERE too close.  No apologies, no acknowledgement, no words of sympathy, no attempts to get out of the way when they saw we had a fish on.  Just three guys untangling our lure from their anchor line with nothing to say.   Very disappointing considering the river was virually empty and they chose to fish so close to us.  The second lost fish came about when Linda hooked a nice silver and it ran to the middle of the river.  A seal decided it was an easy meal and grabbed on to it and wouldn't let go.  Took the fish and one of the hot lures of the week.  Oh well, that's just the way it goes.

It's Dan and Mary Meyer time, version 2.0.  They're back again for a little bit of rest and relaxation.  It's all been good but the salmon are making us work way too hard.  I'm fishing them more in the week ahead so I hope to be posting more photos.

Here's Vern and Nancy Gullikson holding up the second double hook up for the season.  It was great to have these two in the boat again.

Team ABC Seamless made their annual silver run to the Kenai.  From left to right is Brian, Jeff, Nate, and Wally.   We've had better days on the Kenai but Brian reminded me we have also had worse.   Never a bad day when I'm in the boat with these guys.

The Gutter Boys from Team ABC Seamless.  James on the left, Karl on the right.

I had to include this photo of Wally releasing the largest rainbow trout ever caught in my boat on the lower river.  Nate thought it measured out close to 30" but I'm thinking it was closer to 27"-28".   Nonetheless, it was huge and no doubt it will be a topic of conversation for years to come.

The forecast this week looks like normal September weather.....lots of rain and when it doesn't rain  there will be frost in the morning.   This gives me hope that we'll have a normal silver salmon fishing week as well.  You know what, even if we don't we're going to have fun doing it anyway.

See you next week.