After closing to all boat traffic on September 24th due to flooding, the Kenai River reopened on October 3rd. I had several groups affected by this closure, but now I can officially say my 2012 guiding season has come to an end. This, however, doesn't mean I've stopped fishing.
I got a call from my friend Boo and he said he was having a lot of silver success in the middle Kenai. There are a lot of guys I don't always trust to give an accurate fishing report, but Boo's word is as good as gold. He asked if I wanted to go with him the next day. Needless to say he didn't have to ask me twice. Well, I'll never be the guy that says you should have been here yesterday, as we had a good trip, but not like the day before ( when 14 silvers were caught). In a couple of hours we caught 3 silvers and had that many follow ups.
Since fishing with Boo I've fished a couple of times on the lower river. Believe it or not there are still a few pink salmon biting out there. I did manage to catch one nice silver that will taste great on the grill.
Finally, in the world of photoshop, often it's hard to believe photos that are passed around on the internet. The photos of this brown bear were taken with an iPhone and I will absolutely verify it's authenticity. That's my friend Kyle posing with his trophy which measured just under 10 feet. He shot this bear last week near Fallen In Hole on the Kenai River. For Dan and Mary Meyer and all the guys in the Blinn group, there's no doubt you've probably seen this bear.
Kyle has a great story about shooting this bear and learned that this bear was tagged near Tustumena Lake in 1999 as a 6 year old. That makes this boar 19 years old. It's amazing that it in all these years it hadn't become a casualty of DLP (defense of life or property) considering that it's been living in close proximity to two communities. Kyle says he plans on having a full body mount done.
It's sad but this will be my last week of fishing before the boat and dock come out for the year. Make sure to check for one last river report before Jane and I shut everything down. See you then.
Keith
5 comments:
Wow, that's just down from Jeff's, that's a big damn bear!
You're right Dave. Jeff is real happy to have that bear gone.
Dumb question, obvious you can hunt that area, apparently there is no restrictions? just seems awfully close to houses.
It was on the Kenai Riverbend side of the river. Private property and it was not in city limits.
this is just fucking sad a beautiful beast dead because of assholes like you!
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