Silver Salmon Fishing is our Goal

Alaska Silver (Coho) salmon: Greenish blue back with silvery sides. Small black spots on the back, dorsal fin, and usually on the upper lobe of the tail.. The gum line is white to light gray. Spawning adults develop greeenish black heads and dark brown to maroon bodies.

The Alaska silver salmon has been called the greatest Alaska sport fish. The State of Alaska sport fishing record is 26 pounds. The general weight range on the Kenai River and Kenai Peninsula stream systems run from 9-24 pounds. The coho has certainly has an important place in Alaska subsistence and commercial fisheries. The life cycle of the silver salmon is similar to that of the Alaska king salmon. Silver salmon will stay in the freshwater for a year or two before migrating to the saltwater where they will spend at least 2 years swimming the Kenai coastal waters or in the Gulf of Alaska. Even as young smolt in freshwater the Alaska silver salmon is a voracious and aggressive eater and are known to eat each other and these aggressive tendencies are their undoing as a sport fish. Beginning in late July, Alaska silver salmon will begin to congregate in bays and near mouths of their spawning streams and rivers as they wait for nature to optimize water temperature and stream flow before they continue migration to their freshwater spawning grounds. This life pattern makes the silver salmon a great saltwater and freshwater sport fish on the Kenai Peninsula over a long season.. In saltwater from mid July through September the areas near Deep Creek, Anchor River, and Whiskey Gulch are productive. Kachemak Bay, Resurrection Bay, Seldovia Bay and the homer Spit provide anglers with good shore and boat coho fishing. Freshwater fishermen on the Kenai , Russian, Anchor and Kasilof Rivers as well as Deep Creek and Crooked Creek provide outstanding freshwater Alaska silver salmon fishing action from late July through October. The Kenai Peninsula lake system and the Kenai Canoe Trails in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge also provides some great fishing action for landlocked silver salmon and for salmon in the Swanson River system.