Phil Lilley

While Bill is in the air, I'll post a couple of pics from the trip so far. I've taken more video than still pics so bear with me (pun intended). Yesterday, I went out on my own on Nakenk. Caught some sockeye for taking home. Then hit rainbows in front of the lodge. Caught a 24 inch rainbow on an olive jig. Man they fight hard!! Only had 2 bears walk up on me while fishing along silver bend. They turned rather quickly when I yelled at them. I had sockeye in the boat so I was ready to head out quickly if they didn't. Today, we picked up my boat in King Salmon and put in here in town. Headed down to the mouth of King Salmon Creek where silvers are holding, waiting to head up to spawn. At first we were nailing them but it slacked off real quick. They are geared to the tides and we were at the end of the ebb tide (slack). Of course, I was using.... a pink 1/8th oz marabou jig and the loved it. See, jigs will catch ANYTHING, ANYWHERE! Going to try that again tomorrow. No pics today, sorry. Brooks Rainbow with a stimulator in it's mouth. This is the gateway to Margot Creek on Naknek Lake- Margot is one of my favorite places in the world!! Me and Hunter Johnson heading down river in search of silvers the other day. I'm at Eddies in King Salmon waiting on Duane and Mona Cheri. We're having dinner this evening together.

Read the articles on this website. There's also maps posted here of the lake. No HP restriction but you'll have to watch the channel and gravel bars above Fall Creek if the water is low. Also, know the regulations, especially above Fall Creek. Hollar if you need specifics. Babler and I are both gone for a few weeks but Darin in our office is posting reports here weekly. Call our office at 1-800-284-2196 and ask for Darin if you want to talk fishing. Good luck!

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0qADrLLODayW2Nv24BMcsuqsTKE9u3AbQ Track me on SPOT Caught this yesterday out close to camp on the Naknek. Sculpin 1/8th oz jig of course. On my trout rod. 32 inches and was a pig- Chased rainbows today at Brooks... and got chased by bears wanting to eat the fish on our line. One got close! He was hiding in the woods and came charging out when I was unhooking it. Got it on video but connection speed here is way too slow to upload.

Thanks for joining and posting a report! Hope we see more of your comments.

Glad you had a good time. Thanks for the report.

And Chief has a point, although he put it in his roughest, directest pen. Don't most ppl who fish at parks fish there because it's easy to fish, easy to catch a fish, not as challenging as a stream or even a lake. I may be opening a whole new smelly can of worms here... I don't do parks.... heck I hardly do anything except Taney... so I'm ignorant to exactly who fishes these parks. But if the group who want larger browns is small- a small minority- that needs to be taken into consideration. And I bet it is... small.

There's more to this than just growing bigger browns. I mean the management plan would have to change. I would think they would stock less browns if they're allowed to grow larger. Larger browns eat more food and they would start eating more rainbows. They have to balance it all out. If there is a trout park mission statement, I'd like to see it. I'd like to see what MDC objectives are. I bet they wouldn't include growing trophy-size trout like browns... not specifically.

Thanks for posting. Bump this up over the weeks to come.

If we're not busy with our guests, we'll let you fish off our dock. Check in the office first.

I played that course for the first time last week (and did quite well)... what river is that? Nice- lots of running water and good holes.

I look at that tree in the water below rebar. If it's more than a couple of feet OUT of the water, I will NOT go past it.

I'll be there!!! not day-after-tomorrow... can't get a flight that quick.

Fog hasn't been that bad. Water temp is higher and fog is less. I'll let Bill answer the boating question.... since he has a $70k boat.

I've been out the last 2 evenings. It's been a little slow for me. Tossing 3/32nd oz jigs- dark ones (Olive, Sculpin) on bluff bank from Lookout to Short Creek and white jigs from the dam to MDC boat ramp. Catching fish but not big numbers- not like I thought it should be. Know there's good numbers there but they're resting I guess. Boated up to Lookout yesterday am and fished the riffle water on the upper outside of the island. Got out and waded. They took a #14 peppy scud or a fl red san juan pretty good- all good rainbows too. The area is loaded with trout. Would like to explore this area further. Later in the morning, the drift boats make their stop here and I don't want to take one of their best spots so get in early and get out so that they can fish it. I also think the flats on the shallow side of the lake from Lookout down should be good nymphing but I haven't tried. Should be able to get out and wade there too. We're wet wading. Water temp is 55-57 so not that cold.

You got it... kinda. Changed the name. Best I can do. We have too many forums as it is. But it's a good add. Thanks

After the Little St. Francis and Big River enter in, the river forms... What should this say? Not sure I got this description...

Denny- rainbows don't go to the ocean and steelhead do. Think that's it. Rolan- no new places except the flyouts we'll do from Kodiak. They'll be day trips.

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It won't be much different than what it's doing each morning right now. Wading will be tough but not impossible.

I agree.

If he's catching a lot of trout, he has to be getting rid of them or he'll have a possession issue. That's something agents will look into.

Check the regs, Cricket.

Can't cull outside of sanctioned bass tournaments. You can keep fishing anyplace BUT Trout Parks- you can not keep fishing after keeping a limit of trout.

Taneycomo is 20 inches and one of four trout per day. If he's taking that many big trout out, there won't be many left soon. He's fishing himself out of a good time- literally. He could be using sculpin for bait or another live or cut bait no one else is using. Could be using something illegal like trout parts. Bottom line is that if he's this out front of his catch, I would think the agents there would be watching him pretty close so that he is stay within the law. If he's been doing this for quite a while, I bet he's legal. Don't know the shop or shop owner but if it was me, I'd make darn sure he's catching them legal if he's bringing them in the shop showing them off. I'd watch him myself. But that's just me.

"Decent" subject to your definition. Conditions should be far from what we've been seeing. The fishing part depends on the fisherman.