News from the Naknek River Camp

[Phil Lilley]

Just talked to Jim Johnson, my friend who just bought a camp in Alaska and is entertaining clients as I type.

The sockeye are starting to run up the river they're on but the locals say they're late this year. Jim says he thinks there's 10,000 per day moving past his camp but that number will increase to 100,000 within the week.

He said in the evening at his camp the rainbows are chasing minnows on the surface like whites on shad- pretty incredible. He landed his largest rainbow yesterday- 11 pounds. They haven't seen a rainbow less than 5 pounds yet.

They've ran down river and caught some kings but it's still very early... they won't come in good till mid July.

Made a trip to Brooks Lodge and watched 20 bears in the river feeding last week. They have bear come thru their camp everyday but they stay away from humans- so far.

Sung goes down about 12:30 am and rises again about 3 am. The bugs are thick! Esp in the morning and evening when the wind dies.

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