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2024 Naknek River Trip


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Sitting in Anchorage airport waiting on the last flight to King Salmon.  This was a trip I didn't think would happen.  Too many things going on at home - flash flood and putting things back together - short on staff... but I was told I needed to leave and regroup.  So I'm here till Saturday, a short stay for me.  But it should be a good one.

I'm planning on visiting friends at camp and in town.  Fish for rainbows.  Boat to Brooks and visit my bear friends.  And the most important task - bring a couple of boxes of salmon home.  My friend @Waterman set aside 2 boxes for me so I don't have to work for sockeye- besides that run is pretty much over there.

I'll post a few pics, esp now that camp has internet.  I have mixed feelings about that... I liked it when I was off the grid.

Airports are BUSY.

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Finally got out and fished a little. Out in front of camp, drifted 1/8th once black jigs. Caught 3 rainbows just over 20 inches and one at 26 inches. Mine is 26. Jim’s pic is a 22. Caught another 10 each from 12-18 inches. 

Tomorrow the weather changes back to cold and rain. Summer is over. It lasted 5 days. 

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Ran up Big Creek yesterday looking for kings and chums. Jim caught a small king and I got one good bite. Looked around the river for the same and wasn’t successful. Fished the rapids and caught one small rainbow. Good afternoon fishing with Jim and hood son James. 

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Back home... had a really good trip.  Didn't fish hard at all.  A few hours here and there, almost all out in front of camp over the boulder field.  I think I ended up with a dozen rainbows over 25 inches and these 2 almost 30 inches.  The chrome was the closest at 29 and the colored up buck was 28 inches.  Man what I'd give for a trolling motor!  Next year Jim said he'd have at least one on a boat.

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Never caught a salmon although they still were running fairly well.  The sockeye were low in number and very small average. They said a lot came back after only one year.  Don't know what triggers that...  they said the bay was much colder than normal this year.

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Showing off some improvements to the dining hall.  Jim's upgrading all the cabins too.

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There were a couple of rainbows chasing smolt I saw that I really didn't want to hook!  We've seen them longer than 40 inches in that river - some real live horses.

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