Alaska basics forum ideas: Steelheader.net- Steelhead, Salmon and trout fishing

There are many ways to fish alaska very cheaply. First start with the air fair. If you get an alaska airlines cretit card you earn a mile for every dollar spent. They have all kinds of bonuss and incentives for free tickests at 20000 miles, plus you get a 50 dollar companion fair every year. If you had a buddie who wanted to go you could use the companion fair then cancle the credit card and split the ticket price.

When you get here ( I would come the week after the forth of july) I would buy a tent like one of those big colman for about 100 bucks, rent a car and drive fish and camp. There are good fisherys in anchorage as well as about every 20 miles out of anchorage. Just to name a few starting north, Willow creek, montana creek, deshka landing, sheep creek, talkeetna river, little susitna, Big susitna, ship creek, bird creek, placer river, Reserection bay, cortz creek, kenai lake, upper kenai river, russian river, skilak lake, middle kenai, moose river, lower kenai, kasilof, anchor river, ninlichik river, deep creek, and homer. These are all accesable to bank fishing.

As for fish processing and getting it home. You can keep your fish on ice for about 3 days. There are alot of places in anchorage and soldotna that will vac pac and flash freeze your fish and even arrange for shipping. If it were me I would fish up north for a few days then hed back to anchorage have my fish taken car of, the processor will store it for you. Then I would go to the kenai peninsula and fish for 3 days. Have my fish taken care of and come back to anchorage. You can take your fish on the airplane or have it shipped. Either way you will want to pack it with dry ice.

If you come up in July you will hit the second run kings ( the bigger ones) if you time it right you could get Kings, Reds, Halibut, Ling, rainbows and dollies.

Another idea would be to bank fish up north then use a guide for halibut and kings down south. As for tackle depending on what time of year, I would give me a shout. I can tell you what you want to bring at any given time because it changes threwout the season.

you can take care of all licenses in anchorage. You can buy just a week long license and a king stamp.

The total cost for some thing like this would be around 1000-2000 dollars depending on how much you want to do.

If any one wants more detailed info on any of the rivers let me know I can get you all the detailed info you need.

keep em tight,

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Team Jackson Baldwin

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