Alaska Fishing Doesn't Get Any Better Than Fishing At Our Alaska's Nushagak Salmon Camps!

Excerpts taken from
"North American Fisherman"
March 1995
On The Scene - King Salmon Fishing in Alaska
Last year, I investigated Jake's Alaska Wilderness Outfitters Camp and the Nushagak fishery for myself. Arriving there, I found anglers sitting in lawn chairs overlooking the river. "Fishing slow?" I asked. "Nope. We're just resting up for the next wave of fish to come in." said guide Troy Kirchel. "We caught more than 30 Alaska king salmons this morning." The rest period was well advised. Later, four anglers caught 76 kings from 20 to 56 pounds in just four hours. Other than a few that were kept for the smoker, AIl the fish were released unharmed. That evening, as fillet knives flashed in the orange twilight, I sat in one of the lawn chairs lined-up atop the bank of the Nushagak. I watched the closest thing to a sunset that Alaska receives during its summer solstice Several of the camp's 10 anglers were indulging in a piscatorial "night cap" by catching sockeyes.

"Of course, in the upper river, anglers can expect to catch trout, arctic char, and arctic grayling. Northern pike prowl the backwater sloughs. Expect to catch plenty of chum salmon from 6-17 pounds..

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