August 2nd 2009
We are just back from a two week family and friends trip to our vacation home on the Kenai peninsula. The sockeye fishing on the Kenai was fast and easy despite the high / cold river flows during the latter part of the trip. A lake behind Skilak glacier breached the glacier and brought the river flows up nearly two feet during our stay.
While this dirtied the river and cooled it by over 10 degrees the sockeye fishing ranged from consistent to fantastic. On those days when over 30K sockeyes would enter the river we would limit in as little as 15 to 30 minutes and on the slower days (less than 10K fish entering the river) it would take us 3 to 5 hours for our 3 fish limits. (Left: My 16 year old son Jake with the day's catch at the Kenai center. Below Jake, my brother Pete and son Tyler and I with a lot of filleting ahead of us).
We worked a number of areas from the public access areas to a couple of friends backyards who are blessed to have riverfront property on the lower river, to hike in spots on the upper river around Jim's Landing. With the cold flows the fish were HOT and hard to hang on to. I would estimate that our overall hookup to land ration at about 35%, at best.
With the high flows the king action was tough so we opted to concentrate on sockeyes and leave the king fishing to the pros. Val Early from Early fishing reported some huge fish this past week with kings to 60 pounds. 
The razor clamming was good with big crowds turning out to take advantage of the -5 foot tides last week but easy limits of 60 clams per angler were the rule. 
We got in just one day of halibut fishing with Steve Smith with easy limits of big halibut running from 30 to 70 pounds.
We rounded out the days quadding on our local beaches and exploring the backwoods trails and catching up on chores around the house.
The weather was overcast with frequent light rain and showers almost daily.
The past two weeks seemed like three days and I can't wait to go back in the fall for silvers, steelhead and ducks.

We are looking ahead to another fun packed summer so come on up and join in on the action. If you have any questions regarding our USAFishing's Kenai Peninsula CABIN or the fishing or the Kenia area in general please give us a call at 707 762-9776. We will be more than happy to assist you.

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