AK update

Finally another update on the 2011 Alaska season, the waterproof part of my camera seemed to quit working a few weeks ago but we are back on track with a new one now.  We had a great King season on the Nushagak River losing count of fish landed most days!!  The sockeye run was great and they are starting to spawn in a few smaller systems around here, the chum spawn is in full swing on my favorite river the Goodnews and Trout fishing is crazy good, other rivers are soon to follow.  There are a few cohos showing up as well so here comes the gravy train, beads for trout and huge number hookup days on silvers!!!  The last half of the Alaska season is definately my favorite, 6 weeks to go.

They will even try diving on the sockeye for a meal.

That seagull may have a surprise coming.

Secret River Trout.

Swinging leeches for Rainbows is fun!!

A dandy Rainbow that crushed a "green headed monster".

Goodnews River Trout.

Centerpinning the Goodnews braids for Trout.

Muskegon River Guide Service

Steelhead fishing on the Muskegon River is good for mid May but boat traffic is higher than normal for this time.  Water level has dropped considerably and is slightly colored.  There are decent numbers of dropback fish available in the pools and still quite a few Steelhead on spawning gravel.  Ed and Fritz and I hit the Muskegon River around 8:30 today, we started out back bouncing spawn for the first hour and a half and found a few hungry dropbacks and fought through the army of trout gobbling up our bait.  Around 10:00 we switched gears to fly fishing and had good action for the rest of the day putting a bunch of fish in the net including a hefty buck that was 12 lbs. on the boga grip.  I have May 15 and 16 available for Spring Steelhead fishing on the Muskegon River, back bouncing spawn can produce some exciting strikes with hungry dropback Steelhead call or email to get out and enjoy some nice weather and solitude on the river.

5/9/2011 Fritz hooked this fish back bouncing spawn and it was the best fight all day.

5/9/2011  Ed with the big fish of the day 12 lbs. on the boga!!

5/9/2011  Fritz with a colorful buck steelhead.

5/9/2011  Ed with a dropback Steelhead caught back bouncing spawn.