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Klutina
River 2010
SALMON FISHING REPORT |
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July 1st
Opening
day and there were lots of kings to be had and our 3
boats of 10 total fishermen were able to catch
their limits and then some. The sockeyes
are in thick, and several fishermen were able to
get both their King and Sockeyes. It was a
great day on the Klutina River, in the Copper
River Valley!
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July 2nd
Another great day on the Klutina River. 8
clients with 21 hookups, and 14 Kings Landed!
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
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July 3rd
Another great day on the Klutina River. 7
clients with 34 hookups, and 11 Kings Landed!
Getting the fish to bite was not the problem
today. Getting them to shore was.
Today in my boat I had a 10 year old boy catch
his first King Salmon ever! It was cool!
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
Dad had to
help hold it up! |
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July 4th
The Klutina River has been a lot of fun so far
the season, with only 4 days of fishing under
our belts we have put over 40 Kings in the net!
Hard to describe what it is like to fish the
Klutina River when the fishing is HOT!
After we got our Kings today we switched it up
and went for the sockeyes. They were in
thick! Everyone pulled on sockeyes until
they were tired of them.
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
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July 5th
Fishing the Klutina has been so good this
year that today when we had no clients we did
not let it go to waste. The KingFisher's
Perch Family went fishing! Grandpa (Ken)
Dad - Guide (Randy) Son - Guide (Josh) Grandson
-Guide in training (Caleb) + the other guides
headed up the Klutina to see what we could do.
Randy threw 4 casts and landed 3 Kings! NO JOKE!
Grandpa fished for 15 minutes and got his one.
Grandson Caleb caught his first King of the year
a fat 25 pounder! And Josh after netting
everyone's fish had a little time to land a few
his self.
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
.JPG)
GP, Dad, Son, Grandson
The KingFisher's Perch Men! |
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July 6th
With only 4 fishermen today we had a ball. 23
hookups, with 19 kings landed, we are excited to
be on the river in the upcoming
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July 7th
No
Fishermen today. We all took the day off
to sleep and recuperate for the upcoming fishing
days. |
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July 8th
Today
we had two fishermen from the UK, and we got to
show them why Alaska is really special.
Fishing for only a few hours produced several
Kings in the 50 pound class! We caught and
released Kings all morning. Then switched
over to look for the Sockeye. Most of the
Sockeyes have moved through. After running
the boat up to 6 mile on the river and finding
no Sockeye action we decided to catch a few more
Kings and call it a day. It was a great
day on the Klutina River, in the Copper River
Valley!
Nice 30 pound King caught 7-8-09
Evening trip on the 8th. 4 people fishing
for 6 hours hooked 18 Kings, and landed 12.
It seems like there are more fish in the Klutina
now than there has been in years past. |
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July 9th
Fishing
today for Joshua's 4 people in the Jet boat was
a little tougher than it has been. 4
clients hooked 11 Kings and landed 4.
Everyone was able to land their own fish.
Randy's boat did a little better with over 18
hookups and 5 Kings landed. Randy's 3
fishermen got their 3 Kings! Few sockeyes
were seen with only a couple hooked today.
Still waiting for the second push of Sockeyes to
come into the Klutina River. It was a
great day on the Klutina River, in the Copper
River Valley!
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July 10th
CRAZY!
That is all I have to say about today! We
hooked more fish today than I have hooked in one
day in several years. 3 Fishermen with
over 50 hookups! The Klutina River has come up 2
feet in the last 2 days and the Kings are
moving! There are lots of new fish coming
into the river right now, lots of large males
hooked today. Several 50 pouders landed
and released. It was a great day on the
Klutina River, in the Copper River Valley!
Cool story today. A guest hooked a huge
King salmon, and after fighting it for about 5
minutes in the hole the fish decided to head
down river! We jumped in the Danger Zone
(jet boat) and chased it down the river 4 miles.
And after 40 minutes of fighting this beast and
it jumping 7 times out of the water it managed
to get off the hook. Guide estimate weight
at 65 - 70 pounds! |
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July 11th
We had
a major shift in weather last night.
Thunder storm, and rain came in hard and it
rained all night. When we headed to the river we
saw that the main water turned muddy.
Fishing at the awesome hole for yesterday for 2
hours only produced 2 hookups. So we moved
up the river, stopping at 5.5 mile on the river
we finally were able to connect with a large
king. 4 clients and only 1 King in the
boat, we decided to move up the river again.
We found where the mud was coming into the
river. The large mud slide at 8 mile was
putting a ton of mud in the river. Picking
a new spot at 9 mile produced 8 more hookups and
we were able to get our other 3 kings!
Tough day on the river, but
we
still got our 4 Kings!
It was a great day on the
Klutina River, in the Copper River Valley!
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July 12th
The
river started to clear from the rain that we had
night before last. We did not
spend any time fishing below 9 mile.
Perfect Cast hole produced 16 hookups.
Fishing got really great again.
KingFisher's Perch is still 100% success in the
2009 fishing season!
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
Still
getting chrome KINGS! |
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July 13th
Not
much to say other than Awesome. Today we
had over 50 King Salmon on the line. Only
landing 14 means one thing! These fish are
tough! They are really hard to land, and
you will work to catch yours!
It was a great day on the Klutina River, in the
Copper River Valley!
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July 14th
- 18th
The
river report has been much of the same over the
last week. Lots of kings and lots of happy
anglers. We did loose our record on the
16th we had one fisherman not land a King
Salmon. It was still a great day of
fishing on the Klutina River, in the Copper
River Valley!
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July 18th
- Aug 10th
We
moved into the peak of the King Salmon fishing
season. Due to being so busy the river
reports did no get filled out and posted every
day. One thing that is for sure we still
caught Kings and Sockeye salmon every day of the
Klutina River. Until Fish & Game closed the
river August 10th. |
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