Large Chinooks in the snow

Chris Sessions · 02-05-2004, 06:08 PM

With so many areas in Alaska and Canada facing more and more restrictive fishing regulations and reduced bag limits, it’s refreshing to fish around Kodiak. The Chinook season is year round the limit is 2 Chinooks per day no annual limit, all other salmon 5 per day no annual limit and halibut 2 per day no annual limit. Catch and release is a good thing but it’s more fun to release cause you want to, not because you have to.
The Island is beautiful, the season is long and the salmon are BIG!
Here are a few pictures of large kings landed the last couple weeks. My buddy Norm and local guide Pete displaying the salmon. I’ll be heading back up there in a couple weeks to work on a new boat and do a little fishing. Still have some good dates open for Kodiak 2004. :smile:
Chris Sessions
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snit · 02-05-2004, 06:22 PM

Great fish Chris!!! My buddy Dave Woodruff runs Alaska Fresh there in Kodiak and I fish halibut and lings with John Parker. They always brag about the kings they catch in March!!!!! I've seen the pictures of the 40+ pounders in the snow. How cool to be catchin' hogs right now!!!!

whitewaterbill · 02-05-2004, 06:42 PM

Sign me up.....I'm out of here and going there!!!!

SG

ANDYCOHO · 02-05-2004, 06:49 PM

Man those are some NICE lookn' fish!!

But it does look a little cold...

Man, it would be nice to be able and find fish like that this time of year :tongue:

bellinghamangler · 02-05-2004, 06:56 PM

Snit, didn't Dave Woodruff used to run Cook Inlet Processors? Seems like he was in charge when I was seining Kodiak in the early 90s.

SPAZZ · 02-05-2004, 08:21 PM

Kentucky Hog Hunter · 02-05-2004, 08:32 PM

Jimminy Christmas... :shocked:

I would have never imagined that...

Silver Hilton · 02-05-2004, 10:25 PM

Can you imagine what a fillet of that fish would look like on a barbeque? Oh, my heart...

Chilly one · 02-06-2004, 07:36 AM

Did You Keep 'em?
Ha Ha!
Nice work on those "slugs!"
"Happiness is a Bent Rod!"

Chillyone.....

snit · 02-06-2004, 07:46 AM

Bellingham, Dave has worked at AlsakaFresh since the late 80's I think. Great guy though, he always processes our fish for us.

CATCH AND EAT · 02-06-2004, 08:10 AM

Is that down around Sitkalitic? I have fished many times On the Karluk River which is absolutly awesome. Salt experience has been in Larson Bay, Uyak Bay and out in the Shilekoffs for salmon. Seems the south side of Kodiak has bigger fish where as the nw tip of the island the fish are shapped like bullets.

Would love to fish the southern side of the island sometime. Nothing like catching big kings and butts at the same time. :grin:

Great pictures! Thanks.

snit · 02-06-2004, 09:04 AM

My buddies that catch these giant "blackmouth" don't go far out of Kodiak. Generally around Long Island not far from the harbor.

bribri76 · 02-06-2004, 09:36 AM

SteelieSlammer · 02-06-2004, 12:37 PM

Those are some real nice kings!

Chris Sessions · 02-06-2004, 09:44 PM

Thanks Snit,
The halibut fishing may be the best in Alaska, I've never seen anything like it, lots of fish, small to huge, and in very shallow water, I have yet to get into lings over there though, where were you finding em?

Bill,
We have your seats reserved!

Andy,
Yep, it's a little cold for sure.
BTW
The Lavro works great for the small coastal rivers. I roped it off a cliff to put in the other day, nice and light, also had some fun sliming it up lately.

Catch and Eat,
No, not around Sitkalidak. Those guy will fish all around the island but those particular fish came from the other side. I hear ya on the salmon and halibut in the same water, makes for a full fish box. Last summer it wasn't unusual to hook halibut while we were trolling whole sardines for salmon. When this happened it became known as: "loomis abuse".
Chris

Jignfloat · 02-07-2004, 09:21 AM

My, but those are some fine fish!!!!!!! :shocked:

I can only immagine how hard they must fight!! Of course that would be necessary just to stay warm.
Russ

SKP · 02-07-2004, 12:21 PM

Oink, Oink! Those are some nice slabs!

SKP

snit · 02-07-2004, 04:24 PM

Hey Salmonshark, that's what I love about Kodiak too! Fishing 8-10oz in 100 ft for giant halibut!!! Way better than Cook Inlet with 5-7#'s of lead and 60 fathoms - yuck! We've got the lings on pinnacles about 80' deep off of long Island. Wherever we would fine a good pile of black bass on the FF, the lings seem to be there too, especially right after the opener (july). Of course we'd use scampi jigs for the lings, but our biggest butt (204) was in a ling hole too. My wifes biggest ling buried a 65# scale so it was really big. I wish we would of officially weighted it, cause the record was 73#'s at the time. Live and learn. We do have several "Alaska Trophy Certificates" though for lings over 60#'s officially. They're pretty neat fish, especially when you can get one on a "hitchhiker"!