Kenai Peninsula Help Please.

[Stz ll]

I am going to be up in Anchorage this comming week (unfortunalty for work). I will have some time in the afternoon and evenings during the week. I am taking my spinning tackle hoping to be able to fish from the bank for silvers. Does anybody know where in the Kenai or Anchorage areas where I might be able to do this. Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.

Thanks Pete (STZ ll)

[fishbait]

You might try calling Ken's Alaskan Tackle in Soldotna, they are very helpful. I don't have the number but directory assistance should have it.

[Stz ll]

Thanks Steve, (I hope I remembered that correctly). I will give them a call when I get to anchorage.

Thanks
Pete. (STZ ll)

[SAUKit2em]

I will suggest bringing some stout stuff if you are bankfishing the Kenai. I got my butt kicked up there off the bank using a 1021 Loomis and Ambassadeur 5000 with 25lb. test!!! That was on reds too!!! I can only imagine that the huge silvers up there will rip you a new one too. Good luck up there.

[willierower]

If you are staying in Anchorage there are a cople streams that are fairly close. Bird Creek and Eagle River. Bird Creek is South of town and Eagle river is North. The Susitna(sp) isnt too far away from Anchorage.

[Stz ll]

Thanks everyone. If I am successful I will let you know.!

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Hi Pete; take some of your secret sturgeon scent magic and try it on those hooknosers. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] After you try the Kenai, take a super scenic drive over a relatively short hwy. pass to Seward, AK. The whole bay should be full of cohos. It's one of the few saltwater bays that you can fish effectively for silvers from the bank. Casting/retreiving spinners (such as size 4 silver and flame red body Vibrax) and spoons (such as the silver Pixie with the pink center core) are good. And if there are some waves out in the bay you can floatfish plugcut herring 5' to 15' deep and set the hook on some viscious bobber downs. SOme of the flutter down lures such as the Buzz Bomb work well too; and cast farther. There are a lot of rivers in any direction of town that may have good numbers of silvers in them by late Aug./early Sept. that the tackle shops should clue you into a good spot. One of them is the river running right thru Anchorage, up into the Chugaks. Good runs of fish in it. Good luck. - Steve

[4Salt]

Here are a few more options closer to Anchorage you might look into:

Campbell creek - right in south Anchorage.

Bird creek - just south of town about 15 miles.

Twentymile river - just past Girdwood (30 miles or so from Anchorage)

Placer river - keep going on the Seward highway.

Little Susitna river - north of Anchorage

Parks highway streams - also north of town.

Check www.sf.adfg.state.ak.us/Region2/html/r2weekly.stm for somewhat updated reports.

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[ 08-26-2001: Message edited by: 4Salt ]