Fly Fishing Alaska

The Seasons

Four big factors can help you decide when to come. The fishing, the weather, the quantity of bugs, and the hours of daylight. I have charted out a fishing calendar for the three different rivers that we float. The only time dry flies work is on the Alagnak, early in the season through the first weeks in July The rest of the trout fishing is streamers untill you hit August and then it is almost all egg patterns (fished like a nymph with a dead drift and an indicator)

In general the best weather is in June and early July and it slowly gets more and more rainy.

The bugs take the opposite view. They are most prevalent in June and early July and they get less and less numerous as the season progresses.

The longest day is June 21 with virtual 24 hours of fishing daylight. The days gradually get shorter and shorter so that on September 1st the fishing day is 7AM to 9 PM.

Wow	Great	Available	Poor
W	G	A

The Alagnak Calander

Month	June	July	August	September

Species/Week	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4
Rainbow Trout	W	W	W	W	W	G	G	G	G	G	G	G	G	W	W
Grayling	W	W	W	W	W	G	G	G	G	G	G	G	G
Char	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	G	G	G	G
Sockeye Salmon			A	W	W	A
King Salmon						A	W	W	W	A
Chum Salmon					A	W	W	W
Pink Salmon							A	W	W	W	A
Silver Salmon									A	W	W	W	A
Lake Trout	G	G	G	G

Moraine Creek

Month	June	July	August	September

Species/Week	3	4	1	2	3	4	1
Rainbow Trout	G	G	W	W	W	W	W
Grayling	G	G	G	G	G	G	G
Char	A	A	A	A	A	A	G
Sockeye Salmon	A	A	A	A	A	A
Lake Trout	A	G	G	G	A	A	A

Grizzly Creek

Month	June	July	August	September

Species/Week	1	2	3	4	1	2	3	4	1
Rainbow Trout	G	G	G	W	W	W	W	W	W
Char	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W
Sockeye Salmon			A	A	A	A	A	A

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