Alaska Kayak Fishing
 

Here is a report from Alaska! We just got back from a 5 week trip up to our cabin in Talkeetna. Talkeetna is north of Anchorage about 100 miles. Did some lake and stream fishing up there, nothing major- just trout. We were able to take 2 separate trips down to Seward and Resurrection Bay. Resurrection Bay is a 15 mile inlet that opens to the Gulf of Alaska. The first trip was at a forrest service cabin in Thumb Cove with my wife and daughter. Thumb Cove is about 8 miles out of Seward. You take a water taxi and can stay in one of two cabins for 60 a night. Great fishing there. Thumb Cove is about a mile long and has 3 glaciers at its head. The fishing at the mouth was great for Rockfish, P Cod, and Salmon. No halibut for me but I did manage 3 silver salmon and an assortment of nice rockfish. Great spot! The next trip was back down to Seward about 3 weeks later. My friend and I went for 3 days to the mouth of Resurrection Bay and Camped at Sunny Cove on Fox Island. This place was really cool. The fishing was excellent. My goal was a halibut and I caught a few on the first night we were there - not huge - about 6-8 lbrs. Caught a real ugly looking fish - arrowtooth flounder - not good to eat. The next morning I paddled out of the cove with the halibut mission in mind but got derailed by some silly silver salmon fishing. Wide open was the theme for about 3 hours. Every cast you had a fish. Lost a bunch boat side. Need a net next time - hard to gaff these fish. Lots of boats out there - it was saturday and apparently we were in the prime salmon fishing spot in the bay. Often you could see the salmon below you hitting your hoochie! Super cool - Salmon in the saltwater are aggressive and not shy to hit your bait. My buddy slept in that morning and missed the bite - but we went back out in the afternoon and caught a few more - Biggest was about 12-13lbs I think with about an 8 lb average. We got hammered that night by gale force winds and dumping rains. We spent the night holding down our tarp and eating salmon sashimi and taking shots of Jim Beam. Fun but wild night. The gale ended after about 2 am and woke to calmer seas. Went back out to the salmon factory and nailed another 4 and lost countless - silver salmon are experts at throwing the hook. We were able to take our limits back - 6 each. The halibut fishing potential here is endless. Super quick paddle to get into the good spots. Just need some more time to figure it out. Next year! My buddy rented a kayak from Chris Mautino at Liquid Adventures in Seward - check him out if you go and need a yak - super good guy. Hope you enjoy the pics!http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...o/IMG_8405.jpg
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Now that's a kayakfishing report! Thanks..

Someone please fix this post, my brain hurts! :p

Cool pics, love Alaska.

I'm sooooo jealous, absolutely beautiful. You just showed me pictures of my dream trip.

Wow Matt! Awesome stuff! My dream trip :luxhello:

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Now that is living!!!:you_rock:

awesome. this looked like an adventure and a real cool way to experience life in alaska. super jealous for sure........i'll put this on my bucket list

Fox Island... Fished near there out of Kayaker's Cove (is it still there?). So cool! Envious. Congrats on the epic trip.

How wild it that ????

That's what kayakfishing is all about. Congrats!!!

Dude that is awesome

amazing report good job!

now that is a trip of a life time, that is definately on the to do list, thanks for sharing:reel:

Next to a Q105 mothership trip, shallow water rock fish in Alaska is my dream trip. Thanks for a great report.

Now that is some serious PORN!!!! Looks like the first Catapalooza minus the fish of course...:o

Very Jealous! :notworthy:

SWEET!!!!!

GBF

What an awesome report! thx for sharing. Always nice to see out-of-state fish porn.

Matt why would you come back???? Rad report man. Almost as good as your WSB sesh that day bud...

Thanks for the great report and pix! It was worth the scroll to the right!

Knife
Fire
Fresh meat
A bottle of Jim


Welcome to Paradise.:D:D:D





P.S. Please adopt me! Daddy!

Epic in all ways...report, pics, and memories. The wasabi to-go cup is classic!
Thanks for sharing.

Looks like a badass trip! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to get up to Alaska someday.

Amazing... For a minute there I forgot about La Jolla.

What a great report. The pics were awesome, I really liked the shot by the fire. Sashimi with a Jim Beam chaser, what a life. Thanks for taking the time to write such great story. Now I have another place on the bucket list....

Awesome trip - thanks for posting.

whate a remarkable spot!!!!!! I love this planet....so glad i landed on it instead of ichmatuboo 26:you_rock:

Great report and pics. In your photo of the 2 halibut I noticed that the fish at the bottom of the picture looks different from the fish at the top, bigger mouth, longer jaw, way more teeth, more rounded dorsal and anal fins, and different colored tail. The top fish does look like a pacific halibut but the bottom one looks like maybe an arrow tooth flounder. Are they different and if so what is the bottom fish? Inquirering fish head mind wants to know. Thanks mike

Hey thanks everybody for the good words. Trip was really cool - Ryan- I did not want to come back! Have not been out to LJ yet but that day with the seabass was really cool - thanks for the photos! Nailed them the next day too!

The second halibut looking thing is an arrowtooth flounder! You are right, weird looking thing big mouth and teeth - tastes awful bad. Caught a bunch of those and several halibut that night. They were biting the heck out of everything - huge plastics, mega baits and herrring. Lots of fish out there.

See ya all off LJ!

Thanks for the confirmation, and I nailed it in one too. I raised CA halibut at the Hubbs hatchery in carlsbad. Since then the flat fish are kinda dear to my heart. Mike.