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So you want to fish for Kings? On a fly rod? While some may associate king fishing with heavy leaders, ounces of lead, and big gobs of roe for bait. I picture long two handed spey rods, sink [...]

At Alaska King Salmon Adventures, we get a lot of anglers taking home a lot of Alaskan salmon. Between the king salmon, sockeye salmon, fresh chum salmon and coho salmon, sometimes anglers are [...]

As we prepare for another season of king salmon fishing on Alaska’s Nushagak River, this article just came out. Outdoor writer, Scott Haugen has fished with us many times over the past 15 years, [...]

One of the biggest time savers when on the water is having easy access to such things as knives, scissors, pliers and a file. If you have to dig through your tackle box every time you need one of [...]

At Alaskan King Salmon Adventures on the Nushagak River, we get a lot of anglers who go home with a lot of king salmon early in the season and many silver salmon later in the summer. One of the [...]

At Alaska King Salmon Adventures, we’re big advocates of using quality scents in order to catch more salmon. Even though we’re salmon fishing on the Nushagak River–one of the world’s best when it [...]

The concept of wrapping plugs with tuna strips, or chunks of tuna wrapped in a spawn sack, has been around for years. But one of the approaches we like using is wrapping loose chunks of tuna on [...]

There’s nothing like summer in Alaska. Sunshine and warm, long, days, are what make the Last Frontier so special. Well, except for this summer. This summer has been wet, windy and, uh, not too [...]

Here at Alaska King Salmon Adventures on the Nushagak River in Alaska, people come from around the world to not only experience the thrills of king salmon fishing, but also to take home some of [...]

At Alaska King Salmon Adventures on the Nushagak River, we cook a lot of fish, many different ways. Poaching fish is one of the most fool-proof ways to prepare it, especially fish like Arctic [...]

While we do catch salmon from shore, right at camp in Alaska, most of the king salmon we catch on the Nushagak River are from a boat. Because king salmon often travel and hold in schools, when [...]

There are a lot of ways to fish for king salmon in Alaska, or wherever they are found. Backtrolling plugs, dragging bait, drift fishing and working baits suspended beneath a float are just some [...]

Salmon eggs could be the most effective and widely used natural bait in the world of river fishing for salmon and steelhead. With fall salmon season upon us, now is a good time to plan ahead in [...]