2007 King fishing is done

The 2007 king season (at least for me, the season ends July 13th in most parts that I fish) is about done. The only thing left is the late kenai run and that requires a boat. Since I am already scheduled to go halibut fishing in a few weeks, I do not really want to go king fishing. Besides, I got a king this year, which was the goal anyway. Also, I am leaving to go dipnetting on the kenai on friday.
Day by day fishing report after the break.

6/28 - Ship Creek - 1 hour
Went at lunch with Pat. I actually misread the tide guide and timed it so that we would have been there for the high tide the week before. Next year I will master the "put the good tides on the schedule before the run starts" and catch a king at lunch.

6/29 - Eklutna - 3 hours
Two stories. First, this was the first day I said "why am I here, I should be fishing" at the office and had someone reply "so go fishing", which I did. Left early to beat the traffic out and got to eklutna around 4:15 and fished till a bit after 7.
Second. I had gone over to my buddy Dave's house and tried to get him to go fishing the night before and he did not want to do so. I told him he was wasting his summer and then bet him $10 that he would not go fishing the next day. At around 6:15 or so, I was tossing a vibrex, but getting pretty bored and he called to tell me he was fishing at eklutna, which was odd, because I had been there for over two hours and had not seen him. He was down on the knik river side and we met up and talked and then drank a beer in the parking lot and split.

6/30 - Little Siux - 6 hours
I head to Moesephs after spending the night at the cabin. While we are chillin he asks if I want to go fishing with his friend Jesse. We head to the point mackenzie launch and fished upriver of the launch. Nothing, but I did learn how to de-rock a jet boat engine after we ran aground at one point.

7/2 - Ship Creek - 1.5 hours
I broke down and did something I have not done in probably 15 years and should probably have done when Noah was here. I purchased and fish with a bobber. I picked up some slip bobber rigs and started fishing ship creek with eggs. I like the slip bobber setup because it allows me to fish much deeper than a regular bobber does. I have several people I have told I will teach how to fish during silver season and I think I am going to start them on slip bobbers because it is the easiest way to start them.

7/4 - Ship Creek - 2 hours
Got up at 9 to fish the early high tide - was there from 9:30 till 11:30. Floated eggs under a bobber without success. Not much going on.

Eklutna - 3 hours
Got there about 1 and left at 4. They opened the tailrace all the way to the plant discharge, so I threw a spinner right at the discharge with a dozen or so people. There was a couple families who had stayed and fished all night who had caught a few fish, but not much going on. There was a lot of carcases and dead fish.

- Interlude -
Then I got burnt out. Lots of fishing in a long period of time, and the fish were not running. I did not do any fishing for the next 5 days. Needed to recoup.

7/9 - Montana Creek - 3 hours
This was effectively the last day of king season (note kenai exception, which I will not be fishing) because the streams of the parks highway were only open till midnight.

I hemmed and hawed about whether to go and then my mom called and told me I should, so I bolted the office at 4 and hit the road. I left home base at around 4:30, stopped for gas near willow and got to the creak about 6:30. One guy pulled a blush 18# out right when I got there (I walked in with some very nice people) and that was the only fish I saw landed the entire time. Threw a tigerstriped mepps, then a pixee (at 3/4 it was the heaviest thing I had in the box, so I could get it out the farthest into the siux, as the water level was up), then finally a spin n glow, which was what everyone else was fishing.

It was a beautiful night out and I am very happy I went. When I was sitting at the office I asked myself "when is the next time you can go out and catch kings?" and I realized it will probably be a year before I can do so again.

I got my one king and I was very happy with that.


Now I go dip netting for reds on Friday.