you are only gonna catch Cohos or some people call them silvers and probably not a lot. you would most likely catch sockeye salmon but The salmon run usually starts in June in Alaska next time do July and that will do and it doesn't have to be Alaska you can go to the pacific north west or even the great lakes
On the day u guys filmed this at “ship creek” I was on the other side fishing roe and limited out. The coho you caught was bright and shiny good job bro. If you out this way again let me know I can show you the urban and not so urban holes depending on the time of year it’ll be fantastic. Keep those lines tight my friend.
I know your from Michigan 😂 I was sayin if you make it here again to get your 48lb + king Salmon. These days you probably have a better chance catching one that size closer to where you are from. I actually wanna try fishing there looks pretty fun.
You got to get out of the city man! We catch multiple kings in the 50s every year in the copper river drainage. Your king fishery is destroyed down there.
@@WetBaconFishing , The world record sport caught king salmon is from the kenai up here has stood since 1988 by a local, 97lbs, the largest caught commercial was caught in a fish trap near Petersburg Alaska in the 1920’s a huge approx 126lbs! The kings are overall much smaller now even on the famous kenai.😉👍
@@troyottosen8722 that is so insane couldn't imaginge trying to handle a salmon that big. Wonder how big some of those 🐟 were they didnt get on record or catch
@@WetBaconFishing ,It used to be common to frequently catch 60 to 75 lbs on the famous kenai, not anywhere near that now, plus the king returns are way smaller numbers, yet we have at record returns along the kenai for sockeye, plus thist past summer The largest sockeye fishery on earth, Bristol bay in western Alaska set an all time harvest commercial and the amount getting into those river systems! And that says a lot!😉
Why don't you fish for these monsters closer to salt water when they are more silver colored and better eating, or do you keep any of them or do you have to release them.?
I see alot of negatively and I am being constructive. You can pre tie bags with a elastic string and save yourself messy hands and time. Less time tying on the water always translates to more fish. That is not what the eggloop is for but still genius.
I'm pretty fast with this method. There is some thought and research behind it. On this fast glacier silt river a bag is a must or your eggs are blown out in a few casts if using loose skein. I use this method for 3 reasons. 1- I need a bag, 2 - I want the entire surface area of the hook unobstructed, 3 - this method allows me to tune my knot so that the direction of the hook and its angle is directional to the direction of the drift that I am fishing. If you noticed, I am not using a snelled egg loop. A spelled egg loop doesn't allow me to hang the hook point directional or tweak the angle. I get the speed theory, but small details matter!
@@littlegoobie , We don’t have that problem here in Alaska. We got the cleanest water on earth, any longtime Alaskan resident knows to fish near the ocean before they start turning color!
@@cammontreuil7509 exactly!! I mean I love to see people come up here and catch a dream fish and I don’t blame the customers but the kenai river has the biggest salmon in the world and the guides have officially killed off 90 percent of the chinook salmon in that river not to mention they act as if they own the river and are complete assholes to the locals but the most important thing that pisses me off the most is that these dumbass seem to be completely unaware of preservation when the fishery is open you’ll see hundreds of boats out on that river and 80 percent of them are guides and each boat will land a few chinooks a day and they bonk every single one of them like I said I don’t blame the tourists for it I blame the guides. Not to mention most of the guides are coming up from Canada and Origen so they come up here in the summer time bonk hundreds of fish that are on the verge of extinction and then fly there happy asses back down to wherever they came from and don’t keep and single one of there native fish because
@@trevornewton9687 my uncle showed me how to ruin a favorite fishing hole for snaggers and combat/guides. Take the cloth off a bed spring and put it in the middle of the hole with some barbed wire hanging off it. He ran a cable off one hole too. Get creative. Another thing I have done in fear of extinction I have planted fish in creeks that are not known to have fish in them. Read Chuck Yeagers book. He did same thing. He saved a strain of California golden trout by transferring them to another state. His book is enlightening. I don't sit around. I do something. Even if it's a small something.
@@cammontreuil7509 yeah that’s super smart but unfortunately taking fish from one body of water and moving them to the next here in Alaska is extremely illegal and can get fined extremely high prices the only thing I can do is try to inform the people who visit about this problem and hope someone with more fish and game power then me will somehow shut down the fishery for a solid 10 years or at least till they get the numbers of fish in the river to rise
@@trevornewton9687 shut it down every other year or even only allow only a certain amount of license for guides. Or drop the limit to one fish. I have fished nearly all rivers in Washington, Oregon and Norcal. On the Smith, you are able to keep 5 Chinook each season. 50 and 60 pounders still are caught each fall. The river is well managed. Roudy creek is in the lower river and has a hatchery. All native fish are free to run up the forks by themselves. At a lower boat ramp, a fish counter counts adults going up river and smolts traveling down stream. Barbless hooks only. At Bonneville dam on Columbia the count fish. Counts can be seen on websites. If Alaska rivers are so economically important, counts and care have got to come into play. In Norcal tree huggers came in to play to save the giant coastal redwood. Need that kind of people in Alaska to save precious runs of salmon. An interesting read is to see salmon run investment in upper Cowlitz river above the dams.
What sucks about the klutina is it’s so far upstream the kings are red and not in good shape, plus that river kills people every year with its power and col water! Kenai is not what it used to be when I fished it in the 80’s and even 90’s, too crowded and much smaller kings, and who wants to combat fish ship creek nowadays in los Anchorage? Get out to “real Alaska “!😉👍
@@thefisherbrad , Very dangerous river along with the copper river. Those unfortunately kill a few fishermen every summer. Just curious, why fish so far inland in Alaska for spawned out kings when you can get heathy crome bright ones in, or near saltwater? You should try Kodiak someday for saltwater kings! Most there are kenai bound big ones and feeder kings and the biggest on average coho anywhere!😉👍
@@troyottosen8722 I’ve heard that from a lot of people seeing where jet boats have sunk down and became part of the river. And I’ve only ever been to Alaska twice and both times have been in august! If I go again I plan to go sooner and try for some chromers!
@@thefisherbrad , Next time fish closer to saltwater for fresh Kong’s in June, early July, chrome coho on Kodiak island is best in late August through mid September!whats awesome about Kodiak island is no part of Kodiak is more then 15 miles from the ocean, the rivers are short, clear and not crowded, and there are approx 10 you can drive to from Kodiak town, but no crowds if you take a floatplane and stay at one of many recreational cabins you can rent, all on rivers full of sockeyoand coho, and the bonus is you are “literally fishing with giant brown bears”, few people, etc...
Great catch bro. Totally awesome!💪
Titine Harris thanks dude! Glad you liked the video! It was an amazing fishing day I’ll always remember!
Bad ass great video Brad!
BDZ angling thanks dude! I can’t wait to post the other videos! I still have a lot of great footage to post!
Nice one brad!
Klay Klum thanks bro! It was a awesome trip!
Awesome Brad, I'm heading to the Kenai River this July & I really hope we can have some luck I appreciate the info!🎣
Good luck man! Be sure to check out my other Alaska videos I made!
@Joseph Tulk shoot me a message on my fb or Instagram
Great Video
Headed to Alaska at the end of August, hope to see some of these beasts. Appreciate the tips and info
you are only gonna catch Cohos or some people call them silvers and probably not a lot. you would most likely catch sockeye salmon but The salmon run usually starts in June in Alaska next time do July and that will do and it doesn't have to be Alaska you can go to the pacific north west or even the great lakes
RIP E dog... love watching him fish
What date was you trip do you remember, Great video
All of my Alaska videos were filmed between august 1st through august 10th. I belive the king day was august 5th in that video
@@thefisherbrad thank you my guy! You did really good, I mean really good! It doesn’t usually happen like that with Kings! Respect 🫡
On the day u guys filmed this at “ship creek” I was on the other side fishing roe and limited out. The coho you caught was bright and shiny good job bro. If you out this way again let me know I can show you the urban and not so urban holes depending on the time of year it’ll be fantastic. Keep those lines tight my friend.
Joshua Covey thanks man! But I’m actualy from Michigan lol but if I ever make it out to Alaska again next year I’ll send you a message!
I know your from Michigan 😂 I was sayin if you make it here again to get your 48lb + king Salmon. These days you probably have a better chance catching one that size closer to where you are from. I actually wanna try fishing there looks pretty fun.
You got to get out of the city man! We catch multiple kings in the 50s every year in the copper river drainage. Your king fishery is destroyed down there.
It’s been a year now! July 15 red and silver season!
Love the vids
Koeden Palmer thanks dude! Glad you liked it!
Awesome catch bro
NC Fish On thanks man!
Had best time of my life on this river
Fantastic video guys and no annoying sound track , keep up the good work guys .
Glad to hear you liked it!
another great video amazing size kings wish thery still got that big here in oregon
Should have seen the average size in these Alaskan rivers in the 80’s and 90’s! Just saying.😉😳
@@troyottosen8722 I've been told some stories of 100 pound kings
@@WetBaconFishing , The world record sport caught king salmon is from the kenai up here has stood since 1988 by a local, 97lbs, the largest caught commercial was caught in a fish trap near Petersburg Alaska in the 1920’s a huge approx 126lbs! The kings are overall much smaller now even on the famous kenai.😉👍
@@troyottosen8722 that is so insane couldn't imaginge trying to handle a salmon that big. Wonder how big some of those 🐟 were they didnt get on record or catch
@@WetBaconFishing ,It used to be common to frequently catch 60 to 75 lbs on the famous kenai, not anywhere near that now, plus the king returns are way smaller numbers, yet we have at record returns along the kenai for sockeye, plus thist past summer The largest sockeye fishery on earth, Bristol bay in western Alaska set an all time harvest commercial and the amount getting into those river systems! And that says a lot!😉
Visiting Alaska in one week! Would love some tips!
Send me a message on my Instagram or Facebook
Happy bear’s day
It's tough pulling fish against the tide
Awesome video man! #fishingfrienzy #lovefishing
Where you get those fish decors on ur wall
All in different places I caught all the fish and shot all the animals
Btw spot your fishing is golden during red run
Alaska king salmon spawn colors look different then the great lakes spawn colors yours are red here they turn black or brown
what type of rod and reel
I have a link to easily order it in the description of the video!
Spawners, let em spawn.
What time of year was this?
August 1st through 10th
Why don't you fish for these monsters closer to salt water when they are more silver colored and better eating, or do you keep any of them or do you have to release them.?
I was fishing for a mounter for my wall that’s why I released all the fish in this video. I did keep one this year to eat in my newest Alaska video
I see alot of negatively and I am being constructive. You can pre tie bags with a elastic string and save yourself messy hands and time. Less time tying on the water always translates to more fish. That is not what the eggloop is for but still genius.
I'm pretty fast with this method. There is some thought and research behind it. On this fast glacier silt river a bag is a must or your eggs are blown out in a few casts if using loose skein. I use this method for 3 reasons. 1- I need a bag, 2 - I want the entire surface area of the hook unobstructed, 3 - this method allows me to tune my knot so that the direction of the hook and its angle is directional to the direction of the drift that I am fishing. If you noticed, I am not using a snelled egg loop. A spelled egg loop doesn't allow me to hang the hook point directional or tweak the angle. I get the speed theory, but small details matter!
I bet that was a good time that water is fast
Nice fish...may I recommend a rubber net, they work way better
Charles Sensing Thankyou! And yes I would of used a rubber one but they didn’t have any at wallmart sadly!
I hands down prefer a deep fabric net on this river. I am netting green fish in fast heavy current. 99.9% of the clients are keeping fish.
Most rubber nets tend to be on the shallow side making
It tough to use on big fish and the nets weigh a ton.
Only rubber nets around Alaska for sale wouldn’t land a rainbow trout in the klutina River.
🤙🏻
Combat fish a big gob of eggs.
Good stuff crazy how they turn dark up here Michigan and red up there
Thomas Stieg ya they look awesome when they are that red color!!!! Way better then black lol
Great Lakes salmon are disgusting and highly polluted too. Eating guidelines are pretty restrictive and sometimes none for pregnant women
@@littlegoobie , We don’t have that problem here in Alaska. We got the cleanest water on earth, any longtime Alaskan resident knows to fish near the ocean before they start turning color!
That look spawning
You think smh
3rd comment
I want to catch the fish they are using as a hat ...
Those salmon don’t exist anymore they are endangered thanks to guides
Everywhere I have seen guides they are pricks. Must be up there to.
They just commercialize the sport.
@@cammontreuil7509 exactly!! I mean I love to see people come up here and catch a dream fish and I don’t blame the customers but the kenai river has the biggest salmon in the world and the guides have officially killed off 90 percent of the chinook salmon in that river not to mention they act as if they own the river and are complete assholes to the locals but the most important thing that pisses me off the most is that these dumbass seem to be completely unaware of preservation when the fishery is open you’ll see hundreds of boats out on that river and 80 percent of them are guides and each boat will land a few chinooks a day and they bonk every single one of them like I said I don’t blame the tourists for it I blame the guides. Not to mention most of the guides are coming up from Canada and Origen so they come up here in the summer time bonk hundreds of fish that are on the verge of extinction and then fly there happy asses back down to wherever they came from and don’t keep and single one of there native fish because
@@trevornewton9687 my uncle showed me how to ruin a favorite fishing hole for snaggers and combat/guides. Take the cloth off a bed spring and put it in the middle of the hole with some barbed wire hanging off it.
He ran a cable off one hole too.
Get creative.
Another thing I have done in fear of extinction I have planted fish in creeks that are not known to have fish in them.
Read Chuck Yeagers book. He did same thing. He saved a strain of California golden trout by transferring them to another state.
His book is enlightening.
I don't sit around. I do something. Even if it's a small something.
@@cammontreuil7509 yeah that’s super smart but unfortunately taking fish from one body of water and moving them to the next here in Alaska is extremely illegal and can get fined extremely high prices the only thing I can do is try to inform the people who visit about this problem and hope someone with more fish and game power then me will somehow shut down the fishery for a solid 10 years or at least till they get the numbers of fish in the river to rise
@@trevornewton9687 shut it down every other year or even only allow only a certain amount of license for guides.
Or drop the limit to one fish.
I have fished nearly all rivers in Washington, Oregon and Norcal.
On the Smith, you are able to keep 5 Chinook each season. 50 and 60 pounders still are caught each fall.
The river is well managed. Roudy creek is in the lower river and has a hatchery. All native fish are free to run up the forks by themselves.
At a lower boat ramp, a fish counter counts adults going up river and smolts traveling down stream.
Barbless hooks only.
At Bonneville dam on Columbia the count fish. Counts can be seen on websites.
If Alaska rivers are so economically important, counts and care have got to come into play.
In Norcal tree huggers came in to play to save the giant coastal redwood.
Need that kind of people in Alaska to save precious runs of salmon.
An interesting read is to see salmon run investment in upper Cowlitz river above the dams.
What sucks about the klutina is it’s so far upstream the kings are red and not in good shape, plus that river kills people every year with its power and col water! Kenai is not what it used to be when I fished it in the 80’s and even 90’s, too crowded and much smaller kings, and who wants to combat fish ship creek nowadays in los Anchorage? Get out to “real Alaska “!😉👍
I love the klutina! Some great memories made on that river!!!!
@@thefisherbrad , Very dangerous river along with the copper river. Those unfortunately kill a few fishermen every summer. Just curious, why fish so far inland in Alaska for spawned out kings when you can get heathy crome bright ones in, or near saltwater? You should try Kodiak someday for saltwater kings! Most there are kenai bound big ones and feeder kings and the biggest on average coho anywhere!😉👍
@@troyottosen8722 I’ve heard that from a lot of people seeing where jet boats have sunk down and became part of the river. And I’ve only ever been to Alaska twice and both times have been in august! If I go again I plan to go sooner and try for some chromers!
@@thefisherbrad , Next time fish closer to saltwater for fresh Kong’s in June, early July, chrome coho on Kodiak island is best in late August through mid September!whats awesome about Kodiak island is no part of Kodiak is more then 15 miles from the ocean, the rivers are short, clear and not crowded, and there are approx 10 you can drive to from Kodiak town, but no crowds if you take a floatplane and stay at one of many recreational cabins you can rent, all on rivers full of sockeyoand coho, and the bonus is you are “literally fishing with giant brown bears”, few people, etc...
That sounds epic!!! I’ll have to talk about some buddies of making the trip!