2 blocks from the Hilton
With another small creek spring season under our wading belts our gears shift from miniatures to monsters. The jump from 5-12″ creek trout to Alaskan king salmon sounds like a rediculous transition but this is where D and I found ourselves last Friday with heavier spey rods in hand.
Typical urban king | Photo: ADN
This local flow sits in the heart of downtown Anchorage and gets a healthy run of stocked chinook and coho salmon every May-July (kings) and July-September (coho). A virtual melting pot of fishing, this local hot spot is home to 2 fishing derbys and thousands of fishers from tourists to purists. Most come out with any and all types of gear from roe, spinners, the ever popular pixies and more. In a place where anything goes, we found ourselves right at home tucked in a clear stretch of high bank perfect for spey casts.
D's Loop
Though there were no pulls that day, you can bet we will be bankside during lunch for the next few weeks until the trout opener.
[...] and I did try our luck at some urban kings. I bet Tuber and I are the first ones ever to swing a two-hander down there. We got a lot of [...]