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Alaska Silver Salmon start filtering into the Little Susitna River and Deshka River in mid July and into the Talkeetna River in early August. These explosive silver bullets are virtually flashes of lightning, as they burst out of the water like misguided missiles. When you come upon a school of these dynamic 6 to 18 pound silver salmon, hold on and watch them perform!  It's non-stop fishing action until the cooler is full and silver salmon fishing limits are filled.

 

Fisherman's Choice Charters fishes the Alaska Silver Salmon all the way through September.  Alaska Department of Fish and Game set up the weir and began monitoring the Alaska Salmon fishing on the Deshka River here in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley (Mat-Su Valley) on May 29, 2005. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game calculated Alaska Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) escapement at a whopping 47,887 fish before pulling the weir from the cold water on September 6th, 2005. This number is 45,645 more Silver Salmon than went through in 2003!

 

With the Deshka River being open to bait fishing the entire Silver Salmon fishing season, Fisherman's Choice Charters was able to provide its silver salmon fishing clients with a better than 95% success rate!

 

Alaska Fish and Game also counted Alaska Silver Salmon on the Little Susitna River from August 4th through September 21st. 16,839 Alaska Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) passed through the weir on the Little Susitna. This number is compared to the 11,000 that escaped in 2003.

 

This made it really nice for our vacationing fishermen as well as the local Alaska Salmon fisherman. With both fly fishing rods and spin fishing gear, the bait fishing opening for Silver Salmon on the Little Susitna River on August 6th sent a wealth of fishing clients home with sore forearms!!

 

As for the Talkeetna River here in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley there is no count taken. However, the Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) run was much larger than normal.

 

The Talkeetna River also came to life as the Alaska Chum Salmon fishing run was stronger than ever as well. Though not a great eating fish, the Chum Salmon are larger in size and will "bulldog" you all the way to the bank.

 

This also made for some great Rainbow Trout fishing as the lack of Silver Salmon eggs in the water made for a hungry and aggressive Rainbow Trout!