Fisherman's Choice has been awarded the #1 Fishing Charter for Trophy Alaska Salmon Fishing Charters and Trophy Trout Fishing Trips in the Mat-Su Valley. Just a short drive north of Anchorage, Alaska; with 3 rivers to choose from, we know where the fish are and we take you to them! We give our clients the best Alaska Salmon Fishing experience you can have!

  

Alaska's Matanuska Susitna Valley (Mat-Su) has some of the best Alaska fishing anywhere in the state. At 22,683 square miles , Mat-Su Valley is nearly as large as the state of West Virginia. With an area that large, you need a GREAT Alaska salmon fishing guide service to show you where the best salmon fishing spots are. Fisherman's Choice Charters is an Alaska salmon fishing charter service, offering Alaska's world class salmon and trout fishing trips on the Deshka River, Talkeetna River and Little Susitna River. We are located in south central Alaska just 90 minutes north of Anchorage and minutes from Wasilla Alaska, en route to Alaska’s famous Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park. As a family owned and operated Alaska Salmon Fishing Charter Service, our goal is to share the excitement of Alaska Salmon fishing trips and Alaska Trout fishing trips with everyone. Whether you're a seasoned fishing expert or a family on your first Alaska Salmon Fishing Trip, we give you a fishing trip that will leave great memories of  FISHING ALASKA. 

 

 

At Fisherman’s Choice Charters our Coast Guard Licensed Salmon Fishing Guides offer personal, one-on-one fishing instruction to the inexperienced Salmon and Trout fisherman. Yet we offer the freedom of the river to those more skilled, and we provide our clients with top quality gear.

             

Our fishing season begins in late April for Alaska Rainbow Trout, followed by Alaska King Salmon fishing which begins in mid-May. When the Alaska King Salmon fishing season closes on July 13th, the Alaska Silver Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Chum Salmon and Pink Salmon fishing is coming into full swing. The salmon fishing season runs well into September, here in South Central Alaska, and is followed by trout fishing. Trout Fishing is great until freeze-up, in early to mid October.

The largest fish we boated, last season, was a monster Alaska King Salmon caught on the Little Susitna River weighing just over 41 pounds.

HOW MANY FISH??!

They counted a good number of Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) at 14,088! They also counted Alaska Silver Salmon(Coho Salmon) at 6,825 and 78,853 Alaska pink salmon before pulling the weir from the cold water on September 16th.

Though no count is taken for Rainbow Trout, the trout fishing on the Deshka River was phenomenal, as they spent their autumn days feeding on the eggs of the Pink Salmon, Silver Salmon and King Salmon that had spawned their way up Mat-Su’s infamous Deshka River. Alaska Fish and Game also counted Alaska Salmon on the Matanuska-Susitna Valley’s (Mat-Su Valley’s) Little Susitna River, from July 17th through September 09th. As always the weir was not in place on the Little Su until after the Alaska King Salmon run, there is no official count. However, there was a very solid run of Alaska King Salmon with many large fish caught.

An escapement of 6,770 Alaska Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) and 4,476 Alaska Pink Salmon  passed through the weir on the Little Su north of the launch, at our Homestead here in Houston, Alaska. The Chum Salmon (Dog Salmon) run count was  at 23,846 for 2012. The  Alaska Sockeye Salmon run on the Little Susitna River just north of Wasilla, Alaska, was at a all time low of 236 fish thanks to the poor management of the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game.

Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game also counted 18,813 Alaska Sockeye Salmon (Red Salmon) at there weir site on Fish Creek near Anchorage and Wasilla, Alaska. They also counted, in Fish Creek, 1,237 Alaska Coho Salmon (Silver Salmon).

As for the Alaska Salmon runs in the 2013 fishing season, they're predicting another fair/good year of Alaska King Salmon, a good/great year of Alaska Silver Salmon and Alaska Sockeye Salmon. This should be another great fishing season for the Alaska Salmon Fishing Industry! 

If the Alaska fly-fisherman is lucky, the passion becomes manageable, second nature, like tying knots in the dark, reading a deep Alaska river or Alaska stream by an undercut bank and knowing where the Alaska trout and Alaska salmon are holding and which Alaska fly to use. But having gone through the novitiate, Alaska fly-fishermen are never the same again. They scan Alaska rivers, seeing water but imagining the life underneath. They concentrate for hours, Zen like, watching the Alaska Midnight Sun dance on the Alaska Rivers, gazing at Alaska streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight of an Alaska Rainbow trout, or Alaska Salmon, that near perfect fish, as it fins and darts, drifts and feeds in clear Alaska water.

Those visions take hold while Alaska Fly Fishing, and simply won't let go.

When you think of Alaska Fishing and especially Salmon Fishing or Fly Fishing Alaska, think Fisherman's Choice Charters, for the very best fishing experience, when you fish Alaska!

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1-day Alaska Fishing License $20.00	1-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $10.00
3-day Alaska Fishing License $35.00	3-day Alaska king Salmon Stamp $20.00
7-day Alaska Fishing License $55.00	7-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $30.00
14-day Alaska Fishing License $80.00	14-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $50.00

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