Fishing
for Coho salmon, known in Seward, Alaska as silver salmon, is some of
the most exciting sport-caught fishing on light tackle.
Alaska
Silver Salmon Fishing = “Controlled Chaos”
Alaska
Silver salmon weigh approximately 8 to 12 pounds when they first arrive
in late June or early July. Their ravenous feeding throughout the season
pushes their weight to 15 pounds or more by late summer, with a recent
Seward Silver Salmon Derby winner weighing over 22 pounds. These feisty,
acrobatic silver bullets often dart at high speeds and leap up and out
of the water only to splash back down to challenge you once again to
the fight of a lifetime.
We commonly
get two, three, four, or more salmon on simultaneously, though hooking
a silver is only part of the battle. Getting these fish netted and into
the boat before they shake your hook is an even greater challenge.
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Your Day of Alaska Silver Salmon Fishing
We
typically mooch for silver salmon. "Mooching" is a technique
where each person jigs their hook baited with a small piece of herring.
When the fish bites, the hook gets set and the fight is on. You will
find this is a more effective technique than troll fishing when the
fish are schooled up and allows the fisher to feel the bite.
The catch
limit for silver salmon is six fish per person inside Resurrection Bay
and three fish each when caught outside the Bay.
An aspiring
ichthyologist? Learn
more about Alaska silver salmon at the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game website.
Sound
good? Make your Alaska silver salmon fishing trip reservation now!
The
Seward Silver Salmon Derby
2007
marked the 52nd Anniversary of the Seward
Silver Salmon Derby. The derby is sponsored annually by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce and prizes total more
than $100,000, including tagged fish worth up to $50,000. The 2008 Seward Silver Salmon Derby will be Saturday, August 9th and end at noon on Sunday, August 17th. Don't miss it!
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