We started out optimistic but ultimately didn’t have much luck fishing today either.  We saw a few very big salmon in the river and a number of them on other peoples’ stringers and at the cleaning table.  We made it all the way out to the confluence of the Kenai and the Russian Rivers.  Fishermen were not shoulder to shoulder but they were close enough together to have to coordinate casting.  We stayed on the fringes.  I mostly watched.

We were hampered somewhat since we only have boots not chest waders.  To protect the river banks and spawning cover the actual banks are closed.  There are designated walkways into the river and fishing is actually done standing in the water.  Waders let fishermen get to more places in the river….all the places where the fish are of course.

We are probably too timid too.  One has to be pretty aggressive to get a spot in the prime area at the confluence.  We will have plenty more opportunities to fish but there is a fair chance that we will be having our fresh Alaskan salmon at a restaurant!

Catching something would have made it a better day but it is hard to complain about bright, sunny, and 73F.  The people watching kept it interesting.