Our 2018 coho (silver) salmon season is off to a wonderful start with consistent catches of large coho salmon starting on Sunday July 21. Feel welcome to read our July 2018 Alaska Fishing Reports page to learn about how our 2018 silver salmon season started. August is peak month for catching silver salmon … Read more
For 2018 we will be guiding salmon fishing trips for chum salmon and silver (coho) salmon during the entire month of July. The first chum salmon can start showing up in late June, and numbers build throughout July — with peak chum salmon numbers during the last half of July. While our guests have … Read more
Alaska Fishing Reports for June 2018 These are fishing reports for Fishtale River Guides operating in the Mat-Su Valley north of Anchorage on the Little Susitna and Deshka Rivers. During May, June, July, August, and through September 15 we focus on guiding trips for ocean-run salmon in this beautiful part of Alaska. June is … Read more
May 2018 Alaska Fishing Reports — During our 2018 Alaska salmon fishing season we plan to fish Little Susitna River as our primary destination, but we also guide trips to Deshka River and Susitna River tributary streams. You may want to bookmark this page so you can easily refer back to it in the future. … Read more
Save $20 per Person on Select May King Salmon Trips — Join us on a 6-hour guided fishing trip on Tuesdays Wednesdays or Thursdays between the dates of May 8 — 24 and save $20 per person. These are guided boat trips with quality fishing gear provided to either the Deshka River or Little Susitna River. … Read more
November is often the month we start guiding our first ice fishing trips of the winter. It usually is not until late November (around Thanksgiving time) before we are comfortable with taking guests out on the ice of our local Mat-Su Valley lakes. December almost always has good ice conditions and some of the better … Read more
October is usually a month spent preparing for next year’s guided May – early September salmon fishing trips. Once again I’m building a some new custom fishing rods guests will have the opportunity to fish with on our summer salmon charters. Typically my winter ice fishing trips do not start until late November. October 2 – … Read more
During September we are still targeting silver salmon — mostly on the Little Susitna River. The earlier part of the month provides better fishing for greater number of silver salmon in the lower river than later in the month. As the month progresses more of the salmon start to develop a pink or reddish blush … Read more
August is our best month for harvesting silver (coho) salmon in the Mat-Su Valley. We may fish both the Susitna River drainage (including the Deshka River) and the Little Susitna River during August. Bait fishing is open at most Susitna River drainage locations for the entire month of August, while the Little Susitna River bait … Read more
July is the month where our guests may catch all 5 species of Pacific salmon found in Alaska. In early July king salmon are the most abundant salmon in both the Little Susitna and Deshka Rivers, but as the month progresses fresh-run chum salmon and then silver salmon both make their appearance on the … Read more