Well I've been up there twice, and both times we stayed at the silver king lodge. One trip was in the middle of june and the other in the end of july. We didn't do well on either trip for kings though. We spent most of our time fishing "livies" (live herring) and you just couldn't keep the dogfish off. Most everyone fishes out by the lighthouse hole, it seems to have the best concentration of kings. My buddy and I spent more time on the second trip fishing for steelhead. We went up and caught several summer steelhead on the gold river, we also caught some fish on the heber river, now that is a cool little creek! While we were out fishing the salt though we did get into some killer bottom fishing for lings and caught several lings in the upper 20's. I truly don't plan to ever go back. I had spent the two junes prior up in sitka for a week each time. Now that is worth the money. 30-40 fish days on fish that are 25-35 lbs. and an occasional slab.. We guided ourselves up there though. We had stayed on Mertz Island and had access to our own boats.
keith

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