I fished the Talkeetna just below the mouth of Clear Cr. in early July about three years ago. Hooked many big red kings. The fish weren't fresh but boy!, fighters every one of them. Forget the gun, and those little bites you feel on your line aren't smolts, their big kings! Set the hook fast as you can when you feel those little bites.

BD
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Bobber Down

"It makes no sense to regulate salmon habitat on land while allowing thousands of yards of gill nets to be stretched across salmon habitat in the water"

John Carlson, Gubernatorial Contender, Sept. 2000 speech at the Ballard Locks