After seeing all the great coho posts, I thought I'd contribute my best coho day here in Alaska for the season. I lurk and get a lot from these boards.

After getting my start kayak fishing in Grays Harbor, I'm finding its definitely transferable to Alaska! I'm surprised more folks aren't doing this. I LOVE my fuel bill! lol.

Shot on Labor day, I pedaled 5 miles out one way to reach the "spot" after a slow day closer to town. That's a little under two hours. Limited time available so used heavier equipment and was "meat" fishing hatchery cohos. one for four day one fishing just 3 hours. 10 for 10 day two but actively fished only 2 hours.

Doc's hang back rig with herring was the best though spinners or frankly anything would have probably worked.

First part of video is deployment of gear to landing a fish and stowing it...fortunately that only took three minutes uncut.

Coho fishing with downriggers from a Kayak - Valdez, ak

Here's one more.... chicken halibut caught a little earlier in the year.

Halibut from a kayak - Deep Creek AK


Thanks for the site. Not only informative but almost always entertaining!