Well, the rumors of the last 36 hours were verified today by the announcement of an emergency order closing the Kenai River to fishing for adult king salmon.

You can read more about the closure by clicking here .

When will the state of AK ever figure out that if they want to see the first-run ever return to a consistent producer that they need to eliminate the upriver bait fishery in early July that pulls these early fish off their beds!!!

SH!T, time to re-group

I have heard the Kenai has been having more and more problems over the years, and that the average size of fish has fallen some. My question is, will this make the other local streams much more crowded, and if so how long will it be before these other streams begin to have the same problems? Is this area that is so popular, and inundated with so many guides going to end up a thing of the past? Also in leau of this, are guides there starting to look for other areas to set up shop? Just questions. Too bad a fishery such as this had gone sour. Hope the area I go to in S.E. Ak. doesn't gain too much extra popularity as a result.

Bob is there a fish count on the Kasilof and are they coming back in good numbers ?