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Captain Charlie Pharr, along with his wife Donna have been leading successful, first-class sportfishing trips to exotic locations around the world since 1998. Together, we personally ensure the quality of Grand Slam's many destination packages before approving them and offering them to you.
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Katmai Lodge
Katmai Lodge is situated less then a mile from tidewater. All of our salmon fishing is done within 2 or 3 miles of the lodge both up and down the river. 75% of our salmon have been in the river 48 hours or less, which makes spectacular chrome bright salmon fishing. The Alagnak is by far one of the best rivers for Salmon fishing in the state of Alaska due to our huge runs of all five species of Pacific Salmon. Currently we have the largest Sockeye Salmon runs in the Bristol Bay Region. The Alagnak is very shallow in comparison to most rivers, its average depth is 3 to 8 feet, this makes it very conducive to fly fishing and very easy to present your fly or lure to the Salmon unlike other rivers. King/Chinook Salmon: The last week of June, large schools of King Salmon start to arrive in the river. These salmon average 30 to 40 pounds with monsters in the 70's caught each season. Once again, the fierce battle between man and beast test the limits of anglers muscles and equipment. An angler using a fly rod or gear rod can catch between 10 and 20 chrome bright Chinook each day throughout the Alagnak system. Four of the five salmon species that come into the Alagnak spawn within two miles below and forty-five miles above the lodge. Whether you use a fly rod or a gear rod, fishing for the Kings is Superb! These very aggressive fish readily attack big streamer flies or bright colored plugs. Most days gear fishermen are able to land twice as many of these huge fish as the fly fishermen. Your guide will make sure you are well prepared to do battle with these fish using any technique you desire. Silver/Coho Salmon: Silver salmon come in the Alagnak in August. These aggressive chrome bright bullets are fresh out of the ocean and looking for a fight. They are very willing players in the fly or spinning world.
The Coho of the Alagnak run from ten to fifteen pounds, even up to twenty. Once hooked, hang on! They spend half of the battle out of the water tail-walking and jumping and that’s only the first thirty seconds! These fish are the most acrobatic of all the species of pacific salmon. Chum Salmon: Hang on, the beast has arrived! Weighing in up to twenty-five pounds and as mean as a junk yard dog! If you haven't tried fishing for this salmon witha dry fly (wog),you haven't fished Chums yet. They will follow a wog for thirty, forty, fifty feet or more, looking like an alligator mouth opening and closing behind the fly as you wake it across the surface. Just as you begin to relax a little at seeing this, the tug of war begins. We have two runs of Chum in the Alagnak. The first run comes in the first of July and the second run comes in the first of August. The size of our Chum run seems to be increasing every year. Anglers can catch thirty to fifty fish a day on flies or spinning gear.
Having to endure hundreds of fish a minute swimming past you in crystal clear water is a sight and experience to behold! These fish are a very intricate part of the Bristol Bay ecosystem. They are the major food source for all the resident fish populations in the rivers. Standing ankle deep in crystal clear water, making a cast and having it answered with a series of a dozen three and four foot jumps is amazing! They jump, flip and spin all at what seems to be a hundred miles an hour. It is said if you hooked a ten-pound Sockeye and a fifteen-pound Steelhead, tail to tail, the Sockeye would drag the Steelhead upstream and drown it. Humpy/Pink Salmon:On even numbered years, we have an invasion of an additional two million salmon. Humpies are who anglers are talking about when you hear "I caught a fish every cast." These fish are very popular with families and young adults because there is constant action. Humpies average 5 to 10 pounds, you can catch them on a fly or a jig. Pink is their color of choice, throw anything in that is pink and hang on, a fish will be there momentarily! Spring Trophy Trout Fishery: The Alagnak is special, the caddis hatches are always prolific and June often has the nicest weather of the year. We have a 1 to 1 guide to angler ratio, meaning each angler receives all their guide's attention. We pride ourselves in offering the finest trout fishing in Alaska, with over 1000 miles of stream directly accessed above the lodge. We divide the river into "beats" which allows each area to be left pristine and un-pressured. Each "beat" is six miles long and is limited to only two anglers. With the river being braided, each six miles has hundreds of miles of easy to wade channels to explore.
By opening day, Rainbows have finished spawning and are feeding ravenously on Caddis and Salmon Smolt. We also fly to all the premier Bristol Bay streams, plus a few secret ones. We are ready to fish weeks earlier than most other lodges, meaning our guests have the fishing exclusively to themselves. Fall Trophy Fishery: The Rainbows are in peak condition. With months of gorging themselves salmon eggs and flesh these bows are pumped up and full of fight. These jewels of the Alagnak average in size from 18 to 36 inches.
All of our trips are all inclusive from Anchorage. PLEASE CALL US FOR RATES. ANY CHANGES IN OUR SCHEDULED TRIPS MAY RESULT IN BETTER RATES FOR YOU.
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