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Tips for Anglers
Fishing licenses: non-residents
pay $20 per day, $35 for 3 days,
$55 for a week, $80 for 2 weeks,
and $145 for a year. Licenses
can be bought at tackle or
grocery stores across Alaska,
or purchased in advance at
∑ adfg.alaska.gov
Best fishing sites: the Kenai
River, Bristol Bay, Homer Spit,
Seward, and Kodiak offer the best
Combat fishing is common in Kenai Peninsula rivers when the salmon fishing. Halibut are found
salmon are running. Competing anglers stand elbow-to-elbow, along the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak
trying to land one of the thousands of fish going upstream. Island, and Southeast Alaska.
Lakes and streams across
Alaska have great trout fishing.

Waterproof waders made of
a synthetic rubber are essential
gear for anglers in Alaska.

Deep-sea fishing for the huge halibut
known as “barn doors” is especially
popular around Homer and Deep
Creek on the Kenai Peninsula.

Alaskan Sportfish
Alaska offers keen anglers excellent fishing opportunities, and a wide variety of game fish are available
in the state’s waterways and along the coasts. Salmon is the most popular catch, but halibut, trout,
and grayling are also highly prized.

King (chinook) salmon, the Arctic grayling, a game fish, Halibut, which occasionally
largest of all Pacific salmon, are is found in clear, cold streams weigh over 300 lb (135 kg),
relatively common in Bristol Bay in the Interior between April are found in the Gulf of Alaska,
and the Kenai River. and September. especially around Homer.

Red (sockeye) salmon run Rainbow trout, found in rivers Arctic char are found in clear,
from May to mid-August in from Southeast Alaska to the fresh waters in Interior and
Southwest, Southcentral, Kuskokwim Delta, are best Southern Alaska between
and Western Alaska. fished in spring and fall. May and September.

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