Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) begin their Alaska journey from the Pacific Ocean to their individual spawning waters on Alaska's Little Susitna River, Deshka River and Talkeetna River in Mat-Su Valley north of Anchorage, Alaska.  Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) first enters the Little Susitna River and Deshka River in mid May, and the Talkeetna River in mid June.  On Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley Rivers, the mighty Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) ranges from 25 to 85 pounds in size.

 

The largest fish we boated in 2011 was a monster Alaska King Salmon caught on the Little Susitna River, weighing in at 51 pounds.

With the low and clear water conditions on Mat Su Alaska's Little Susitna River, we began fishing and landed our first Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) of 2011 on May 18 th, giving us a "boated" count of 19 Alaska King Salmon by June 1, 2011.

 

We continued fishing the Little Susitna River, reaching a solid 90% success rate of Alaska King Salmon until we pulled out and moved to the Deshka River when bait fishing season opened on May 25th.

 

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game set up the weir and began to monitor the Alaska King Salmon (Chinook Salmon) fishing on the Alaska Deshka River on May 24, 2011, which is one of the earliest counts for the Alaska sport fisherman.

 

The final Alaska King Salmon count on the Deshka River was 19,026.

 

Unfortunately there is no count taken on the Alaska Talkeetna River here in South Central Alaska. However, there was a very strong run of Alaska King Salmon and we were able to limit out almost every trip leaving a large number of clients with full coolers and sore arms!

 

As for the King Salmon runs in the 2012 fishing season, Alaska Fish and Game Biologists are predicting a decent run of Alaska King Salmon, thus presenting Alaska Fisherman's Choice Charters with countless satisfied Alaska King Salmon fishing Anglers!