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  What Do I Need to Bring On My Fishing Trips?  We provide all the fishing equipment on each trip, so you'll just need to bring along your fishing license, layered clothing, rain gear, sunglasses or glasses, lunch & drinks, and bring a cooler in your vehicle...

The process of lining out an Alaskan fishing vacation may seem simple, but once you start digging into the details it's easy to get overwhelmed very quickly.  Alaska is a huge state, and an internet search exposes the hundreds of lodges, charter businesses, car rental...

Casting a spinning rod can be a slightly intimidating task to a rookie angler, but can also be learned quickly & easily with the assistance of an experienced and patient fishing guide. Our guides regularly turn hesitant casters into confident slingers in short...

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of forecasts, but there are indeed some strong trends and signs that give us a lot of insight in regards to what we can expect during the 2024 fishing season here on the Rivers of the Kenai Peninsula. Let's take an honest look at each...

    The majority of tourists that fish with us fly-in to Anchorage, rent a car, then make the gorgeous 2.5 to 3 hour drive south to us here in Soldotna. The drive is a truly magical introduction to Alaska as it winds its way around the Turnagain Arm surrounded by...

I’ve been getting this question a lot lately:   Does Fishology have guides of your own, or do you pawn us off on other guides? The short answer to that question that we do both. Fishology has a few highly trained guides that guide many of our trips. They’re all...

Alaska Fishing Client Stereotypes Over the years I’ve noticed that you can categorize the vast majority of fishing clients into a handful of groups. In fact, I can commonly detect which category a prospective guest might fall into after just the first minute or two of...

  When it comes to salmon fishing, everyone has their favorite species. Some prefer king salmon for their raw power and elusiveness, some prefer sockeye salmon for their food quality and how easy they are to access, and others prefer pink or chum salmon due to...

  The Kenai River is most famous for its enormous salmon runs. Every single season literally millions of salmon enter the river at it's mouth and invade the 80+ mile system of the Kenai River drainage. When millions of salmon flood the river, predictably...

It doesn't make much sense to spend all that effort to figure out the perfect sockeye rig, and the perfect presentation, if you're going to lose the vast majority of the sockeye you hook. And that's exactly what can happens to hundreds of sockeye anglers on the Kenai...