The incredible Nushagak River in Southwest Alaska is quite possibly the best king salmon fishing stream on the planet, and because Alaska King Salmon Adventures’ first-class camp is located right on the most productive hole on the river, you’ll be center stage for all the action.

Come enjoy a luxurious wilderness adventure and let our extremely professional guides treat you to king salmon fishing beyond your wildest dreams. Then, sample some of the outstanding fishing we have for other species like hard-fighting chum and sockeye salmon, rainbow trout, arctic grayling, sea-run dolly varden and explosive northern pike.

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The are many anglers call crappies Public Pan fish No. 1, but this certainly isn’t the only moniker attached to the species. Other colourfull nicknames abound. Throughout the south, the name is pronounced just as it is spelled. But north of the Mason-Dixon Line, the name is pronounced crappie.In various locales, they also are referred to as specks, paper mouth, silver sides, bachelor perch, speckled perch, chinquapin, and lamplighters. Still other regional names include strawberry bass, calico bass, white perch, ban lick, tin mouth in reference to their succulent white flesh.

However at still other times crappies are called names that cannot be printed here, which is usually the case during the torrid days of summer when the fish are exasperatingly difficult to find.

After their spring spawning ritual has been completed, crappies move out of the shallows and begin their well-planned journey back to deeper water, entirely abandoning all but the deepest coves and creek arms in favour of main lake areas. By mid-summer, they usually can be found associating with stump fields and standing timber on steep shoreline drop-offs or along the edges of the old river bed winding across the lake floor.

Look at now, depth levels of 12 to 30 feet. Moreover, since weeds generally do not grow at these depths, the fish predictably like to associate with standing timber, deep stump fields, fallen logs and tree crowns on the bottom. Now is when astute crappie angler’s switch gears by putting away the pin fish poles they used for live-bait fishing during the spring spawning weeks, in favour of lightweight spinning tackle. And the technique which has been popularized in the last several decades is known as stump-jumping; in other words, briefly fishing jigs in the vicinity of such bottom cover described above and then, if no strikes are received, quickly moving on to the next likely looking place, and then the next. Many anglers make so-called milk runs in which the entire day is devoted exclusively to motoring their boats along the shoreline and stopping to fish at each stump or loggerhead protruding above the surface.

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