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Four big factors can help you decide when to come. The fishing, the weather, the quantity of bugs, and the hours of daylight. I have charted out a fishing calendar for the three different rivers that we float.

In general the best weather is in June and early July and it slowly gets more and more rainy.

The bugs take the opposite view. They are most prevalent in June and early July and they get less and less numerous as the season progresses.

The longest day is June 21 with virtual 24 hours of fishing daylight. The days gradually get shorter and shorter so that on September 1st the fishing day is  7AM to 9 PM.

The charts below show when the best fishing is on each river -  it is complicated and the best et is to either concentrate on your favorite fish or hit a week on the Alagnak that overlaps a large variety of fish.  There are very few weeks you can get the peak of the trout fishing and the peak of a salmon run - the first 2 weeks of July.  Once the salmon arrive in droves they disperse the trout throughout the river pushing them out of their favorite holes,  some of the big trout follow the sockeye run and head into the smaller rivers like the Moraine.  So the Alagnak will actually have less trout in it Late July than in June!

The only time dry flies work well is on the Alagnak in June and early July, and on the Grizz in July. The rest of the trout fishing is streamers and egg patterns until you hit August and then it is almost all egg patterns or flesh flies (fished like a nymph with a dead drift and an indicator)

The Alagnak Calendar

Moraine Creek

Grizzly Creek

 
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