Jon’s a beast

Fish of a lifetime!

Thanks! That’s exciting, that should be an awesome time for you!!

Thank you! Appreciate it!

Thank you!! It’s been a blast up there!!

Thank you!

Thank you! Appreciate it!

Thanks man!! Definitely try it, it’s great!

Thanks man! Alaska sure is a special place!

It was amazing!

Yeah you are😏

I’ll definitely have to give it a shot! Thanks for the info!

Thank you!

Thank you!! Yeah the Russian was hot when we were up there! Super fun though, video of that will be up Sunday!

Thank you!

Oh I believe it, seems like that is almost anywhere nowadays. It’s kinda sad! Now for me it was still awesome, but it’s crazy what a decent amount of pressure does to a fishery!

What’s this place called I’m trying to catch my first king

Yeah it’s pretty nice for a cabin!

Now we gotta get one back at home!!

Thank you!! It was definitely a blast!

👊👊

That would be good! Going to have to try that!

Believe me it is good and if you want to kick it up a little bit you can add some crab meat and finally jalapeño not to much it’s good 👍

Wish I could make it up there more than once a year!

I bet that was always fun fishing for them!

They're all transplanted west coast salmon and landlocked just like the steelhead/rainbow in the great lakes. I lived in SW ontario and although the salmon are fun to catch, not many people catch any of them to keep. The meat's not good, the meat color isn't right. Every summer the stores fill up with commercial caught ocean bright salmon shipped from the west coast and people buy it up. Living in salt water with their natural diet makes such a difference.

He’s still up there! I was up there all last week and the day I left, Luke showed up!

@@NBedits oh ok i gotcha.. i knew he just got up there and he was staying in the room youre in, but when i didnt see him or hear you mention him i got a good giggle hahahaa great fish btw, bro! beauty first king!

I believe a 7’ ML Okuma

That’s what I was told to use!

I honestly am not sure, it was on the Kenai Peninsula though

When they bite the bead it slides down into the hook when you set the hook!

@@NBedits gotcha..thats pretty slick

I’ll try it! Got enough of it!

Dang, wish I would’ve tried it!

Thanks for the info!!

@@NBedits I have offered guide services for Hunting and fishing since 1978 and in 1989 I moved to Alaska to advance my guide services then came covid wrecking all of my guide work then getting me stranded and bankrupted in commie Oregon. When guiding clients from Cook Inlet sometimes I would take the clients to those creeks with the lure Jenson side planners and herring wrapped K - 14s and even K- 16s and now the K 13 would be perfect to used wrapped with herring then used all 3 creeks is a slaughter of Chinook. Just wrap all your K plugs before going to the creeks because that action is hot and fast so no time to repair a herring wrap after landing a Chinook just change to a new wrapped plug. You must know also to tune the side planner, so the trip arm won't prematurely trip with the heavy pull of the Kwik fish plugs. The side planner arm you take the lower arm after sliding the tension spring off the arms - then you bend the lower arm to straighten the arm out allowing you to slip the tensioning spring further down the wire arms making a tighter trip tension. From the Highway bridge over the Ninilchik start your side planned above the cornet and run to under the bridge is a fish on spot and the hole below the bridge is a fish on spot and all the way up is ever deeper run to bend you have hook ups. The bend hole above the deep creek bridge is smoking hot and the campground water for 3 bends down the Anchor River is absolute fish on with K fish.. On a outgoing tide to make current for the K fish and side planner you can intercept new Chinook in the Anchor River from the mouth to the line of the campgrounds. New salmon coming in are extremely aggressive in plugs and are the Coho when in and same use K-14 sized plugs with warps. Word of caution I have personally experienced with Chinook close to the mouth of Cook Intel and Anchor River is have a far sized level wind reel because once hooked these fish make a reel smoking run for the Inlet again. This spot also many times you get a Hugh Steelhead on the K fish with a large one I caught on a K 16 here the steelhead was 28 pounds of a monster. Hit the first parking stop after going over the bridge to entry to Anchor River campgrounds, this is a salmon holding zone. start the side planer always well above the fish holding water and walk a little and stop and repeat this and don't give any rod movement and no slack in the line to be just like a boat back rolling always keeping the plug working steady. Use 3 foot of a minimum or 50-pound leader to stop the fish from cutting the line when violent twisting that hooks snag the line and cut it from a fish turning and running. Don't shy away from using K 15s or K 16s because of the plug goes out of side those creek Chinook will grab the plugs. This is a way to get away from curing bait and smelly bait that gets all over you the car and sinks up everything. At the end of the day, you won't have punk stained fingers. Prep your Sardin or herring cuts in salt to keep them firmed up and stop the smelliness. Use a clear nylon sewing thread to wrap your herring strips on the plugs. Places that sell sewing goods is a best place to by nylon sewing threads.

@@NBedits At times I come back to Alaska so if you want a demonstration how to fish plugs in the creeks, I could do that for you. You will be amazing how many fish won't take a drifted bait but won't pass up a wrapped plug. I had many times AK Troppers in their normal clothing fallowing me and watch from the bushed because over time it ticked off fishermen then I think I was accused of snagging because no one catches that many salmon the creeks as I did. I was also checked in the parking by the Troopers who were dumb funded I caught the salmon in the creeks on plugs and couldn't understand what a side planned was.