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 Alaska Salmon: Understanding The Tides
Posted by KodiakCommando on Tuesday, March 28 @ 08:27:55 PST
When fishing the lower part of rivers for salmon understanding how
the tide will affect the fish is key. The tide will usually dictate
where and how you will fish. Generally the best times for me is 3 hours
before up until high tide and 3 hours before until low tide. Generally, but
not always, the fish will make their push from the ocean on the incoming
tide. These fish are moving and it will be difficult to find holding
fish. There are usually more fisherman during this part of the tide. For this
reason I fish incoming tides closer to the ocean the better. Try to get to the incoming
fish before they have to pass the gauntlet of fisherman because after
they do that they become very finicky. Since they are in a hurry large
flashy flies are needed to get their attention. My favorite part of the
tide is the aforementioned low tide. Once the tide lowers the fish seem to
panic at the lowering river and tend to school up and hold. Look for
deep holes or 3 to 4 feet riffles to find fish that should easy to spot
with polarized sunglasses if they are not rolling. Try to find fish that are not
being hammered by other fisherman which is easier than at high tide.
Smaller darker flies seem to catch more holding fish
than the big flashy ones that can spook fish moving fish. Twenty fish Salmon days usually occur during high tide.
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