Area Sport Fishing Reports
Yakutat

Archived Sport Fishing Report

September 10, 2015

Marine fishing


Marine fishing harvest success information can be found by following the link above right, “marine harvest rates”.

 

  • Coho angling was very good in the middle of last week. Calm weather made for some good trolling in most areas of Yakutat Bay and out by Ocean Cape. Shore and small boat anglers also found that coho had moved into areas of Puget Cove and Sawmill Bay. Coho were reportedly chasing surface baitfish off of Khantaak Island, and anglers could get limits by casting spoons from drifting boats.
  • Halibut angling has slowed a bit as anglers are beginning to target salmon. Halibut anglers are still getting larger than average fish, as has been the case most of the year.
  • Lingcod angling remains good. These fish will move into spawning areas and be less accessible soon. The season ends November 30th to protect spawning fish.
  • A few Chinook salmon were still coming in last week. These fish are hard to find in with the coho and pink schools.

Freshwater Fishing

 

  • Coho angling in most foreland streams has been good to excellent in recent days. Anglers on the Situk found that most coho are bolting up river at the high tides, and many are staging in the lower stretches of the drainage.
  • Tsiu river coho angling was good last week. Fish have been slow to enter that streams this year, and they are moving fast up river. Eastern streams like the Akwe and Italio are reortedly fair for coho angling.
  • A few coho are already turning red in the upper rivers. No real reports of fishable coho numbers in the upper rivers. Pink salmon spawning is still going strong in those areas.
  • Cutthroat trout angling has been good in areas of Lost River and other small foreland streams. Spawning pink salmon have concentrated these fish.
  • Pink salmon are spawning heavily in many of the drainages on the forelands so that the water is churned up and turbid making angling for any other species difficult.
  • Dolly Varden are moving into areas of the upper drainages to feed on salmon spawn and are beginning to move towards drainages that they will spawn in. The Old Situk is one of the streams of the forelands that have Dolly Varden spawning activity in mid to late October.

More information is available on fishing opportunities by clicking on the link to the left, Information By Area,... and navigating through links for Yakutat,... Fishing Opportunities.

For further information, anglers can call Brian Marston at the ADF&G, Division of Sport Fish in Yakutat, at (907) 784-3222.
 

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