Went halibut fishing in the morning and saw what I would consider the perfect motor sailer tied up in the Homer harbor. Then we woke up Jake (who slept through the mornings fishing), had lunch and I set out for Soldotna.
We are in an RV park right on the river and really like the river access and cleaning tables. However, Tony wanted to show us his favorite part of the river, that part from Bings landing (in Sterling) upstream to Skilak Lake.
We were quite impressed with the miles of empty bank fishing spots and clear water. Since most of the stretch is above the confluence of the Kenai and Killey (sp?) rivers the water is very clear. About all the Killey contributes to the Kenai is a lot of mud.
Upstream we could watch the Sockeye go by and catching wasn't too hard.
We've had two days of 200,000 + fish past the counter so the run is on!
The limit is still three, but it should go up to six soon. Here we still have one to go. As usual, waiting on Roger. He finally got that last fish so we could get on with the day. Total time fishing, about 1-1/2 hrs.
We went up to the mouth of Skilak Lake and drifted back for a while trying for some rainbows. Tony has a 30" bow but we are still trying to beat a friend of his who has a 34"er.
No luck on rainbows this time but tomorrow we'll be back and might get more serious. This is our new most favorite part of the river.
Weather remains ridiculously perfect.
