Salmon Run from Above

Neat drone footage from Alaska. My parents sent it to me. Enjoy.

http://twistedsifter.com/videos/drone-captures-alaskan-sockeye-salmon-run-from-above/

Awesome beautiful

That is so cool to see.

Stunning

Watching vids from your desk in the middle of winter gets a guy by for a while- but if you’ve never been up you really should treat yourself to a fishing trip like no other and position yourself in the lower stretches of rivers where all these salmon start their run to spawn. You just can’t imagine the strike and energy from these fish that have never seen a lure or fly. https://youtu.be/ZHATOGLDyp8

Wow.!! If they were only WALLEYES. Lol. … Awesome video.! … rrr

That’s hilarious RRR, but unlike eyes these fish actually fight!

river rat randy wrote:

Wow.!! If they were only WALLEYES. Lol. … Awesome video.! … rrr

Alagnak Pete wrote:

That’s hilarious RRR, but unlike eyes these fish actually fight!

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>river rat randy wrote:</div>
Wow.!! If they were only WALLEYES. Lol. … Awesome video.! … rrr

…Lol. If they Fight anything like River Run STEELHEAD they would be a he!! of a lot of FUN.! ….. rrr Ps if they only tasted like EYES.

Sockeye or Red Salmon will not strike a lure. The technique used to catch sockeye is called flossing and it can be done with a fly rod or a bait casting rod.
Reds on the Kenai river can average between 6-10lbs with a big one running 12lbs.
I’ve been to Alaska twice and caught a lot of reds. They fight very, very hard but interestingly, they will only fight as hard as you do. So if you want a good, hard fight, start by setting the hook hard, lift your rod high in the sky and pull. The fish will come flying out of the water and then take off.
If you fight them gently, they will fight back gently. I learned all this from the local guides we had last year. Great time and super tasting fish!

Silvers and Kings (along with rainbows and other fish) will all strike a lure and are also a ton of fun to catch. Silvers in my opinion are the most fun to catch. They are slightly larger on average than the reds, taste excellent and will give you an excellent fight.

Kings are the best fighters but they can be a bit hard to get a hook into at times.

If you’ve never done it, put it on the bucket list! I’m going back again next year.

First two pics are reds. 3rd picture is a silver.
Last picture = Halibut! Can’t go to Alaska without doing a halibut trip!

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Pictures didn’t show up the way I thought.
This is a silver.

Salmon above are all reds.

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Great video! I’ve got to get back there!
This picture was taken near Soldatna after a day of fishing on the Kenai. I’m holding the little 50 king (better picture of her in my profile pic) and my brother is holding his 70 male copper king. I have a niece up there and she’s invited my brother and I to fish with her brother in law at his fly in camp this summer.
We tried for sockeyes on the Kenai and the Russian without any luck, but we saw some nice fish caught by others.
My nephew-in-law ( a bear researcher up there) and one of his co-workers netted a bunch of sockeyes on the Kasilof River near the Kenai after we caught our kings. Each head of the family can subsistence net 25 fish apiece and another 10 for each member of their family with 5X5 homemade nets wading. They’d net the fish and my brother and I would clean them right there. This went on until near 1 am and it was still light out. What a surreal night and trip.

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Wow! That’s a big king.