Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) offer an exciting day of fishing due to their acrobatic skills of leaping, jumping, diving and all the other tricks they will use to get off your hook. Pound per pound Silver Salmon are one of the most acrobatic and enjoyable fish that you can catch.
Our Silver Salmon caught within Resurrection Bay and the Gulf of Alaska usually run in the 8- 14 pound range with exceptions reaching up to 22 pounds. The waters that we fish are so abundant with feeder fish and the Silvers are voraciously feeding prior to running into fresh water for spawning that these fish can gain a pound or more a week during mid to late summer.
The Silvers begin to show up most years in late June to early July and usually are around through September. Although there are thousands of Silvers returning to our waters each season there seam to be times that are really peak. Nothing compares to hitting the Silvers
at their peak where they are schooled up and feeding. Let’s just say that you will find very
little time to even stop for a drink or a bathroom break.
At the height of the Silver run you will see Silvers literally jumping out of the water while feeding or dodging being fed upon by Sea-Lions, Salmon Sharks and Orcas. The limit for Silvers are 3 per person per day outside Resurrection Bay and 6 per person per day inside Resurrection Bay. The increased limit within the bay is due to the stocking done to augment the run within the bay.
There are not many things that you will experience more exciting than being involved in a multiple Silver hookup. We have times where 2-4 fish will be on at the same time and due to their acrobatics it is very much a dance on the boat being choreographed by the crew to attempt to prevent the lines from getting tangled. There are many thrills and tons of laughter in this event.
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