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Alaska Fishing
Alaska
Salmon & Alaska Trout Fishing Trips with Fisherman's Choice
Charters
 Thanks to our Alaska fishing clients for voting
us
Mat-Su
Valley's Best Fishing Charter Service
again
in 2010!
We appreciate your support.
Voted Mat-Su
Valley's Best Alaska Salmon and Alaska Trout Fishing Charter in
2000, 2001,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010!
More first place wins than any other Alaska Salmon
Fishing Charter!
 
Fisherman's Choice has been awarded the #1 Fishing Charter for
Trophy Alaska Salmon Fishing Charters and Trophy Trout
Fishing Trips in the Mat-Su Valley. Just a short drive north of
Anchorage, Alaska; with 3 rivers to choose from, we know where the fish
are and we take you to them! We give our clients the best Alaska
Salmon Fishing experience you can have!   Alaska's Matanuska Susitna Valley
(Mat-Su) has some of the best Alaska fishing anywhere in the
state. At 22,683 square miles , Mat-Su Valley is nearly as large as the
state of West Virginia. With an area that large, you need a GREAT Alaska
salmon fishing guide service to show you where the best salmon
fishing spots are. Fisherman's Choice Charters is an Alaska
salmon fishing charter service, offering Alaska's world class
salmon and trout fishing trips on the Deshka River, Talkeetna River and
Little Susitna River. We are located in south central Alaska just 90
minutes north of Anchorage and minutes from Wasilla Alaska, en route to
Alaska’s famous Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park. As a family owned
and operated Alaska Salmon Fishing Charter Service, our goal is
to share the excitement of Alaska Salmon fishing trips and Alaska
Trout fishing trips with everyone. Whether you're a seasoned
fishing expert or a family on your first Alaska Salmon Fishing
Trip, we give you a fishing trip that will leave great memories of FISHING
ALASKA.
 At Fisherman’s Choice
Charters our Coast Guard Licensed Salmon Fishing Guides offer
personal, one-on-one fishing instruction to the inexperienced Salmon and
Trout fisherman. Yet we offer the freedom of the river to those more
skilled, and we provide our clients with top quality gear. The drive from Anchorage to these prime
fishing rivers alone is an Alaska experience not soon to be
forgotten, with frequent opportunities to view Alaska’s pristine
mountains and wildlife.
ALASKA FISHING SEASON
Our fishing season begins in  late April for Alaska
Rainbow Trout, followed by Alaska
King Salmon fishing which begins in mid-May.  When the Alaska King Salmon fishing season closes on July
13th, the Alaska Silver Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Chum Salmon and Pink
Salmon fishing is coming into full swing. The salmon fishing
season runs well into September, here in South Central Alaska, and is
followed by trout fishing. Trout Fishing is great until freeze-up, in
early to mid October.
The largest fish we boated, last season, was a
monster Alaska King Salmon caught on the Talkeetna River weighing in at 68
pounds, 9 ounces which is believed to be the largest King
Salmon boated in the Mat-Su Valley, in 2009. Unfortunately the proud
angler had not signed up for the Mat-Su King Salmon Derby and the prize
was taken by a 57 pound King Salmon for a $10,000 cash prize! So don't
forget your King Salmon Derby ticket when you fish for the Alaska King
Salmon with us in 2010!! You can buy them in Wasilla, Alaska
at Sportsman's Warehouse Fly Shop.
We will also have Alaska Sportfishing Licenses and
Alaska King Salmon Stamps available for purchase.
HOW MANY FISH??!
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game set up the
weir and started monitoring the Alaska Salmon, on the Deshka River in
South Central Alaska, just north of Anchorage in the heart of the
Matanuska-Susitna Valley (Mat-Su Valley), at 11:00 am on May 29, 2009
which is one of the earliest counts for the Alaska King Salmon.  They counted a good number of Alaska
King Salmon
(Chinook Salmon) at 11,960! They also counted Alaska Silver
Salmon(Coho Salmon) at 27,348, before pulling the weir from the cold
water on September 8th. This Alaska
Silver Salmon count shattered all escapement records, in the
history of the Alaska Matanuska-Susitna Valley’s Deshka River. The
Alaska Pink Salmon (Humpback Salmon) numbered 9,954.
Though no count is taken for Rainbow Trout, the trout fishing on the
Deshka River was phenomenal, as they spent their autumn days feeding on
the eggs of the Pink Salmon, Silver Salmon and King Salmon that had
spawned their way up Mat-Su’s infamous Deshka River. Alaska Fish and
Game also counted Alaska Salmon on the Matanuska-Susitna Valley’s
(Mat-Su Valley’s) Little Susitna River, from August 4th through
September 24th. As always the weir was not in place on the Little Su
until after the Alaska King Salmon run, there is no official count.
However, there was a very solid run of Alaska King Salmon with many
large fish caught.
 An escapement of 9,523
Alaska Silver Salmon (Coho Salmon) passed through the weir on the Little
Su north of the launch, at our Homestead here in Houston, Alaska. The
Chum Salmon (Dog Salmon) run was quite light in 2009, as was the run of
Pink Salmon. Although the Alaska
Sockeye Salmon run on the Little Susitna River just north of
Wasilla, Alaska doesn't migrate far enough north to reach the weir and
be counted, it was a solid run.
Unfortunately there is no count taken on the Talkeetna
River. However, there was a very strong run of Alaska King Salmon
and we were able to limit out almost every trip. The Chum Salmon and
Pink Salmon came in in large numbers, as usual, and though not the best
eating fish, they are super fun to fight. The Sockeye Salmon run was
also generous and we had a large number of clients leaving the river
banks with full coolers and sore arms! 
Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game also counted 83,480
Alaska Sockeye Salmon (Red Salmon) at there weir site on Fish Creek near
Anchorage and Wasilla, Alaska. They also counted, in Fish Creek, 8,214
Alaska Coho Salmon (Silver Salmon).
2010 ALASKA SALMON FISHING
PREDICTIONS
As for the Alaska Salmon runs in the 2010 fishing
season, they're predicting another fair/good year with strong runs of
Alaska King Salmon, Alaska Silver Salmon and Alaska Sockeye Salmon. This
should be another great fishing season for the Alaska Salmon Fishing
Industry! Keep watch for updates on our Fishing
Reports page.
Fly fishing Alaska for Alaska Trout
and Alaska Salmon is a sport of it‘s own. It takes patience and skill to
learn and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff
that snobs use flies, while Fly Fishing Alaska, as an excuse to keep
bait goo off their hands, Alaska fly-fishermen approach the sport with
an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch
Alaska trout and Alaska Salmon, while fly fishing in Alaska, is a
complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the
fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by over 1,000,000
fisher people.
The type of Alaska Fly Fishing Flies we use for Alaska
trout fishing and Alaska Salmon fishing are Black Egg Sucking leech,
Crystal Purple Egg Leech, Sucking Bunny Leech, Purple Egg Sucking Leech,
Egg Sucking Crystal Bugger, Purple Egg Sucking Crystal, Brown Sculpin,
Olive Sculpin, Woolhead Sculpin, and the Alaska Dolly Llama.
If the Alaska fly-fisherman is lucky, the passion
becomes manageable, second nature, like tying knots in the dark, reading
a deep Alaska river or Alaska stream by an undercut bank and knowing
where the Alaska trout and Alaska salmon are holding and which Alaska
fly to use. But having gone through the novitiate, Alaska fly-fishermen
are never the same again. They scan Alaska rivers, seeing water but
imagining the life underneath. They concentrate for hours, Zen like,
watching the Alaska Midnight Sun dance on the Alaska Rivers, gazing at
Alaska streams running over moss-covered rocks, searching for the sight
of an Alaska Rainbow trout, or Alaska Salmon, that near perfect fish, as
it fins and darts, drifts and feeds in clear Alaska water. Those
visions take hold while Alaska Fly Fishing, and simply won't let go.
When you think of Alaska Fishing and
especially Salmon Fishing or Fly Fishing Alaska, think
Fisherman's Choice Charters, for the very best fishing experience, when
you fish Alaska!
Alaska Fishing License and
Alaska King Salmon Stamp Prices
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1-day Alaska Fishing License $20.00
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1-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $10.00
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3-day Alaska Fishing License $35.00
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3-day Alaska king Salmon Stamp $20.00
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7-day Alaska Fishing license $55.00
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7-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $30.00
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14-day Alaska Fishing LIcense $80.00
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14-day Alaska King Salmon Stamp $50.00
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The Best
Of Alaska Salmon Fishing Trips.
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