Situk Alaska Steelhead 

Thank you very much! I agree completely on wanting to go back, we were supposed to be there last spring but COVID kept us from making that happen. Can't wait to get back and use the knowledge we gained to do better on the next trip!

@@wildfishwildplaces5079 - Knowledge of the Situk is priceless so each trip you make to the river you will become more productive and you will also learn what to bring and what to leave at home. I've floated the Situk many times but also have gone upstream of the bridge and wade fished the river. Not having to deal with a boat has some advantages. There is a trail which allows you to hike 3 miles upriver of the bridge and that makes for more than a full day of fishing if you really work the river as you wade back downstream. I had a driftboat when I lived in Anchorage and fished on the Kenai River. The driftboat was nice but I always enjoyed walking and wade fishing the best as opposed to hooking up to trout, steelhead and silver salmon out of a boat. We had many an argument about who's turn it was to walk back upstream and get the boat.

Totally! We went back this year and took only single Gamakatsu barbless hooks and a ghost net! They kept rolling up in that shitty net and I apologize for that. Thank you

Yeah you are a lucky man to have fishing like that on a home water! Spoiled indeed LOL thank you for reaching out ...stay in touch

the situk.. the winter run go into the lake and the mouth freezes over blocking the mouth.. once it thaws those winter fish that held over go.back into the river and spawn with spring fish.. they eat in the lake all winter and even though they are dark like a boot they fight like they are right out of the ocean.. in April and may you get a mixture of fish coming out of lake and fish coming in from ocean dime bright.. there are many 20+ lbers some well over 42 inch fish caught on the situk every year.. every one of my friends caught a 20 lb steelhead on our my first trip there.. they absolutely love to eat spoons on the situk.. I hooked 50 something fish on spoons in 2.5 days on my first trip there..when nobody else catching.. those we're all in around log jams, up under cut banks and brush along the banks.. the pods of 100+ fish that were sitting in the middle of the river were not interested.. maybe one fish out of 300 you could see would react to a spoon.. I figured that out day one.. the water temp was a degree warmer close to the bank and those fish you couldn't see were actively chasing and biting.. on my first trip, first day I landed 14 up to 17 lbs pitching, jigging, swinging spoons in the shadows along the bank, brush and log jams.. .. the average fish was about 12-13 lbs.. I lost a crap load of spoons probably 50 or 60 spoons on that trip..

@@kennethcuddeford1403 spoons you say..... I'll be there late April. Good info 👍

First run is on the world fishing network, then amazon prime then here. Although this one made YT before Amazon

How was your trip in "11"

@@wildfishwildplaces5079 very very good... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V8ilvwAtX0U.html

My man single barbless hooks for the win. You will drop some but that's the game.

Thank you