The name of the river is Izanieknik, and it is floatable by raft or kayak. The Togiak River is a large river compared to other rivers in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. During a rainstorm the river can rise and become cloudy in just a few days, depending on the intensity of the rainstorm. The scenery is incredible throughout the entire float, and so is the camping. Many scavenger animals are present, including brown bear.
Birds are also in abundance in the refuge.
However, because of the motor boat traffic traveling between the lake and the native village of Togiak, wildlife sightings are rare, especially during the berry picking and salmon drying season. Lake trout, rainbow, arctic char, dolly varden, arctic grayling, northern pike and salmon are all available in the Togiak River. The king salmon season is from the fifteenth of June through the last week of July. The reds and chum salmon start coming into the river about the last week of June, and are available until about the first week in August. The silver salmon start showing up about the last week in July, and keep coming into the river until early September.