With many of the fish 15 to 18 pounds, it is not unusual to catch 30-50 fish a day per rod. The Silver salmon are the most acrobatic of the all salmon. Our Silvers average between 8-12 pounds, with a common size fish in the 12 to 16 pound range and occasionally fish up to 20 pounds. The average fisherman can expect to catch 10-30 Silvers per day. We catch a large number of our Silvers on dry flies.
Silvers love the dry fly.
They start in the river around August 1 st . They arrive in catchable numbers by August 10 th and they are in the Alagnak until the ice-up. Humpie Salmon Humpie salmon come into the Alagnak approximately July 25 th on even number years and are present until the end of August. They average between 4 to 7 pounds with some of the larger bucks up to 9 to 10 pounds. It is not unusual to catch 25-30 fish on any given day.