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If you come to Ketchikan Alaska be prepared for salmon fishing like you will never see in the lower forty eight. We've got great king, silver, pink and chum salmon fishing right in our backyard. We have salmon fishing that will make you arms tired and your back ache!

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 Ketchikan Salmon Fishing 

King salmon show up first in May. The most productive way to fish kings is trolling whole herring or cut plugs. They tend to run deeper than the other salmon species 20 feet to 200 feet. Kings are the hardest fighting of all the salmon species with line peeling and rod busting runs. If you tie into a really big one it's time to start the boat and run at him to get some line back. The average time to land a king is about fifteen minutes. If you hook into a really good one it can take over an hour. The average king salmon weighs about 20 pounds with a trophy over fifty like this one at fifty six. We do catch feeder kings all summer long but the best king fishing is in June or July.

 Ketchikan Silver Salmon Fishing 

Silvers show up about the first of July and are here through the first week of October. Ketchikan has some of the finest silver salmon fishing Alaska has to offer. Trolling or mooching are the most productive ways of fishing. When you get into a school of silvers feeding it's something you will not soon forget. It's not uncommon to have every rod in the boat fire off at the same time. That's when the fun begins. Four silvers jumping and rolling and crossing lines. That's what Alaska silver salmon fishing is all about. If that's not enough throw in a bunch of pinks and a few feeder kings. I think you get the picture,  Ketchikan fishing is truly incredible!

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