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Resurrection Bay Area Fishing Report

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Current Sport Fishing Report

September 01, 2009

Emergency Orders and regulation reminders

  • Resurrection Bay is always closed to lingcod fishing. If you harvest a lingcod in North Gulf Coast waters, you cannot fish in Resurrection Bay on the way back to port.
Salt waters
Halibut
  • Halibut fishing has been fair to good with the highest catch rates occurring at low slack and for about two hours into the flood.
  • Inside Resurrection Bay, halibut fishing been fair for chicken halibut.
Salmon
Silvers:
  • Silver fishing outside of Resurrection Bay continues to provide some good action.
  • Inside Resurrection Bay, silvers are dispersed and fishing has been fair. Try fishing in a variety of locations to locate schools and maximize your catch.
  • Trolling produces the best results when fish are dispersed as they are now. 
  • The shoreline silver salmon fishery is slow and the fish have not hit the beaches yet. The first location to look for silvers within casting distance of shore is at the South Beach on Lowell Point. Try prospecting there for that first beach bite.
Kings:
  • Expect slow fishing for king salmon as most fish are caught while targeting silvers. Be sure to examine your catch closely and identify what you have.
  • The bag limit for kings inside Resurrection Bay is two per day, any size. 
Other salt water fishing
  • Lingcod fishing is always closed in Resurrection Bay.
  • Elsewhere in North Gulf Coast waters lingcod fishing is good.
  • You CANNOT use rockfish for lingcod bait. If you catch a rockfish and a ling bites onto it while you are reeling it up, the lingcod must be released.
  • Rockfish are easy to catch and have a conservative bag limit. They do not survive release well, so once you have your limit, fish for something else.
  • The rockfish daily bag limit is four per day, of which only one may be a non-pelagic (demersal) rockfish; an identification chart depicting pelagic and non-pelagic rockfish is found on page 10 of the Southcentral Alaska Sport Fishing Regulations Summary.
Shellfish
  • A North Gulf Coast shrimp pot fishery permit is required for those participating in the personal-use shrimp pot fishery between Aialik Cape and Gore Point. The shrimp pot fishery is open only to Alaska residents with current sport fishing licenses or ADF&G Permanent ID cards. North Gulf Coast shrimp pot permits can be obtained at ADF&G offices in Anchorage, Homer, or Soldotna; they can also be obtained at the Alaska State Troopers office in Seward.
  • Check out pages 56 and 57 of the 2009 Southcentral Alaska Sport Fishing Regulations Summary for regulations on this fishery, and page 63 for shrimp pot requirements.
Fresh waters
Salmon
  • Fishing in the Resurrection River is reported to be slow, but a few coho are nosing into the system.

  • Only single-hook artificial lures are allowed in this area.

Rainbow Trout, Dolly Varden, Arctic Grayling
  • Anadromous Dolly Varden are heading back into freshwater streams and lakes to spawn. Try fishing small silver spinners and spoons in local lakes with outlets to the ocean to catch these sea run fish.
Northern Pike
  • Northern pike are not native to Southcentral Alaska. Please report the capture of any pike in unconfirmed waters to ADF&G. Do not release any pike you have caught.
Lake Fishing
  • Try hiking into Carter Lake for some nice rainbow trout action.