Float Fishing Guides Alaska Fishing for Salmon and Trout

For King Salmon River, Kanektok, Rainbow, Alagnak, Salmon River Upper Nushagak Aniakchak rivers

Alaska trips originate in Anchorage. Spend the night in Anchorage before the trip. Try to arrive sometime around 3-4 P.M. the day before the trip. We recommend The Marriot Courtyard Hotel, their toll free number is 800-314-0782 or (907) 245-0322.. Over the years we have found them to have consistently great service. They provide free shuttle service to and from the airport and they can store your extra suitcases and unwanted things while you are on the river. It also works well for us if everyone going on the trip stays at the same place.

The day before the trip we meet you at the Marriot Courtyard Hotel for our pre trip meeting in the lobby at approximately 5 P.M. After you get to your room, give us a call, (local 783-2216) so we can make arrangements of just when to meet you and the rest of the group. We will give you your waterproof gear, sleeping bags, plane tickets and go over details of the trip.

Transportation to the bush villages: King Salmon, Dillingham and Bethel. Ouzel Expeditions books your round trip jet flights to the bush for you. Flight costs are additional and cost about $380 tax included per person. You pay us directly by check or you can put your flight on Master Card or Visa with Ouzel. Our fee is 3.5%. Flight costs may vary. Flight arrival and departure details and times will be in your confirmation letter from us once you sign up.

Have a good breakfast the morning your trip departs. We travel a long way the first day. Early in the morning take your hotel’s free shuttle service back to Anchorage International Airport. Ouzel will meet you there one hour before your flight departs. Next we take a jet to King Salmon, Dillingham or Bethel. Once there we collect our bags hop in the van and drive over to the float plane base to load the float planes and fly into the Alaskan wilderness. We unload the float planes and the guides begin pumping up the rafts and loading them for the float down river. Off we go! Each night we camp on the gravel bars.

Daily Schedule: Coffee is at 7 am, breakfast is at 8. We break camp and we're floating by 9:30 or 10. We float around 10 miles each day stopping and wading and fishing. This only take 3 or 4 hours so we have lots of time to stop and fish. We stop at around 5 or 6 and the guides do the work of setting up camp and you're able to fish and relax. Fishing around camp is good evenings and mornings. Sometimes we stay in one camp location two nights. We call this a layover day. We fish around and it makes a nice break in routine. It's always nice to get floating again and be on the river seeing new country every day.

At the trips end: The planes come in at mid day and we reverse the entire process. Float plane back to Dillingham,King Salmon, Bethel or Aniak and take the jet to Anchorage and take the shuttle back to your Hotel. You leave your borrowed waterproof bags etc. with the Marriott Courtyard staff at the front desk.