Fly Fishing Alaska Rainbow Trout

The RAINBOW RIVER has Grizzlies and Rainbows in great numbers. It's a low water, rock dodging challenge in Katmai National Park . It flows through beautiful deep canyons with rocky mossy waterfalls, deep pools and Rainbow Trout very little water so it's easy to wade. We have lots of time for fishing this tiny, short river. It's nice here all summer. It has an abundance of wildlife, great bird watching too. One trip in early spring we saw 17 bull moose. We've seen a wolf chase a Caribou right through camp.

In June right after the Rainbows have spawned Sockeye smolt migrate to the ocean. After not eating for a month these Rainbows are pretty hungry and ready to take anything that looks like a smolt or black leech. It has incredibly large runs of Arctic Char. We catch Lake Trout and Arctic Grayling here too. June and July has excellent dry fly fishing. The last of July or the first of August Sockeye fill the river; approximately 1 million. We saw 60 grizzly bears in one trip! This is a great time.You can't go a few casts without catching a fish on your fly rod. By September the Salmon, Char & bears are gone, only Rainbows remain.