The downtown Anchorage Ship Creek Slam’n Salm’n Derby kicks off Friday at 6 a.m. and it’s shaping up to be the best Derby in many years. A big surge of big king salmon has been filling the creek for the past 10 days, with a 43-pounder the largest weighed... Read more
Ship, Bird Creeks open for silvers
Fishing July 13, 2018
The two most popular Anchorage silver salmon fisheries open at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, with the jury still out on whether this year’s run will be a repeat of the excellent run of 2017. Ship Creek has been closed to fishing since July 3, when a horrible return of king... Read more
Ship Creek Derby winds to muddy end
Fishing June 16, 2018
The year’s Slam’n Salm’n Derby on Ship Creek is winding to a muddy end after torrential rains Friday night again flooded the creek with high muddy water. The 28.95-p0und king was still leading as of this morning, among just 98 kings weighed in through Friday. The derby ends at... Read more
Small start for Ship Creek Derby
Fishing June 10, 2018
Smaller and fewer would be the key words for Saturday’s opening day of the 2018 Slam’n Salm’n Derby on Ship Creek in downtown Anchorage. No king salmon topped 20 pounds and only a few topped 10. That’s a big difference from 2017 when many kings exceeded 30 pounds. The... Read more
Ship’s kings off to slow start but building
Fishing June 5, 2018
By Lee Leschper There are king salmon in Ship Creek. And if you put in enough time, are good enough, and especially lucky enough, you might catch one this week. I watched one of the regulars, who I know only as Peter, hook and land an honest 30-pound king... Read more
Ship Creek: Celebrating The People’s Fishery
Fishing May 20, 2018
Editor’s note: As the first king salmon of the year are being caught from downtown Anchorage’s Ship Creek, and the fish and fishermen return in droves, it seems a perfect time to take a longer look at the most popular urban fishery in America. By Lee Leschper It was... Read more
First king of 2018 from Ship Creek
Fishing May 18, 2018
The Anchorage fishing season officially started Thursday night with the first king salmon caught from Ship Creek downtown. Dilly Vue caught the 19-pound hen Thursday night on a #6 blue Vibrax spinner. It will still be 10 days or two weeks before the main push of kings arrives in... Read more
Ship Creek fishing seminar
April 11, 2018 0
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is hosting in conjunction with Dustin Slinker, owner of The Bait Shack, a long-time fishing business on Ship Creek banks, an introductory seminar on fishing for king salmon in Ship Creek at the William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery (WJHSFH). This seminar is... Read more
Ship Creek silver limit goes up to six fish
Fishing August 25, 2017
The good to great season on downtown Anchorage’s favorite fishery continues, as ADF&G announced Friday that the daily limit on silvers in Ship Creek goes to six per day. It’s been a strong year of fishing and salmon runs on Ship Creek, with a good June run of king... Read more
Ship Creek king season extended, bag up to two
Fishing July 11, 2017
Ship Creek king salmon fishermen will get some bonus days and fish this year, thanks to a better than usual return of kings, plus the desire to let anglers fish for silver salmon even after they’ve caught a king. Fishing has slowed down the past week in the creek,... Read more
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