Just thought I'd show you guys what a sockeye run looks like here in Alaska

[captainjac15]

Take a look. Sockeyes are on the move. We have Kokanees in Utah, same fish, sockeyes just go to the salt to get big. These fish are running 24- 32" on average. I am a guide up in Alaska during the summer, Utah in the winter. This is a pretty average run morning during late July here in Southwest Alaska. I took this in the morning today, you might want to turn down the volume... it was a bit windy.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/41k2yrel6frwgv...3.mp4?dl=0
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[dubob]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I saw the same thing when I was stationed at King Salmon, AK in 1975. All the small feeder streams to the Naknek River would be solid red from bank to bank when the run was on. The numbers of fish were absolutely HUGE - in EVERY stream.[/#800000][/font]
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[Blackellunge]

living the dream! cool video
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[captainjac15]

These fish swam past King Salmon, (a little to the west) by way of the Kvichak. HAHA, The Naknek flows into Kvichak Bay, so these guys swam right past the mouth of that river and made their way up to us. We are about a 45 minute bush flight north of King Salmon, AK. These guys are still silver and good eating right now, but within a few weeks they will be all red with green heads and spawning up the rivers around here. I won't fish for them then, but I will be fishing egg patterns and beads for some big fat rainbows that migrate in to feed amid the sockeye spawn.
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