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Fishing in Alaska

Click a region to explore top fishing spots, species, and local tips.

Alaska has over 3 million lakes and countless rivers across a vast wilderness larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined. The Kenai River produces world-famous king salmon exceeding 60 pounds, while Bristol Bay offers the largest sockeye salmon runs on Earth. Remote fly-in fisheries in the Brooks Range and Alaska Range provide trophy Arctic char, grayling, lake trout, and northern pike in pristine settings, and the coastal waters of the Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska offer world-class halibut, lingcod, and rockfish fishing.

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Southeast Alaska

Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Inside Passage -- Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Halibut, Rainbow Trout

Southcentral & Kenai

Anchorage, Kenai River, Homer, Seward, Mat-Su -- Chinook, Sockeye, Rainbow Trout, Halibut

Interior Alaska

Fairbanks, Denali, Yukon River, Tanana -- Arctic Grayling, Northern Pike, Chinook, Chum Salmon

Southwest Alaska

Kodiak, Bristol Bay, Aleutians, Katmai -- Sockeye Salmon, Brown Bear, Char, Halibut

Northwest & Arctic

Nome, Kotzebue, Brooks Range, Barrow -- Arctic Char, Dolly Varden, Arctic Grayling, Sheefish

Gulf Coast & Copper River

Cordova, Valdez, Yakutat, Copper River -- Copper River Salmon, Halibut, Steelhead