Kodiak Commando's A.K. adventures, check for updates.( big male coho)

[Kodiak Commando]

My favorite topic on this forum is TFB's trout of fame and now that big red is doing something similar i dedided it would be fun to have a chronicle of my fishing year. It may start out slow (At least compared to TFB and big reds topics) but once the summer turns around expect lots of updates, probably at least every 2 days. My goal for this topic is to get a trophy fish posted for a dolly, halibut, rainbow, steelhead and all 5 species of salmon.

[TroutFishingBear]

I personally can't wait for this. I know your fishing smokes mine...my updates will be very slow until early july, except for the occasional big bluegill I will post. When the rivers turn muddy here, I really don't have anywhere else to go that produces consistently. Can't wait to see a 15 pounder! Good luck.

[Kodiak Commando]

Here are some pics from a recent trip. I am fishing a lake that has only a mile of shoreline but has lots of 4 to 6 pounders with a few 8 pounders. I'ts defentetely not as good for big bows as the big alaskan rivers but hardly anyone fishes it, probably just me and my friends. I didn't catch any monsters but it's the first good kodiak open water bow fishing i had in a while. I caught 8 total including a 21 inch 3 pounder that i realeased. Since i was alone i couldn't take any pics of fish i released without hurting them but next time i should be with someone else.


A nice 14 inch bow caught on a thunder creek fly.


Another nice 14 incher

[TroutFishingBear]

Looks like pretty country! Those trout are good eating size ones. Thanks for sharing.

[gillmaniac]

nice!!

gill

[Kodiak Commando]

This was the first time i have fished saltwater since september and i was fishing for dollies on a beach within city limits about a 5 minute drive from my houst. I caught 10 dollies in the hour leading up to high tide.


The beach i was fishing


A dolly in action


A nice 16 inch hen dolly varden

[AD]

Wow sweet Dolly.   You ever keep any to eat?   

[Hood]

Dollies! I used to catch them on a real old computer game for a real old Mac computer, dont remember the name of the game but there was some great dolly fishing! Nice catch, WTG!! 

[Kodiak Commando]

I rarely keep any dollies on purpose. Sometimes i will guthook some and have to keep one. They don't taste bad by any means but i just don't keep them that often.

[AD]

They can be such a nice looking fish that they are too hard to keep, nice to see them swim away sometimes.   

[PGKris]

Man you would have loved the one we caught in the Nass last year when we were chinook fishin. We thought it was a sockeye until we got it to shore Real beauty. I wanted it released but my buddy's dad caught it and he wanted dinner so into the pan he went. They taste really good. I think it weighed about 8 or 10 pounds. I've never been able to get them in the chuck (mainly because I've only done it twice)......what do you use to get them? (If I can be so bold) Thanks dude
KRIS

[Kodiak Commando]

Nice fish, PGkris! I have only caught one over 8 pounds in my life and i go after dolly's a lot!

I don't have to be bold on telling you what to use because many things work. These dollies are gorging on candlefish so they can fatten up. Many baitfish patterns will work, Clausers, smal Surf Candies, Thunder creeks just to name a few. If if it's a long slender baitfish pattern, it will work!

[PGKris]

I used clausers both times no luck but I'll stock my boxes with a few of my own minnow patterns that I use for Bulls and Lakers here. Thanks dude

[Kodiak Commando]

I caught this nice 25 inch rainbow on a kodiak lake fly fishing from my pontoon boat by myself. The photo isn't too great because it's hard to take pics by yourself in a pontoon boat without hurting the fish but that hen bow was great and is still swimming!!!

[troutbum]

great pics KC, nice rainbow