Kenai River Dipnetting Report July 29, 2016.
Sockeye salmon fishing at the mouth of the Kenai River has been very slow in 2016. Read on and see what the forecast is for the remainder of the season.
Our latest in a series of Kenai River Dipnetting Reports is from Friday, July 29, 2016 when the fishing remained very slow, both gill and set netter's were out in force but they too were not finding any gold in the returning run of sockeye salmon. Fish and game continues to say there are lots of fish in the inlet so why are we not seeing them in the nets or in the river? The only winners in this year’s fishery seems to be the town of Kenai with their ridiculously overpriced fees for Alaskan residents participating in this subsistence fishery;
- — $35.00 boat launch fees,
- — $25.00 beach camping fee,
- — $45.00 and $55.00 overnight parking fee, No RV Hookups Included,
- — $20.00 Day Use fee,
- — and now a $10.00 drop off fee.
On the good side, Safeway has fresh wild caught sockeye on sale for $9.99 per pound and we're about to finish up the new media room at the house; much cheaper to buy fish these days than fight the crowds attempting to fill the freezer subsistence fishing.
Pokemon Go hunting is the bright spot and there were more people taking part in this newest form of entertainment then there were fishermen swimming in the frigid waters of Cook Inlet. Will this new game replace fishing on the Kenai Peninsula? It already looks like it's happening with literally hundreds of people partaking in this semi-virtual world of online gaming.