Lack Of Ship Creek Coho Postpones Fishing Event

Late-arriving coho salmon into Anchorage’s Ship Creek prompted a delay for this past Saturday’s scheduled Coho Rodeo fishing event of at least two weeks. Alaska’s News Source has details in the video above and in this report:

Slinker said the end of July and the beginning of August is typically the peak of the coho season. He said he hopes the run is building slower this year. The Rodeo’s delay has impacted business owners, anglers, tourists and Alaskans trying to fill their freezers, he said.

The limit for cohos in Ship Creek is three per person per day, three in possession. Slinker said people can fish all day and get only one or two fish. Slinker said he can normally sense when the fish are running when anglers start to hit their limits and schools of salmon fill the creek.

“Our schools have been 12 to 30 fish when it should really be two to three times that size and multiple schools of those spread out throughout the creek,” Slinker said. “So just looking in there, they’re not there.”