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- Coarse Fishing
- Carp Fishing
- Sea Fishing
- Game Fishing
The Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge ensures professional management of this unique island located 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. Kodiak is the second largest island in Alaska and is home to over 4,000 brown bears (the world’s largest bears) Ursus Arctos Middendorffi a subspecies of the brown bear. These huge bears get on with their lives of surviving, minding their own business and feeding on the rich supply of grasses, seasonal berries and salmon.
Fully guided by experienced professionals you have a unique opportunity to view amazing wildlife and enjoy great fly fishing. Pink runs are prolific along with Chum, Sockeye and Coho. Salmon runs are seasonal from summer through into autumn and the Coho runs can vary in numbers from year to year. 2024 was a slow year for Coho Salmon throughout Alaska but 2025 hopefully will experience a bounce back.
All our accommodation/guided fishing packages require 1 night in Anchorage and 1 night in Kodiak City outbound and the same inbound. That adds 4 nights to your wilderness camp package which is generally 6 or 7 nights. Extended stays are possible.
Sams Rohrer Bear Camp.
Accessible by float plane and helicopter from Kodiak City. Basic but comfortable cabins, excellent home cooked meals and top guides. This camp caters ideally for groups of 2 to 6 persons. It is the perfect location remotely located on the northwest coast in a sheltered fjord. Excellent fly fishing on an easily wade-able small river with a variety of deeper runs, pools and shallow glides. Wildlife and photographic opportunities are superb for Kodiak bears, fox, sea otters, bald eagles and Sika deer.
Pink Salmon are referred to as pink because these fresh run silver fish hit anything pink in colour. They average 4 to 8 pounds and give a great fight on an 8 weight rod. Vast runs of pinks run the smaller rivers and creeks from July onwards. Chum and Sockeye enjoy good runs and generally start early August although some will run these rivers earlier. Coho, silvers, are the sought after and highly acrobatic salmon reaching weights of 20 pounds. They tend to run September through into October. Little River tends to have more consistent runs of Coho salmon but peak runs can vary from year to year. Mid to late September is generally the.
Clouser and egg patterns are most effective with chartreuse and white and pink/purple and white (with a small amount of flash) good colours. June through into autumn offers exceptional fly fishing for Char (Dolly Varden) and rainbow trout. Some of the larger char are sea run and can achieve weights of up to 8 pounds. The general size of char and trout is in the 2 to 4-pound class. Great fun on a 5/6 weight rod. Strong hooks are essential (barbless).
Our Kodiak Wilderness camps are exactly that. Toilets are “long drop dunnies” dug out each season. No flush toilets here as its back to basics. Toilet paper is supplied and you have great views! Take bio degradable wet wipes with you as there are no showers. This is true outdoor wilderness living.
