Fishing a remote Alaskan river without a guide

Amongst angling cognoscenti, the Kanektok in Alaska’s southwest enjoys a stellar popularity. The river flows roughly 100 miles from its supply at Pegati Lake via the Togiak Nationwide Wildlife Refuge, coursing westward between the Kilbuck and Akhlun Mountains, via open expanses of tundra, earlier than assembly the Bering Sea close to the Alaska Native village of Quinhagak. Fish right here embody Dolly Varden, Arctic char, grayling, all 5 species of Pacific salmon present in North America, and, maybe most famously, “leopard” rainbow trout, so nicknamed for his or her brilliantly coloured tremendous, spherical spots.