| FRENCHY'S FISHING CABINS |
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 | The Kenai Peninsula area offers diverse fishing opportunities for recreational and personal use anglers. Anglers can target four species of North Pacific salmon; pink, coho, sockeye and chinook. Anglers can also target salmon stocked into various landlocked lakes. Popular fisheries also occur on the area's anadromous stocks of Dolly Varden, steelhead trout, and smelt. Resident stocks of rainbow trout and lake trout also support popular sport fisheries. Adjacent to the mouths of the Kenai and Kasilof River and on the west side of Cook Inlet small numbers of anglers target halibut, razor clams and several species of hardshell clams. |
Two runs of wild Kenai River chinook salmon combine to support the largest recreational fishery for this species in Alaska. Wild coho salmon returns to the Kenai River support the largest recreational freshwater coho salmon fishery in Alaska. Additional coho salmon fishing opportunity is provided by stocking landlocked Kenai Peninsula lakes. | |
The Kenai River also supports a relatively new (a significant harvest has occurred here since the mid-1980's) recreational sockeye salmon fishery. This fishery has expanded significantly in recent years and is now the largest sport fishery for this species in Alaska. The area also supports two personal use sockeye salmon dip net fisheries at the mouth's of the Kenai and Kasilof rivers and a gillnet fishery at the mouth of Kasilof River. These personal use fisheries are open to Alaska residents only. Non-resident anglers may not participate. |
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Pink salmon return in large numbers to drainages during even-numbered years. Major fisheries for this species occur on the Kenai River wild stocks. Dolly Varden are found in most freshwater drainages of the NKPMA. This species supports a major fishery in the Kenai River drainage. Numerous smaller streams and lakes support this species, providing additional recreational angling opportunity at roadside as well as more remote locations. | |
 | Streams which support major rainbow trout fisheries are the Kenai River (supporting both a harvest oriented and catch-and-release fishery), Russian River (primarily a catch-and-release fishery by regulation), and the streams and lakes of the Swanson River and Moose River drainages. To provide additional fishing opportunity, landlocked lakes are also stocked with this species. |
