• The personal use season for shrimp fishing with pot gear in North Gulf Coast area waters opened on April 15.
• Lingcod fishing remains closed until July 1.

• Halibut fishing continues to be good in North Gulf Coast waters.
• Anglers having the best success are heading east out of Resurrection Bay and fishing off the headlands, or traveling to Montague Island.

• The king salmon limit in Resurrection Bay is now two per day, any size. Anglers willing to put in some time are catching these feeder kings. Try trolling with a small- to medium-sized herring and an oversized flasher.
• Stocked king salmon returning to the Seward Lagoon can be caught in the bay just off the creek that drains the Lagoon.
• Sockeyes are beginning to arrive in good numbers in the bay. The snag fishery off the mouth of Resurrection River/Salmon Creek is picking up. Anglers are reminded that snagging is only legal in saltwater.
• Sockeye are being caugh in British Columbia trolling with a flasher, trailing a bare red hook. Sockeye jumpers have been seen from Eldorado Narrows to Fourth of July Creek.

• Lingcod fishing remains closed until July 1 to protect nest guarding males.
• Rockfish are easy to catch and have a fairly conservative bag limit, so target your rockfish last.
• The rockfish daily bag limit is 4 per day, of which only 1 may be a non-pelagic (demersal) rockfish.
• Use deepwater release methods to release incidentally caught rockfish. For details, see the ADF&G Rockfish Conservation webpage at http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishingSportFishingInfo.rockfishconservation
• Pacific cod fishing has been slow.
• Dolly Varden are being picked up by spin fishermen off Lowell Point.
• Hooligan have started to show at the head of Resurrection Bay.

• There have been no reports from the personal-use shrimp pot fishery. This fishery is now open in the entire North Gulf Coast area from Cape Fairfield to Gore Point. To participate in the fishery you must be an Alaska resident with a current sport fishing license or ADF&G Permanent ID card, and a North Gulf Coast shrimp pot fishery permit. Permits can be obtained at the Anchorage, Homer, or Soldotna ADF&G offices. They can also be obtained at The Fish House in Seward.
• Check out page 63 of the 2013 Southcentral Alaska Sport Fishing Regulations Summary for regulations on this fishery, and page 62 shrimp pot requirements.

• There are no freshwater drainages in Resurrection Bay open to salmon fishing at this time of year.

• Fish for Dolly Varden around creek mouths, especially creeks where pink and chum salmon spawn.
• The Dolly Varden fishery has picked up this past week. Fish for Dolly Varden around creek mouths, especially creeks where pink and chum salmon spawn. Dolly Varden will be feeding on salmon fry heading to the ocean. The best time to fish is before high slack tide and through the beginning of the falling tide. Use small silver spoons or spinners. If you are fly-fishing, try a pattern that imitates salmon fry.

Lake Fishing

Northern Pike