Middle Kenai Aug 3

So I tried the middle Kenai again since marine weather didn't look so hot.

Fishing was slow. Water visibility was bad. Below the Killey, it was a lot worse.

4 dollies that totaled 30 inches...lol. Tangerine 8mm beads caught all of them. Flesh zero.  I did stop at Kenai Keyes and managed a red. Still catchable numbers but got to work at it. Got mine in two casts. Next hour-zero. The other 5 people hooked up maybe 5 times in that hour.

The Lake had two to three footers with white caps. It didn't look as scary, but it felt twice as scary. Part of it was I had to travel virtually broadside or tack and quarter into the swells. As the wind blew me to shore the waves got even bigger the shallower it got.

I know people ask about fishing the ocean alone, but the rivers are scarier to me. The hydrology of the river catches your rudder or fins in the oddest way. I know it wasn't close, but it felt like I was about to tip twice. Be very careful of sharp turns in a fast river. 

When everything is going right, the fishing is easy and controlled. But a momentary lapse of concentration like when untangling your line and danger can approach fast.

Continue to be impressed with the Hobie. Forgot my life vest on shore when I took a break...Duh!! Realized it almost a quarter mile later. Pedaled upstream in moderately fast water,  got lucky and cut through a channel and retrieved it. Wow.  Did not think I could do it.

I'll probably wait till the water comes down before trying it again.

My "biggest" dolly.



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Did better than me! I trolled a lap around summit lake. 1 12 inch rainbow.

Great write up. Rivers scare me way more than the ocean does...not saying that it's a rational comparison on my part...but that's how it is. The flow of a river is often less predictable and more focused than an ocean current. Or, so it seems.

And, Matt....he may have done better than you...but you did better than me. I mowed lawn. Bleck.