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shee's and dollies
Posted by TradBow on Jul 31 2005
Try the kotz area for shee's early spring before they migrate into the river systems. The yukon and it's tribs also produce shee's on a regular basis. The tanana and chena also have shee's early in the spring however the run is small and extremely sporadic. We picked one up burbot fishing last spring (04) and had multiple hits we could not hook for whatever reason.
Dollies try the kenai or talkeenta again early spring when the smolts are out migrating. Try and get on with Mahays the first trip of the season or better yet run a jet boat up to the dolly hole yourself. If the mainstream tal is dirty fish clear creek. Pearl jigs or any smolt patterns will do well however bring multiple patterns. They'll catch onto one pattern after awhile. It seems like everytime you change you pick up a fish or three then they go lock tite to it. CHange again and bam. The pearl jig is consistent. Along with some fairly large olive damsels have produce when the smolt patterns stopped. Bring some zuddlers or any sculpin immitation.
For the shee's try flashy. Pixies with spinning rods or a white with somekrystal flash leftys decievers. These are predator fish. You can also pick up shee's throught the year up at the confluence of the Dall, Ray and any other river on the yukon. Some areas are better then others and the fish move so one day can be hot the next nothing. Fish the dirty yukon water clear water seams....there is usually a clear water pocket we cannot see right at the dirty water line that fish tend to hold in.
if you hunt, hit the atigun and ivishak rivers for char. Same thing as a dolly). Pixies seem to be the standard though any spoon will produce along with any baitfish immitation. There is some fantastic char fishing in the sag most pass up. If you have access to a river boat there is some awesome fishing for char on the ivishak come mid august. It's a ways up though. Any deep hole will produce if fish are around.
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