Seasons

Though AWS has a superb chum salmon escapement late July through the middle of August, we generally concentrate on the Camp’s coho run, which is essentially a month long, from late August through late September.

These silver salmon begin to flood in on the twice-daily tides (nearly all of your homewater fishing is tidally influenced…yes, these fish are BRIGHT!) about the 20th of August each year, and the run steadily increases in intensity as the season progresses. By early September the numbers of silvers in the river right in front of camp is predictably amazing, and they continue to stack up until nearly the end of the month. In that same month-long period, the sea-run Dolly Varden – which have been entering the river since June and are stacked in the upper reaches of the stream – are changing into their striking spawning colors, and will climb all over any fly even remotely resembling a salmon egg. These trout-like gamefish average 12-18 inches, with the occasional 20+ inch specimen a welcome daily surprise!