Alaska Fishing with Ron Buntrock: August 2007

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Last Day of the Kenai River King Run

Well here's the story, the winds blowing in the lower River , a cold one, so we stayed up river for the last 1/2 day on the River, we caught some other fish, but in the last 10 minutes of the season , we had seen this fish roll in the morning and wouldn't bite , then again at noon , I seen him roll again , he rolled a few minutes before we hooked him , and the battle was on, we shook that plug in front of his face till he just rolled right into it , hats off , to all the good fisherman that I had the pleasure fishing this 2007 season , its been a great season for Dad with their Daughters , and Dads with Sons and just the Family outing with the entire family , the true spirit of family still remains in the "Land of the Midnight Sun", see you in 2008 I have 12 days open for the season....................
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Patelco Continue large fish run on Kenai River

Patelco always has a great run of fish to pick through, not this year , we had to wait for the fish , as the nets were in and getting more outside than we were getting up the river, we waited and waited then it happens , we worked for every bite the last few days , but the wait was worth it winning the big fish award for the last day a a good solid 45# Kenai King, Big Al ended up with his fish , we had other fish released but not hardly eating size ........we'll see you next year and will get a bigger one Greg...........good fishing boys

Old friends meet in the strangest place's

JP come walking up just like he's done since high school, with a friend from Oregon and staying with other good friend Ronnie Mankins from Medford, it was just like old home week . one problem catch the girls their fish, problem solved , good tides , great water conditions and the right bait, magic numbers of fish, results almost a matched pair with the smiles to go with it ............Jimmy hands off to you buddy and good seeing you again , like we talked , we just took some time off fishing, now we have to make for lost time , see you soon on the Rogue

Bobby D Lavern's group, the girls are on fire


Well Ive had some great outings in the Pacific Northwest , and Alaska, but none will hardly ever top the day we landed all of our fish, and the girls both having Parkinson's disease, if there's a God, he gave those girls the strength for just a brief moment in time to stand toe to toe with a July strain Kenai King and win the battle , brings tears to my eye's now did then too , I gotten some proud moments over the years , but none as precious as the brief moments that the girls had this day....................

Montana boys are back and landing Kings

Ive fished these boys before and I'll say it again , if you needed a boat full of go getter's , you would have to look long and hard to find a better team of young men than these kids from Montana, always a smile , never any problems , but we did manage to break a Rod, and in the process caught some dandy Kings, cant wait till next year to see the kid's from Kalisbel Montana/

All hands on deck , we are catching more fish

Check out these smiles from the Weyerhouser group, it doesn't get any better than this for Salmon fishing, great weather, it did just stop raining, water conditions are good and the water temps are fair but cooling a little, good numbers of fish are passing by the sonar on a daily basis heading for the spawning areas, we are seeing more fish moving around and even sitting on the spot , were they like, we are hoping for a huge fish any day


Weyerhouser crew continue to get Kenai Kings

Well we had to name one of the new plugs, after Berkley;s Daughter Morgan, the new name "the double Morgan" and Pat held his end of the bargain up drilling a good fish at the start of each day , hat off to Berkley , Morgan, and Pat for being such a great crew , we are already for next year again , and good luck to Morgan in her new job right out of school, I bet she's wearing sandal's at the job sight eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riverbend Group get into some July Kings

Nice fish, great grade of fish for this part of the run, we are seeing the last of the late June Kings and the starting of the July late run Kings, water conditions are still good, temps are good and the counts are looking better everyday, nice group to fish, looking forward to next year already ........

Wayne you have a great family



Just take in stride, this family from Texas are the stuff that vacations can be wrote about , the girls absolutely had a ball and Mom did too , see didn't catch a fish, but by that smile she sports at the end of the day , says it all, what a great fun day to get some great people a few good fish, we hope to see you guys again one day on your next trip to Alaska ............

Dale Earnhardt Jr, could be ............on the Kenai

I thought it was when he introduce himself but he had to race that night, so he brought his Dad , Big Dave with him from Idaho, what a great team of fisherman this was , we had it going we had lots of fish for targets , and we were real selective on what we kept , giving water conditions and the perfect weather conditions along with some great tides , you just could not beat the days fishing on the lower river or the Kenai, "Hats of to Dale" what a great kid..............

The Hardy group , get some good tides on the Kenai


Hey did we have a great goup this week , we had great water conditions , great temps , water and daytime, and a good number of Kenai Kings to shoot at every day, a good grade of fish for June, not much boat traffic, and good times by all , thanks again Tom Hardy group , for such a great week on the Kenai River .........


Sandvik team up on Kenai Kings

Water conditions change and so did the bite, but that didnt stop David and his Son from catching the Kings , we would have liked to hooked more , but we took some fine fish no the lease. Again the water conditions play a big part in the June fishery on the Kenai River, the counts continue to build with more fish everyday .......

George and Bruce, get rolling on the water

here's a good shot of George with a nice upriver bright early run Kenai King, what a great day of fishing. by June 12, we had already had good numbers up the river to lift the bait restriction, with great water conditions we continue to catch Kings

Kenai Kings on the move with great water

The Kallapos group , started catching kings right off the back , the fishing was ok for the first part of the month of June , with the water conditions the way they were, a little low and clear. The bite would work pretty good as the tides were moving the fish.

Gary Gull kicks the Alaska 2007 season off

Gary kicks the 2007 season off with a nice fish , water conditions were at prime with the thaw on the Kenai River , water temps were good , and the Hot Colored Silver sided Kings were on the move, the slot fish to be thrown back are 44"-55" all others may be kept, check out the 2007 seasons pictures