ok sucks was a bad way to describe the kenai, it is after all.....THE KENAI, but the big k is best fished from a boat, there is bank access, but it costs you ten bucks everywhere you park... the boats get the bulk of the fish, last year it flooded at record levels and really threw the fishing out of whack.. especially for the bank and wade fishermen, the smaller more intimate rivers and streams have less fish, but less pressure, so you can fish the kenai for 1500 kings that might be in, in most likely sub-par river conditions, with 600 other guys, or you can go fish a lesser river with 500 fish in it with 20, or less other guys, drive down to homer and take Mako's water taxi over to the fox river, sheep creek or the deadended sockeye run in halibut cove, take the ferry over to kodiak for the weekend and fish the Buskin for silvers, the amercan or 4x4 down to saltry cove for some steelhead. Deer season opens on august 1st and the road system on kodiakis full of them. There are 50 streams on the kenai penn that have steelhead, that are huge.. kodiak has the largest kingsalmon run outside of bristol bay, the karluk is a must fish for any king fanatic.. you can have a charter boat take you to the barren islands and you can fish for landlocked silvers in an untouched lake.... I guess what im tryin to say is if your heading to alaska for a whole summer... don't get hung down on a tourist trap like the kenai.
