Sockeye
Impressive acrobatics on the hook!
The Sockeye is one of the best eating salmon this planet has to offer. We like to fish for them beacuse they fight similliar to a small steelhead.
Impressive acrobatics on the hook!
The Sockeye is one of the best eating salmon this planet has to offer. We like to fish for them beacuse they fight similliar to a small steelhead.
Oncorhynchus Nerka
The sockeye salmon enter the Skeena river at the end of June and run right into the end of August before they make it back up to their native rivers where they spawn. These fish are a blast to fish for on a the fly rod and are the most sought after salmon for their delicious orange-red meat. The fish average about seven to eight pounds but in the later months of the run they can reach sizes up to fifteen pounds.
They are very shallow swimming fish and put up some delightful displays of aerial acrobatics once hooked.
Like the pinks the sockeye salmon is easy to catch on a fly, and it’s easy for a beginner to get into the flyfishing world.