Question:

What fly do you recommend for silver salmon on the Nushagak river in August?

Answer:

Hi kwilson196@gmail.com,

Thank you for your email. My favorite flies for the Nushugak are:

  1. Popper Wog – pink (topwater)
  2. Foxy Wog – pink (topwater)
  3. Dolly LLama #2 – black/white, pink/purple, pink/white and fuchsia/white
  4. Lead Eye Egg Sucking Leech #2 – fuchsia, purple, fl. pink (steamer)
  5. Polar Egg Hareball and Hareball Leech #1/0 – fuchsia, pink, and Aleutian Queen/uurple (Streamer)
  6. Kilowatt – pink, purple and black/blue (streamer)
  7. Mr. Bodangles #1/0 – pink, fuchsia/blue and black/chartreuse
  8. Deep Six – pink, cerise/white, pink/purple
  9. Wild Thing – pink  and black

I hope that you find this helpful. If you have more questions, please shoot me an email to mike@alaskaflyfishinggoods.com. I can help you put together a cart if you need or like.

Tight Lines,

Mike Cole
Web Manager