Everyone knows big fish are meat eaters - that's how they get so huge. And the biggest freshwater brutes in Alaska, whether trophy rainbows, lake trout, arctic char, or northern pike, are all opportunists who won't pass up any meal they can swallow. Mickey a fly pattern most fly casters should have in their arsenal when searching for that truly impressive fish.
And whether they are fattening up in the fall by gorging on salmon eggs and flesh or going into feeding frenzies in the spring and early summer wolfing down alevins and outmigrating smolt, its an annual process that provides the angler many opportunities for catching trophy fish. No one can dispute the fact that Fall is Alaska's premier time for trophy rainbow trout and Dolly Varden fishing. As millions of salmon begin to spawn throughout the rivers and streams, trout and char follow them upstream to feast on the clouds of loose salmon eggs which wash from the redds during the process.
And you don't have to spend four figures to enjoy these remarkable fisheries. Just about any stream with spawning salmon will have trout or char nearby.
Many of these drainages can be reached from the road systems in Southcentral Alaska and the top area would be the Matsu Valley where a large number of prime streams cross the Parks Highway.
