Salmon Camp
Your home base for salmon intelligence. Track the runs, dial in trolling programs, match spawn colors — and stay locked to salmon from here on out.
Proven Techniques Salmon
Trolling Spoons
Dodgers and flashers with cut-plug herring or spoons at target depth — classic downrigger program.
Learn more →Back-Bouncing Roe
Trophy king tactic — cured salmon eggs drifted along seam breaks in river holes.
Learn more →Swung Flies for Steelhead
Two-handed rods and intruder patterns swung through runs — the purest salmonid pursuit.
Learn more →Sockeye Flossing
Specialty technique on Alaskan rivers — sparse flies drifted at depth across sockeye schools.
Learn more →Casting Spoons to Coho
Pixees, Krocodiles, and Kastmasters across estuaries and stream mouths for fresh silvers.
Learn more →Jet Divers & Plugs
Magnum wiggle warts and K-16 kwikfish back-trolled through kings holding in river slots.
Learn more →Recommended Gear Bass Pro
Seasonal Pattern
Notable Salmon Waters
Kenai River
The iconic king salmon river — source of the all-tackle world record, 97-pound chinook.
Lake Michigan
Salmon-stocked inland sea — downrigger trolling for kings and coho, May–September.
Columbia River
Spring, summer, and fall chinook plus coho and sockeye — all timed by river mile.
Salmon River (Pulaski)
Lake Ontario tributary — legendary fall chinook and winter steelhead.
Skeena River
All five Pacific salmon species plus trophy steelhead — a bucket-list watershed.
Community-recommended. Always check local regulations, seasons, and access rules before fishing.