Fish Creek opens to dipnetting

Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s division of Sport Fish has opened the Fish Creek Personal Use Dip Net fishery starting this Saturday.  The creek is located along Knik Goose Bay Road along the Knik Arm.

The escapement goal for Fish Creek is between twenty to seventy-thousand sockeye salmon.  As of July 20^th, close to thirty-thousand sockeye had passed through the weir located upstream of the fishery.   Based on the weir counts, Fish and Game predicts an escapement of more than seventy thousand sockeye.  Due to the high counts, they are allowing dipnetting in the area.

All salmon species caught, with the exception of king salmon, may be retained.  Any king salmon caught must be released immediately.

Dipnetters must have a resident sport fishing license as well as a Cook Inlet personal use permit.  The area open to dipnetting is from the ADF&G markers located on both sides of the terminus of Fish Creek to the markers one quarter mile upstream from the Knik-Goose Bay Road.  Harvest rules follow the same rules as the Kenai dipnetting area.