Went fishing Thursday after work for a little bit. This is on the Wood River. It was cloudy but there were a ton of fish going by. Snagged one (hook not through the mouth) so I let it go (illegal to keep snagged fish in fresh water, but ok to keep in salt water). Otherwise there were no fish interested in anything I threw at them. 5 kids showed up about 30 minutes after I started and they had no luck while I was there. Figured I would take a couple pictures looking downriver from where I was fishing (just up river is a large bridge, sometime I will take a picture of the whole area). This has been the only place where I could find access to any river around here. Can't fish the beach due to the locals all having their fishing nets out (subsistence fishing is common in the villages up here and you don't mess with that).
Went fishing again today and the sun kept peaking out. Tried to take a picture of the fish going by. Hard to see, but there are a lot of them. Steady stream like this for the 2.5 hours I was there. Still no bites. There was another lady that was fishing and she snagged 2 (let them go, which I was happy about). She didn't get any real bites either.
The fish going upstream right now are Reds (aka Sokeye). They are notorious for not biting at anything. These are ones people tend to dip net for (where legal like the Kenai river) and then smoke them. I'm hoping the Silvers (aka Coho) start running soon as they are more likely to bite and their fight is really fun. From what I have heard their run is usually in August here, but sometimes start late July. I used to fish for them a lot in Kodiak where the run was usually September time frame (start around August but run through September).