The Tsiu River is regarded as one of Alaska's finest Silver Salmon fisheries. The river is relatively short in length, thus creating an entire fishery that holds fresh and super hot fighting fish. This is a 100% all wading fishery and, therefore, an anglers tackle must be up to the task of battling these acrobatic brutes. Here is the tackle and flies recommended for this awesome destination:
- Rods: 7 - 9 weight single-handed rods
- Reels: Disk drag reels with a minimum of 150 yards of 20 pound backing
- Fly Lines:
- Floating: RIO Outbound Short (WF-F)
- Intermediate Tip: RIO Outbound Short (WF-F/I - 15 foot clear tip)
- Sinktip: RIO 24 Foot Sinking Tip (200 - 300 grain) - or - SA Master Textured Streamer Express (200 - 300 grain)
- Leaders:
- Topwater: Knotless tapered leaders (9 foot / 12 - 15 pound test)
- Subsurface: Level mono or flourocarbon (12 - 15 pound test)
- Flies:
- Flash Flies (silver/red - size 2)
- Egg Sucking Leeches (purple, black - size 4)
- Flashtail Clouser Minnow (chartreuse/white in size 2/0)
- Alaskabou (showgirl [pink/purple] - size 1/0)
- Polly Wog
- Hair Leech (bubblegum pink, fushia - size 1/0)
- Starlite Leech (purple/redhead, black/redhead - size 2)
- Todd's Wiggle Wog (pink - size 2/0)
- Pink Gurglers
