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Justin and Lisa Johns invite you to join them at Alaska's premiere flyfishing destination
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Fishing Bear is located at the mouth of Alaska's Peace River in the center of the Wood River - Tikchik River Park, North America's largest Wilderness State Park.
The 1.6 million acre Tikchik/Wood Park was created in 1978 to enhance and protect the area's naturally rich prolific fish and wildlife breeding and support systems and the regions vast and pristine wilderness character.
Named for its watershed systems of large interconnected clearwater lakes and rivers, the area spans a unique variety of terrain and vegetative zones and is renowned for its diverse beauty.Spired peaks, high alpine valleys, waterfalls, hanging glaciers and great glacial scoured mountains make the scenery at our location and the western reaches of the lakes some of the most magnificent on earth.
The lakes vary in length from 15 to 45 miles, each fed by numerous streams and interconnected by clear flowing world-class fishing rivers.
The rich wilderness ecosystem supports many of Alaska's large animal species including brown bear (grizzly), moose, caribou, black bear, wolverine, lynx and wolf. The smaller wildlife species include beaver, otter, muskrat, fox, mink, weasel, porcupine, marmots and parka squirrels.
Birds nesting in the area include a great variety of waterfowl including swans, numerous bald eagles, golden eagles, gulls, arctic terns, common and arctic loons, spotted and least sandpipers, semi-palmated plover, willow ptarmigan and spruce grouse.
Freshwater fish are prolific throughout the area. Rainbow trout, arctic char, dolly varden, grayling, whitefish and northern pike abound in the lakes and interconnected rivers. An average of 1.3 million Sockeye Salmon spawn the system annually.
The weather is generally cool and moist, with daily July high/low temperatures averaging 65/45 degrees Fahrenheit. Precipitation is most prevalent in the sumer, occurring about 27% of the time in August along the coast. Total precipitation averages 25 inches annually at Dillingham, with fairly large local variations experienced within the area.
Annual snowfall averages 60 to 70 inches at Dillingham and may reach more than 160 inches at Lake Nerka. Winds are usually moderate (0-30 mph), prevailing from the southeast/southwest in summer and from the north and east in winter.
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