An American Creek float trip is one of the pinnacles of Alaska fly fishing and rafting experiences. The river offers three entirely different ecological zones, providing a great variety of fishing situations, fish habitat and surrounding scenery. An Alaska float trip is the only way to access much of American Creek, affording plentiful opportunities to wade and bank fish as we travel 45 miles by raft west and then south through the Walatka Mountains, accessing otherwise unreachable waters. The upper portion of American Creek is a classic mountain fly fishing stream, habitat which hosts unusually abundant insect hatches and features the finest Alaska rainbow trout dry fly fishing in the state. The character of American Creek quickly changes as our Alaska float trip travels westerly into the mid river canyon section of rushing tail out pools and riffles that hold broad shouldered Alaska rainbow trout and arctic char.

American Creek turns south in the canyon section and then spills into the lowlands north of Coville Lake, terminus of the river. The resulting braided lower section of American Creek offers pot hole fishing and sight casting to the rainbows and char. The ‘bows are very large in this river, up to 30 inches, with most fish ranging 18-25 inches. The char can be almost as large, and many tens of thousands of sockeye salmon will navigate, spawn, die and nourish the river system. This is one of the only rivers in Alaska where the sockeye salmon will aggressively pursue a streamer. Our American Creek float trips kick off in the community of King Salmon with a bush plane flight northeasterly to Hammersly Lake (headwaters of American Creek) which is located in the Walatka Mountains.

An American Creek Alaska fly fishing and rafting trip, is comparatively strenuous, and is for the adventurous and sturdy group. Log jams and shifting channels in the braided portion of the river may lead to lining or portaging the rafts. An Alaska fly fishing adventure on American Creek will afford your group incomparable Alaska bear viewing opportunities, as well as the likelihood of seeing caribou, wolf, moose and other species. American Creek is one of the ultimate Alaska river float trips.