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The bay-wide run is now just over 35 million fish. Yesterday’s catch brought in just over 1 million salmon, with Egegik fleets bringing in the biggest haul of the day. The Ugashik district has now exceeded its pre-season forecast, with a total run so far of 5.7 million fish.

Smaller numbers today as the tail of the run makes its way to the bay. However, both Egegik and Naknek-Kvichak surpassed 10 million in their total run. The strongest escapement yesterday swam through the Kvichak river, as the majority of fish continue to flood that district.

The bay-wide run has surpassed the 40 million mark, well on its way to that 44 million pre-season forecast. Egegik and Ugashik have now both exceeded their projected total run, and the Naknek River has now passed the lower benchmark of its escapement google range. Port Moller has reported their final catch update for the 2026 fishing season.

Once again, crews in the Nushagak caught nearly a million sockeye just the other day, bringing the baywide catch to almost 10 million. Escapement in the Naknek River is looking slim, while the Kvichak keeps climbing. And Port Moller has recorded yet another strong Daily Catch Index after a couple days of low counts.

The bay-wide run is now just under 20 million fish, with steady catches yesterday from all districts bringing in a total just under 1.5 million fish. The Nuhagak river has exceeded the upper end of its escapement goal range, with 2.7 million fish counted upstream so far this season, and the Kvichak river recorded the highest escapement of the day. A big drop off in the catch index at Port Moller, but their crew says not to worry, there are plenty of sockeye between the transect and the districts.

The Bristol Bay sockeye salmon run is underway, with a strong inshore run forecasted at 44.1 million fish. This is 26% smaller than the most recent 10-year average, but 21% greater than the long term average of 37.4 million fish. The bay-wide catch is at 151,668 fish so far, with most of that fish coming in from Ugashik.

The bay-wide catch was just 3,000 yesterday, bringing the total run close to half a million fish so far. Naknek tower crews started counting over the weekend, and big catch indices at Port Moller indicate that the fish are on their way.

Yesterday was the largest daily catch of the season so far, with over 100,000 fish hauled in—the majority caught in the Ugashik district. But, looking at the latest Port Moller stock composition, over a third of the sampled fish are on their way to the Nushagak, so things should be changing very soon.

The total baywide run has surpassed one million fish, with a big haul in the Ugashik district on Tuesday. The Wood River escapement doubled yesterday and, according to Fish and Game, may be on track to double again today.