Ninilchik beach (river mouth)
Ninilchik
A mellow lower-Inlet option for surf halibut and for salmon staging before they run the Ninilchik River.
- Access
- Beach access at Ninilchik village and the state rec area at the river mouth.
- Water
- Saltwater
- Best time
- Jun-Sep
- Fish
- Coho (silver), Pink (humpy), Halibut, Chinook (king), Dolly Varden
- How to fish it
- Bank, Spin, Bait
- Crowds
- Low
- Regulations
- Lower Cook Inlet
- Local rules
- Coho and pink staging off the river mouth late Jul to early Sep, kings in the nearshore in June (when open), surf halibut. Tide dependent.
Part of Homer Area.