Where to watch spawning salmon around Ketchikan this month

All four Ketchikan-area salmon viewing sites the Alaska Department of Fish and Game lists are in season now.

• Herring Cove (king and silver, off Borch Street),

• Ketchikan Creek (kings, steelhead, pink and chum, at Water and Bayview streets) and

• Ward Creek (steelhead plus pink, chum, sockeye and silver, off Revilla Road) are listed July through October.

• Settlers Cove and Lunch Creek, pink salmon only, is listed August through September.

Those ranges cover every species a creek gets, not pinks specifically. Where the department does break pinks out, they finish earlier: its Ward Lake guide says pink and chum spawn there from late July through mid-September, and Herring Cove's listing includes no pinks at all.

For pinks, the Settlers Cove page recommends standing on the bridge over Lunch Creek near the parking area "for the best views of the pink salmon run." Ward Creek Trail has viewing platforms. The Ketchikan sport fishing report says "Coho will continue moving into freshwater through August and into September."