Karluk River
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Infobox river The Karluk River is a stream, Template:Convert long, on Kodiak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="Place Names"/> It begins at Karluk Lake in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and flows north and then northwest through Karluk Lagoon to the Shelikof Strait at Karluk.<ref name="DeLorme">Template:Cite book</ref>
Sportfishing is popular in this river basin, "the largest and most productive" on Kodiak Island.<ref name="Alaska Fishing">Template:Cite book</ref> It has significant runs of sockeye salmon, Coho, pink, Chinook, and chum salmon, and steelhead, and Dolly Varden trout are also prevalent.<ref name="Alaska Fishing"/> The entire main stem, rated Class I (easy) on the International Scale of River Difficulty, is floatable by raft or kayak.<ref name="Alaska Fishing"/>