It’s salmon recipe time again, and this one is a dandy! Over the years working at Alaska West, Chris Price has experimented with a few salmon sashimi brines. His first sashimi brine was kind of an oriental style, using orange juice and teriyaki. It was delicious, but the orange flavor and the sweetness of the teriyaki…
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Archives for September 2011
Different Doubles
All throughout our season at Alaska West, the variety in our fishery is amazing. We target eight species of fish and catch a couple others incidentally, and we use a whole bunch of different techniques in the process. August is no exception. Besides the great trout fishing, the numbers-oriented silver salmon fishery is a very…
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Bonefishing Tips – Oldies But Goodies
We’ve got over 1,000 posts on our blog, and though we try to keep things organized and easy to find…we realize that some of our articles get overlooked. We’ve been putting out bonefishing tips since 2008, so if you’re a newcomer to our site there’s probably some good ‘old’ bonefishing content that you’ve been missing….
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Another Great Year on the Dean
Right about this time last year, we ran an article called The Dean is Back. After several years at BC West that were solid by normal standards but slow by Dean standards, 2010 marked a return to ‘typical’ fishing for the Dean – that is, large numbers of insane steelhead and king salmon. Today we’re…
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Bonefish T-Shirt Winner
My goodness, you folks made it really hard to pick a winner! We had 82 entries in our free bonefish t-shirt contest (you left a comment telling us why you want to fish Andros Island this winter; we picked the best comment), and the quality this time around was incredible. There were a good 15…
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Revo Water Lens Review
Introduction A few months back we got our hands on a pair of glasses from Revo that incorporate their new Water Lens – a polarized lens made specifically for open water. The model we’ve been fishing with is called the Guide. We’ve fished enough days with them that we feel competent to write a review,…
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Louis Cahill’s Camera Rig
We’ve posted a lot of expert rigs on our blog – detailed descriptions of how some of the best anglers in the world set themselves up to chase fish in different parts of the world. In fact, two of the most popular pages on our site are our steelhead rig roundup and our king rig…
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We Remember.
Three Good Articles
…and we’re back today with three online articles about fly fishing that we think you might like! The Comeback Fly. Josh Mills tells how coming back with a sparse steelhead fly can work. Tips for Better Tarpon Hookups. The boys at Gink and Gasoline help you bury it. Georgia Man Catches Trout on Car Key….
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Flora of Western Alaska
We’re showing our sensitive side today – pretty stuff you see on the river bank at Alaska West. More on Western Alaska Our Home River It’s a Really Pretty Place Animals, Too!