Deneki alum and Olympic Peninsula Skagit Tactics general Manager, Ben Paull, recently joined us for a week of reminiscence at Alaska West. Ben spent three seasons guiding on the Kanektok, and like many of us, has been haunted by the massive, walter-sized, leopard rainbows that never quite made it to hand. That is until now.. During…
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Archives for August 2015
Finishing Intruders – 9 Styles
Deneki pal and professional fly designer, Stuart Foxall, is back today with another great post for all of you who like tying flies for anadramous fish.. Not one, not two, but nine different ways to finish off your intruders! Enjoy! Finishing Intruders – 9 Styles Intruder style flies are a really fun fly to tie, mainly because…
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Whitney Gould’s Silver Rig
Our annual run of silver salmon have arrived here at Alaska West, and it won’t be long before they’re stacked up in shockingly high numbers. So, in anticipation of silver madness, we’re coming at you with another edition of our expert rig series, where we give you all the details on how the experts rig up. Today’s expert…
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Bonefish – Up Close
For some reason we really like close up shots of bonefish.. Maybe it’s because we spend so much of our time trying to see bonefish at far distances. Lucky for us, we can count on our buddy Peter Viau to provide us with some pretty cool perspectives on bonefish. Thanks Peter! More on Bonefishing 9 Questions on…
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Opportunism
This year at Alaska West, our run of chum salmon came in a bit later than normal (don’t worry, they’re here in full force now). However, our resident rainbow trout count on the conveyor belt of salmon flesh each season to fatten up for the winter, which on our river consists of mostly chum and…
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TB Peggz – Why We Like Them
Last week we ran a post on three methods of rigging beads, where we highlighted three of the most common ways beads are rigged when fishing for trout. However, we recently picked up a pack of TB Peggz from Trout Beads and found that they work really well! They’re basically a rubber peg designed to…
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