We’re always excited when a guest of ours puts together a post for our humble little fishing blog. After all, as far as we’re concerned there’s no better account than that from those that fish with us! Ed Novinsky recently fished with us at Alaska West, and although its difficult to call him a guest…
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Archives for August 2016
Three Good Articles
Today we’re back again with our mid-monthly edition of Three Good Articles – fly fishing articles from other websites over the past month that we enjoyed and have a feeling you will too! Three Good Articles Mega Hatch Success. Mark Raisler drops some knowledge on how to capitalize when the bugs really start flying on the Simms…
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Weekly Fish Story – The Unintentional Grand Slam
We’re back with another edition of our ‘Weekly Fish Stories‘ series of posts where our guides and guests share their first hand experience of a notable moment on the water – A quick snapshot of awesomeness if you will.. Today’s weekly fish story comes from Alaska West guide, Jim Palmersheim, on a special day spent…
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Alaska West Video by Magnus Jepson
Earlier this summer we had the good fortunate of fishing with our good friend and Alaska West guest, Magnus Jepson. Magnus has been joining us for a number of years now, and some of you might recall that that he’s put together some pretty cool video from his stays with us over the last few…
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Steelheading: 5 Reasons to Fish a Dry
Catching fish on the surface is certainly not an everyday occurrence for most steelhead anglers. However, during certain parts of our season at BC West we’re pretty fortunate to have a very real opportunity to target them on top, and today Kara Knight gives us a few reasons why you should give the dry a chance….
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Happy Hump Day
It’s hump day today! And, it’s a humpy year here at our lodges. So, naturally we felt it necessary to present you with a cool photo of a humped out pink salmon caught by Alaska West guest, Worth McAlister. Pinks return to our rivers in force every even-numbered year. We get a few here and…
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Whitney Gould’s Silver Swinging Rig
When it comes to fly fishing for silvers, it’s hard to argue against the effectiveness of stripping ridiculously colored streamers with a single handed 8-9 weight fly rod. However, one of our favorite things about silver season is that we’re fortunate to be able to target fish using a whole bunch of different methods, thus…
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Weekly Fish Story – “Competitive Predators”
As you might expect, we hear a lot of great fish stories over the course of a week. In fact we’d go out on a limb to say there’s not a day that goes by during our season when we’re not swapping stories of a great fight, a killer eat, or just an all around…
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The Franc N Snaelda – Tying Instructions
Over the course of a year, we’re fortunate to fish with a lot of great anglers, many of whom hail from all over the world. Therefore, we get to witness a whole multitude of tips and techniques used for other species, that we might not have seen otherwise, and thus incorporate them into our own fishing! Fly…
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Airflo Skagit F.I.S.T. Line Review
One thing we really dig about swinging flies for species like king and chum salmon in our neck of the woods is we tend to learn pretty quickly what gear works and what gear just doesn’t quite cut it. Plenty of willing fish stacked up in ideal ‘swing’ water allows us to cut out enough variables to…
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