You spotted your bonefish, made a beautiful cast despite the wind, retrieved your fly at just the right pace to get the follow, and the fish took the fly. You even fought the urge to trout set, and instead strip set the fly making a solid connection. Fish on! Although you did everything right, your…
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Red Stripe
Just another beautiful, blood-red-striped rainbow trout from Alaska West! More on Trout at Alaska West All About Rainbow Trout 5 Favorite Flies for Alaskan Rainbow Trout Jordan Sly’s Trout Swinging Rig
The Family Just Got Bigger
We have some news to announce today! Deneki Outdoors has been acquired by the fine folks at Rapids Camp Lodge. What Does It Mean? We’re a bigger, stronger, happier family now. Alaska West, Andros South and BC West will continue to operate just as they have all along. We’ve got a top-tier Alaskan fly-out lodge…
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Bring the Kids Along
If you have followed our blog much, you know we love having families with kids join us at Alaska West. The Kanektok River is a great place to get kids excited about fishing due to the fact that it’s so darn productive. Although typical of a younger beginning angler, “I’m bored” or “I wish there…
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Three Random Fishing Tips
Today’s post is…just what it says. Three Random Fishing Tips Try swinging your bead for dollies. Eggs don’t swing in real life, but for some reason dolly varden can be attracted to egg patterns tearing across the current. The next time you’re on a dolly flat, try a combination of dead drift and swung presentations…
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Signs of South Andros
Today we present you with some words you’ll get hit with on your trip to Andros South, in the order in which you’ll encounter them. More Pictures from South Andros South Andros from Above Best Part of the Day The Mangrove Shuffle
Bonefish and Tarpon Trust at Andros South
Last week, we kicked off our season at Andros South with a group of researchers working with Bonefish and Tarpon Trust. For those of you unfamiliar with Bonefish Tarpon Trust (BTT), they’re a group based out of the Florida Keys committed to conserving and enhancing bonefish, tarpon, and permit fisheries all over the world. Each day, members of…
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Nice Chinook, Dake!
…and here’s why anglers love fishing during the early part of the season at BC West. Dake Traphagen displays a beautiful Dean River chinook salmon. Beautiful fish, Dake. More on Dean River Chinooks Top 5 Beast Encounters It Doesn’t Take Many You’re Probably Not Up For It
12 Reasons to Fish at Andros South
We try to provide you with lots of interesting content about fly fishing here on the Deneki blog. That being said, we run fishing lodges for a living so every once in a while we hit you with a blatant sales pitch. Today is one of those days. Thanks for reading our blog! In no…
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Alaska West Sea Lice
We have lots of pictures of sea lice from Alaska West, because with our location 6 miles from the salt, our salmon have lots of sea lice. More on Salmon at Alaska West Whitney Gould’s King Rig 5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon Silver Salmon Lifecycles