This brown liked Chris’s tactics. Our environment at Chile West is changing day to day as we travel to new fisheries and different climates, so we change the methods we use to fish. We fish it all, from big, wide, deep rivers, to small shallow rivers or creeks, to lakes. We fish from boats or…
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South Andros Fisheries Part Three – The West Side
Gary and Torrie look for West Side giants. At Andros South we launch our boats from the mouth of Little Creek, and that’s no coincidence – Little Creek provides the best access through the center of South Andros to the fabled West Side, and we take advantage of that access whenever we can. The West…
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Alaska Native Crafts from Quinhagak
The real stuff. Photo: Cameron Miller Alaska West is located just up the Kanektok River from the Yupik Eskimo village of Quinhagak. We’re really lucky to have good friends in the village. It’s a unique community, and we’re all there for fundamentally the same reason – incredible, consistent returns of salmon to the Kanektok each…
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Lake Fishing in Chile
Our lakes produce too. Although our standard program at Chile West is built around fishing 7 different rivers, there are countless lakes along the Carretera Austral that provide some great options too. Rainbows, browns and brookies can all be caught in the lakes in our region. As is the case with our river fishing, variety…
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South Andros Fisheries Part Two – The South
This is The South. This image covers an area 18 miles wide. There’s a lot of water here. Part two in our series on the four major fisheries at Andros South covers the massive area of keys and flats off the southern tip of South Andros – the area simply known as ‘The South’. Head…
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Family Fishing in Alaska Part Six – What We Learned
Spending some quality time. Today we conclude our series from Bryan Whiting on his family’s trips to Alaska West. Bryan has made 3 fishing trips to Alaska with his family, and was gracious enough to write a 6-part series for us on the trips. Thanks so much, Brian! This last chapter is focused on what…
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South Andros Fisheries Part One – East Side Creeks
Andy Kurkulis ducks the wind in Deep Creek. The first of our four-part series on the fisheries at Andros South covers the tidal creeks on the east side of the island. We cover a huge area at Andros South, and you’ll see that we’ve got a wide variety of fisheries with different exposures at our…
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Family Fishing in Alaska Part Five – What We Learned
Jason Whiting, bombin’ the two-hander. Photo: Cameron Miller Today we hear from Bryan Whiting on what he and his family learned on their trips to Alaska West in 2004, 2006 and 2008. Today’s post is all about strategies for the trip – we’ll have a follow-up post on what they learned about the fishing. As…
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Horsepacking in Chile
Running shuttle, Chile style. Photo: Chris Price One of the options during a trip at Chile West is to do some horsepacking. Besides the fun of actually riding horses, horespacking allows us to get our guests into some incredibly remote, beautiful areas. Guides and guests load up on horses to access a pristene river valley….
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It’s Really Pretty on the Kanektok
The Kanektok River, where we operate Alaska West, is not the land of jagged peaks, glaciers and Sitka spruce. Our Alaska is vast, lush and a pretty beautiful place to spend a week. All photos by Cameron Miller