With our season at Alaska West right around the corner, we figured it was an excellent time to review our most popular posts with Alaska fishing tips on our blog. 7 seemed like a good number, and these have gotten the most visits in the lifetime of our humble little home on the web! Bead…
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Trout, Man, Woman, Boat.
Guide Whitney presents angler Kevin’s good looking rainbow trout. Their trusty steed provides the backdrop. More Pictures from Alaska West Big Chrome Slab Little Water, Big Bend Just Another Chrome Silver
Boondoggin’ for Rainbows – 4 Tips
Bryan Burke works in our Anchorage office now, but he earned his stripes guiding guests at Alaska West on the Kanektok. In a recent conversation about favorite fishing techniques, Bryan declared boondogging (huh? read on…) to be at the top of his list. We asked him for some tips, and he obliged. Four Tips to…
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Early Season Kings
Jeff Hickman is a mainstay at Deneki Outdoors, with a bunch of years under his belt working at Alaska West and Andros South. His main gig now is guiding folks around Oregon, but he also hosts a group of anglers during the first week of our season at Alaska West. Today’s he’s here to tell…
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Trevor Covich’s Silver Rig
Trevor Covich is one of our go-to guys at Deneki Outdoors, owning key jobs for us in Alaska, the Bahamas and Chile. We asked Trevor to put together his favorite rig for chasing silvers at Alaska West, and he delivered that and a heck of a lot more. If you want to suck up the…
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5 Ways to Catch More Rainbow Trout
Catching rainbow trout at Alaska West is not all that difficult – in fact it’s easy to catch ‘some’. That being said, great anglers catch more, and great anglers catch the bigger ones. Here are 5 ways you can make yourself into a ‘greater’ trout angler in our part of the world. Mend less. Our…
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Leopard Rainbow Trout
They’re beautiful, and they’re unique, and they love eating flies. They’re leopard rainbow trout from Western Alaska, and we’ll be catching them in a month and a half! More on Rainbow Trout Bead Fishing Flesh Flies and Snags Mr. Hankey Produces
Alaska T-Shirt Giveaway
Here at Deneki Outdoors we’re pretty excited about the recent arrival of some super-cool original new T-shirts! One has an awesome bonefish design for the flats-inclined, and the other pays homage to the fabled Alaska Grand Slam (that would be all 5 Pacific Salmon, all in a day, all on a fly – like we…
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5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
We’re already getting excited about the king salmon we’re going to be catching at Alaska West and BC West starting the second week of June. These are not your normal king fisheries – we’re swinging flies for hot chrome fish just a few miles for the salt, and that really turns our crank! Anyhow, we’ve…
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Taking Kids Fishing
We’ve told you in the past that we love taking kids fishing, and for you family folks out there, we think it’s a pretty darned important thing to do. Today’s just a friendly reminder of one of the many things that kids bring to the table on the water – enthusiasm! More on Fishing with…
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