Last week at this time we showed you a little video slideshow from Andros South. Today – same story, from Alaska West! We strongly encourage you to spend 1 minute and 29 seconds of your life checking out our Alaska West video. Thank you. NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader,…
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Nice Vertical.
True to form, another silver salmon launches itself skyward. More on Silver Salmon 5 Reasons to Chase Silver Salmon 6 Ways to Catch More Trevor Covich’s Silver Rig
Don’t Cast Too Far.
Jeff Hickman is back on our blog today with a very simple but incredibly important spey fishing tip. Don’t Cast Too Far. For some reason, people equate spey rods to long casts. Sure you can cast a spey rod far but that is not the main advantage of using one. Much of the time if…
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Wildest Fish Ever
There are a lot of cool looking fish on the planet, but we really think that a ‘clowned up’ dolly varden from Western Alaska has got to be one of the coolest, wildest looking fish ever. We catch these psychedelic critters in August at Alaska West. More Cool Fish Shark! Mouse Fly Rainbow Trout Dry…
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When to Go Fishing in Alaska
Judging by the number of people we’re hearing from right now who are planning their fishing trips to Alaska for next summer, a lot of you are planning your fishing trips to Alaska for next summer. Yep, it’s happening right now, and we’re proud of you for planning ahead! We’re always looking to provide you…
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Nice Fish, Fraser
Here’s Alaska West’s good friend Fraser with a beautiful king salmon of the purple-backed variety. Nice fish, Fraser. More on Alaska West King Salmon Ed Ward’s King Rig Just A Big Chrome Slab. 5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
It Actually Gets Dark, Almost
We get an awful lot of sunlight during our season at Alaska West, but as fall (that would be September) approaches, it starts to get borderline dark outside! More Scenery from Alaska West It’s Really Pretty on the Kanektok Night Sky A Different Kind of Scenery
Whitney Gould’s King Rig
We’ve got another post in our Expert Rig series today – in which we profile, in detail, how various expert anglers set up their gear to chase a particular species in a particular place. We’re really proud to have Whitney Gould on our guide team at Alaska West. If you don’t ask her about it…
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Nice Fish, Brian
Brian Pitser joined us at Alaska West earlier this year for a week of starry flounder fishing. After a winter of tying starry flounder flies and practicing starry flounder retrieves, he was thrilled to land this beauty. Nice fish, Brian. OK, OK – just joking. We don’t actually target starry flounder at Alaska West. We…
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10 Things That Happened at Alaska West This Year
“We had another great year at Alaska West.” Our home rivers at Alaska West are such incredible fisheries that we sometimes lose perspective. Our fishing is just so darned productive and so darned consistent – it’s not like this everywhere, even in Alaska! In the face of challenging returns elsewhere in the state and in…
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