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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Alaska West
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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Nice Dolly, Rick
The Dolly Varden at Alaska West were fat this year! Rick Sisler shows off one of many. Nice fish, Rick. More on This Year at Alaska West Silver Mayhem Fishing Report The Kings Were Big Too Tom Larimer’s Trip Report
Chris Price’s Sashimi Salmon Recipe
It’s salmon recipe time again, and this one is a dandy! Over the years working at Alaska West, Chris Price has experimented with a few salmon sashimi brines. His first sashimi brine was kind of an oriental style, using orange juice and teriyaki. It was delicious, but the orange flavor and the sweetness of the teriyaki…
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Different Doubles
All throughout our season at Alaska West, the variety in our fishery is amazing. We target eight species of fish and catch a couple others incidentally, and we use a whole bunch of different techniques in the process. August is no exception. Besides the great trout fishing, the numbers-oriented silver salmon fishery is a very…
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Flora of Western Alaska
We’re showing our sensitive side today – pretty stuff you see on the river bank at Alaska West. More on Western Alaska Our Home River It’s a Really Pretty Place Animals, Too!