Hi there. I’m a leopard rainbow trout. I live in the Kanektok River in Southwest Alaska. Let me tell you a little about myself. I’m not as big as lots of my brothers and sisters, but I’ve definitely got the family’s typical pink cheeks and mega-spots. I like hanging out on shelves and dropoffs, around…
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Alaska West
Louis Strikes Again
You’ve seen a bunch of Louis Cahill‘s pictures on our blog. He’s been to Andros South a couple of times and has loaded us up with a whole bunch of awesome shots. Louis visited Alaska West this past August and we’re the lucky recipients of a giant batch of new pictures from Alaska. Today, just…
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Fishing in Alaska is Fun.
This picture was taken in front of the lounge tent at Alaska West, on the tail end of one of our late August weeks in 2010. See how the guys in this picture seem to be having fun? That’s because they are. More on Alaska West Our Fishery One of the Coolest Hero Shots Ever…
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Flesh Flies and Snags
Yet another reason why you should fish your flesh fly around snags when you’re targeting rainbow trout in Western Alaska – illustrated in one simple photo. See the snag? See the dead salmon on the snag? See why rainbow trout near that snag might be looking for salmon flesh? Thought so. More on Rainbow Trout…
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Playing in the Water
At Deneki Outdoors we’ve all pretty much built our lives around playing in the water. Sometimes it seems pretty complicated. Other times, not so much! More Culture The Arolik Bus Future Spey Anglers Tunes at the Slack Tide
Team Carhartt
Our team at Alaska West wears a lot of high-tech outerwear. You can’t throw a rock around our camp without hitting some Gore-Tex or a chunk of new-school soft shell. But the folks on our camp staff – the crew that works really, really hard to give our guests a great home for the week…
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This Guy Loves Trout
Valentine’s Day is still a few months away, but this shot from the last week of our season at Alaska West just couldn’t wait that long. When Kevin says he loves trout fishing, he means it. More on Rainbow Trout When to Go Trout Fishing in Alaska Mr. Hankey 5 Reasons We Love Arolik Rainbows
Man and Silver
Send a bunch of cameras out every day with a bunch of guides on a river that’s loaded with fish, and you’re bound to get some pictures that are beautiful, some pictures that are heroic, some pictures that are artistic, and some pictures that are just, well, kind of strange. Garrett Sullivan and his friend…
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Spey Casting – Snap T / Circle Spey Basics
It’s spey casting video time. Whitney Gould makes an appearance today to walk us through the basic steps involved in making one of the most useful spey casts out there – the Snap T a.k.a. Circle Spey a.k.a. C-Spey a.k.a. Circle Cast. It’s a great cast that just happens to have a lot of names….
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Bear Highway
We actually don’t see that many bears at Alaska West. Seriously, our camp is located 6 miles from the mouth of a 90-mile river. The best fishing for the bears is further upriver on the spawning beds, where they’ve got easy access to an easy meal. But…there are some side channels and smaller pieces of…
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