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Alaska West
Don’t Forget About Me
Folks who are headed up to Alaska West in 12 days for the start of our season get pretty fired up about the early season king fishing – it’s all the rage. Don’t forget though – rainbow trout live in the Kanektok and the Arolik too, they’re available all season long, and they’re pretty awesome…
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Larimer’s Reverse Marabou Tube Fly
One of Tom Larimer’s go-to flies these days for winter steelhead, summer steelhead and king salmon in Alaska is one of his own designs – the Reverse Marbou Tube. NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here to hear Tom talk about his steelhead and salmon fly on YouTube. The…
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Not Long Now
We’ve got boots on the ground in Alaska and BC! Over the past few days our setup crews have arrived at Alaska West and BC West, getting things ready for our summer seasons that start on June 11th in Alaska and June 19th in BC. The first couple of weeks of work for the crews…
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Salmon Recipe from Jim Palmersheim
Today we continue our series of recipes from our team at Alaska West – a bunch of folks who get the chance to partake in beautiful fresh wild salmon quite a lot in the course of a summer… Jim Palmersheim quickly became a fan favorite on our guide staff a few years back. Not only…
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Future Spey Anglers
Looking for the next generation of fly anglers? Here you go – they’re in Quinhagak, Alaska. And you know what? They probably know more about salmon than you do! More on Culture at Alaska West Job Requirements: Facial Hair Native Crafts The Arolik Bus
Alaska Felt Sole Ban
Last month in Juneau the State of Alaska Board of Fisheries decided in a unanimous 6-0 vote to ban anglers from wearing felt soled boots in all Alaskan streams and rivers starting in 2012. Why Ban Felt Soles? Trout Unlimited and other conservation-oriented organizations have for some time now espoused that anglers do in fact…
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The Intruder
Warning: this is a very technical post about fly tying. If you’re not interested in the subtleties of tying one of the most influential modern steelhead and salmon patterns, click here to look at a bunch of pictures of fish. Jerry French may not have a household name in the world of anadromous angling in…
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How To Fish a Mouse Fly
In a little more than a month, our setup crew will be headed in to start prep work for our season at Alaska West. That makes us pretty twitchy about our summer fishing! One of our favorite ways to fish for rainbows on the Kanektok is using a mouse pattern. Mousing is really visual, it…
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Switch Rods – Different Uses
We’ve told you before that we think you should try out a switch rod if you haven’t already. We’ve also told you that we tend to think of switch rods as basically being little spey rods. They definitely can be fished like little spey rods and that’s maybe the use that’s most applicable in our…
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