During the second week of our king season at Alaska West, our spey instruction program is taught by Charles St. Pierre, the owner and operator of Northwest Spey Casting. Charles is a Kanektok veteran and an incredibly well-rounded caster– long belly, short belly, sustained anchor, touch-and-go, underhand, Skagit, AFS…the list goes on and on. He’s…
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Alaska West
Fishing with Dec
Photo: Cameron Miller We offer instructional weeks at all three of our lodges, with the focus at Alaska West being on spey casting. A different guest spey instructor joins us for each peak week of our king salmon season, and provides a combination of on-river one-one-one instruction during the fishing day and group instruction after…
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Deneki Outdoors. Our Thanksgiving gift to you is a picture of a giant rainbow trout, caught a couple of years back at Alaska West by our guest and friend Tom Rueping, with Ramsey ‘Rainbow Magnet’ Smith as his guide. Lower Kanektok. Flesh. To learn more, come on up…
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Simms Video Shot at Alaska West
In 2007 Simms sent a crew to Alaska West to document their products and the people who use them and abuse them. They produced photos for their catalog as well as an incredible video. Have a look.