Eeny, meeny, miny…actually a lot of thought goes into it. Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West and Andros South (our two operations with more than a few guides), we do daily guide pairings. Rather than matching guests up with a guide for the entire week, we talk to you at the end of each angling…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: August 28 – Sept 4
The final week of the 2009 Alaska West season has come and gone but we won’t soon forget the guests and the fishing that we experienced this week. Photos: Cameron Miller Guys like Mike Erickson, Craig Kruck, Brian Crowley, Mark Worthington and Larry Klein joined us again for some more great fishing on the Kanektok….
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Alaska West Fishing Report: August 21 – 28
Well, once again this week showed us why fishing silvers and rainbows on the Kanektok in late August is one of the best fishing trips on the planet. Photo: Cameron Miller Quite a few new guests joined us this week from all over the states. Surprisingly the only return guests this week were Rich “Smokey”…
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Rainbow Trout Rigs – Steak and Eggs
Did this fish like steak or eggs? The world will never know. Photo: Cameron Miller One of our favorite ways to target the Kanektok River’s rainbows in the late season at Alaska West is to fish a type of rig that we call ‘Steak and Eggs’ – a bead with a small flesh fly for…
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Just A Cool Underwater Picture
Chums swim around. Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West we’re really lucky to have Cameron Miller as a full-time staff photographer. Guests at Alaska West get to see some pretty neat slideshows during the course of their week fishing with us, and when they head downriver at the end of their trip, they get a…
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TV Shows At Alaska West
Bruce Chard isn’t our only celebrity angler this year. Photo: Cameron Miller We’re going to be famous! We’ve got a crew from InterMedia Outdoors/Barrett Productions at Alaska West this week, shooting two TV shows that will show on the Sportsman Channel in the second quarter of 2010. Breaking the Surface showcases the angling exploits of…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: August 14 – 21
This week we welcomed back quite a few long-time guests of Alaska West. Photo: Cameron Miller Guys like Mac and Greg Miller, John Amiro, John Carbone, Pete and Craig Durno and Family, Ken Plank, Jeb Curelop, Bud Fogel, Jim Coleman and Bob Carr have been with us many times and hopefully many more to come….
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Tom Larimer’s King Rig
Tom loads up yet another laser loop. Photo: Cameron Miller Tom Larimer runs one of the premier guide services in the Northwest. He’s a super dude, an incredible angler and teacher, and…you guessed it, he’s one of our spey hosts during our king season at Alaska West. If you saw Tom headed out on the…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: August 7 – 14
Week 9 of the Alaska West season welcomed back some long time guests in the Bruce Cook Sr. group. Photo: Cameron Miller Bruce Cook Jr, Ray Smith and Bob Anderson all joined us again with Sr. They also brought a couple of the younger generation with them in Chandler and Tyler Cook just to keep…
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Spey Instruction At Alaska West
Class is in session. Photo: Cameron Miller From June 12th to July 17th of this year, we ran another season of really successful spey instruction programs at Alaska West. Since swinging flies on two-handed rods tends to be the favorite method for targeting our chrome kings, we invite the best of the best in the…
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