Photo: Cameron Miller Brian Niska owns and operates Whistler Fly Fishing, a fly fishing school, guide service and specialty fly shop in Whistler, BC. Brian is a certified Master Casting Instructor and Two Handed Casting Instructor with the FFF, and we’re lucky to have him as a guest spey instructor at Alaska West. Brian will…
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Alaska West
Alaska West Video
We have a short video posted on YouTube that gives an introduction into what Alaska West is all about. Have a look!
Michael White’s King Rig
Way back when, Michael White was a guide at Alaska West. These days, he’s the owner of Blue Ribbon Sales, representing Simms, Loomis, Ross and other great lines to shops in the Southern Rockies. “Whitey” is one fishy dude, and he loves sharing his enthusiasm with anyone within shouting distance on the river. Whitey is a…
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Charles St. Pierre’s King Rig
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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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.