Alaska Department of Game and Fish talks about Kanektok Rainbow Trout in their October Newsletter, WeFishAk. You can read the full article here! Our personal favorite line from the article reads “One researcher on the Kanektok River found 16 mice in one rainbow’s belly!” And yes, they do include a photo of this! To experience the…
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Finishing Strong on the Kanektok
On one of the last days of the season at Alaska West, repeat guest Terry Haines and AK West guide Evan Vick landed 2 incredible leopard rainbows on the K-Tok. These are the fish our homeriver has become famous for, gorgeous yet powerful. The first one was 25 and 1/2 inches on the tape and…
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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report
The incredible ecosystem that is Bristol Bay Alaska had another record breaking year in terms of salmon numbers. According to KDLG, 56.3 million salmon returned to Bristol Bay in 2019. The commercial harvest was the second largest ever at 43 million fish. The total run for the Bay was 33% higher than they forecasted giving…
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3 Reasons We Like This Photo
Take a Kid Fishing! They are the future of this wonderful sport. We work hard to protect places like this from bad ideas (cough, cough Pebble Mine) in part to preserve them for future generations. I mean look at that smile, priceless! It is of a Chum Salmon. In our opinion the most underrated of all…
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Reminder: Tomorrow is a Day for Bristol Bay!
Just a reminder that tomorrow, August 24th, is AFFTA’s a Day for Bristol Bay! We have a big fight ahead of us and need to be united as an industry. Fly shops, manufacturers, guides, outfitters, lodges and more industry professionals nationwide have banded together for A Day for Bristol Bay to raise much-needed funding for…
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Timeless Tips // Follow Through on Your Hook Set!
Whether you’re following an indicator or dry fly with your rod tip, or swinging flies, you do not want to set the hook in an upwards direction, instead, set in the direction that the fly is moving. To aid in remembering this, I encourage clients to really follow their drift with the rod tip, that…
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Queens who Play Kings
There is a group of ladies that have become veterans of the Kanektok River over the last few years. These fishy females come to Alaska West early season and show us all how to catch the mighty King Salmon on the swing. Check out this line up, Andrea Warner (has been fishing with us since…
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Timeless Tips, Avoid Wading too Deep!
Stuart Foxall is back again with more advice to help you up your King Salmon game. This week, instead of giving you pointers on things to do, he is going over a crucial thing to avoid doing! Please share Stuart! “Every year at Alaska West I see the same common mistake made again and again…….Wading…
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The 2019 Great Alaskan Heat Wave
It has been a warm one up here in Alaska this year. 3 different Alaskan cities experienced record high temperatures on the 4th of July, one of which was King Salmon, the home of our fly out lodge, Rapids Camp. It reached 89 degrees on Independence Day this year (for your reference, the average high…
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Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Club
In most parts of the world, Rainbow Trout eat aquatic insects that are brought to them by the current. They can sit effortlessly in a river, expending little energy as they get their calories by eating bugs like mayflies or midges. This is not the case in Alaska. Trout here do not act like Trout….
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