A couple weeks back we ran a post with a small gallery of photos by Brian Niska on chum salmon fishing at Alaska West. Today we present you with another batch of pictures from Brian, this time on the ‘other species’ available during chum season – king salmon. Nice shots, Brian! More on King Salmon…
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Chum Salmon Mini Gallery
Brian Niska, as you may now, is the owner of Whistler Fly Fishing, a spey rod designer, and one of our crack team of guest spey instructors at Alaska West and BC West. He also takes some great photos. We’ve got Brian to thank for today’s mini-gallery about swinging flies for chum salmon at Alaska…
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Father Son Fun
We’ve said it before – one of the most gratifying parts of being in this business is that we get to take families fishing together. Long time guest and friend Fraser Heston brought his son Jack up to Alaska West during kings this year. They had a great time and we had a great time…
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Really Nice Fish, Mike!
Congratulations to Mike Walsh for landing this big, beautiful chinook salmon at BC West last week! Mike has been fishing the Dean with us for three years in hopes of getting a beauty like this one. Three years? Well you see, fish like this get hooked pretty regularly on the Dean, but getting one to…
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Nice Fish, Steve
Jeff Hickman shows us Steve Joyce‘s nice king salmon caught with a spey rod at Alaska West. Nice fish, Steve! P.S. It’s king season at Alaska West right now. More on Kings at Alaska West Dec Hogan – When It All Comes Together 5 Ways to Catch More Dave Victor with a Really Nice One
Quad.
Our silver salmon fishery at Alaska West is very numbers-oriented. Doubles are very, very common. We think it’s pretty cool, though, when a family – like the Whitings pictured above – pulls off a quad. From the looks on their faces they seem to agree! More on Silver Salmon at Alaska West It’s the Best…
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Bonefish
One reason we love Louis Cahill‘s pictures is that he shows us things that we’ve seen a lot, but from very different angles. More Pictures from Louis Tailing Bonefish Skiff Angler Bonefish Shadow
It’s Almost Time
Our setup crew has arrived at Alaska West! You know what that means – in just a couple of weeks, a bunch of our friends will be engaged in the activity pictured above. We still have a few spots available for this season in prime king salmon, silver salmon and rainbow trout weeks. Drop us…
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Nice ‘Cuda, Mary
Mary Moeller joined us at Andros South a few weeks back for some fun on the flats, as you can see above. That’s a nice ‘cuda! Now, landing big ‘cudas is not all that uncommon on South Andros – on actual ‘cuda rigs, that is. And every once in a while somebody gets lucky and…
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Nice Fish, Gary
Gary Davisson and his son Greg are long-time guests of ours at Alaska West – and this spring they’ll be joining us at Andros South too! Here’s an example of the critters that keep them coming back to Alaska West. Nice fish, Gary! More on Alaska Rainbow Trout All About Rainbow Trout Michael White’s Switch…
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