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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Fishing Reports
BC West Fishing Report: August 1 – 8
Everything took a turn for the better as we came out of the biggest heat wave ever to hit Canada. Photos: Gary Berenson, Paul Reid The river began to cool and the steelhead resumed their migration up the Dean. We may be able to attribute this to the steelhead karma of David and Dan Higman…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 31 – August 7
August arrived along with our week 8 guests and more silvers than most people know what to do with. Photo: Cameron Miller Guys like Keith Blue, George Latuda, Steve Welk and his sons Cy and Joe, Ross Beatty, Mac Beatty and Bruce Chard all know how good the fishing can be this week and once…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 25 – August 1
This week will go down in history – unfortunately not for the great fishing. Photos: Jim Zawadski, Paul Reid This was the week the all time temperature record was set for all of Canada! Best part was it was set right here in our neighborhood – 104 degrees was recorded at the Bella Coola airport…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 24 – 31
This week we welcomed back to Alaska West the renowned Dave Howe and Steve Ward who have brought with them many family members over the years. Photo: Cameron Miller This year was no exception. Dave was only able to bring his grandson Andrew Moura along for another great week of fishing, but he is hoping…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 18 – 25
Jersey Boys Steven Nelson and Karl Kjellburg showed up to the Dean for their first steelhead experience and wasted no time getting their groove on! Photos: Alfie King On their first morning they each landed a pair of steelhead on the lower river and declared that their trip was already made and it was all…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 17 – 24
This week we welcomed Tom Lewin of Frontier Fly Fishing from South Africa. Talk about a long way to go for some fish! Photo: Cameron Miller Fortunately he could not have made a better choice for his group’s destination – if you have to travel half way around the world for a week of fishing…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 11 – 18
Anglers All of Colorado brought a group of anglers to experience the Dean this week, and experience it they did. Photos: Paul Reid Lori Nicholson came in guns a-blazin and kept things high energy all week. She is great to have around and you can tell that her clients think the world of her. Kelly…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 10 – 17
This week we had four guests joining us for the second week in a row. Phil Hinton and Philip Walker along with Jon Baskin and Brian Niska decided one week was not enough punishment and each joined us for two weeks this season. Photo: Cameron Miller Phil and Philip both fished extremely hard and put…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 4 – 11
The second week of our season was a week of rolling with change. Photos: BC West Staff Our guests arrived to low clear conditions and sunshine with fish trickling into the lower river under bright sun. They hooked a few chinook and landed a few steelhead while hoping for a little more water. On the…
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