This fly is brought to us from prolific tier, Spey Angler, and friend of Deneki Outdoors the one and only Stuart Foxall. Currently, Stuart is a part of the AquaFlies team. This dog will hunt. The Black n Silver Templedog is one of the most popular Atlantic salmon flies in Scandinavian rivers when there’s fresh…
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Deneki Chronicles: Silver Salmon Round-Up
Coming soon to a river near us, Silver Salmon! It is just about that time of year when the acrobatic Silver Salmon fill the rivers outside both Alaska West and Rapids Camp Lodge. We are already anticipating the first topwater explosion from a Coho on a bright pink Pollywog. In honor of this event, we…
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Fly Tying: Twofer
Salmon are in, and that means a flesh and egg drop will happen soon. Arguably one of the most effective styles flies for Big Alaskan Rainbow Trout, and the flesh pattern is a relatively easy tie. Simple materials, simple methods. The simplicity of the flesh pattern also allows you to mix and match rabbit colors…
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Deneki Chronicles: 7 Reasons We Like To Fish Flesh
Our Alaskan season is just around the corner (71 days in fact, but who’s counting?), and that means it won’t be long before we’re chucking big flies for even bigger Alaskan rainbow trout. We’re really lucky to be able to target trout effectively using a whole bunch techniques from stripping and swinging streamers, to skating…
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Rapids Camp Lodge: Guides, Guests, and Bears
It’s Booming at Rapids Camp Lodge. All the fish are cooperating, the guides are putting the guests on fish, and guess what? Bears decided to join us. Fun fact…there are more bears in Alaska than there are people. Bears are cool and we can watch them all day. At Rapids Camp Lodge, as part of…
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Rapids Camp Lodge 2021 Highlights
Well, we’re just over a month in the season at Rapids Camp Lodge. It has been cold, wet, and windy. But the warm hospitality of the Staff, our inspired and determined guests, Rapids Camp Lodge has more than made up for the challenging weather. Regardless of the weather, our guests were hankering a chance to…
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Fly Tying: Larimer’s Loop Sculpin
Deneki Outdoors Alum Tom Larimer is currently the National Sales Manager for G. Loomis Fly Fishing Division and Skagit line designer for Airflo. In his prior life, Tom was an Alaska fishing and Pacific Northwest (PNW) steelhead guide. It was during Tom’s guiding career, he created The Loop Sculpin pattern for his Alaska and PNW…
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Recipe for the Ultimate Bristol Bay Trip
*Meghan Barker works for Trout Unlimited Alaska in Anchorage on the Save Bristol Bay campaign. She is a guest contributor and visited Rapids Camp Lodge in early July. I had the opportunity to make this recipe on a last-minute trip out to southwest Alaska in early July, and it was an absolute hit. Before you…
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RIO Flies We Like for Trout
You like it, we like it…catching trout that is, and we like flies that catch them. Here are some of the flies that caught our eye in RIO’s catalog of trout flies. Get ’em. Try ’em. Catch Trout. String Leech– A great fall fly for steelhead, but rainbows can’t stay away from them either. Color…
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Fly Tying: Pinky Tuscadero
Silver (Coho) Salmon love pink and movement in flies Aggresive, feisty, and fun Silver Salmon are arguably pound-for-pound the best fighting fish nature has to offer. When it comes to Silver Salmon flies, these anadromous fish love the color pink and movement. The Pinky Tuscadero embodies both attributes in a fly Silver Salmon seek. Silver…
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