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
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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Long Live the King
For many anglers, Alaskan King Salmon is a favorite game fish, especially on the swing. If you’ve never experienced catching a King Salmon, you’re missing out. Averaging in size between 20 to 25 pounds, and will get up to an Alaskan 40 pounds. Hooking a King Salmon is like trying to haul in a Mack…
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Fly Tying: Fishaholic
Whether on the Kanektoke River at Alaska West Lodge or the Nushagak River at Rapids Camp Lodge, swinging flies is the most popular ways to catch King Salmon. The shear power these regal game fish possess puts you in awe and you can’t help but get exhuberant when you hook one. There are quiet a…
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Deneki Chronicles: 7-Weights for Alaskan Trout
Trout are big in Alaska, and that last thing you want is to be found wanting because your rod and reel are under gunned. In this week’s Deneki Chronicles, we discuss our favorite size fly rod for trout in Alaska. Enjoy! Ask any group anglers, “what’s your favorite trout rod,” and odds are you’ll hear of…
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