Rapids Camp

Deneki Chronicles: 5 Ways to Control the Speed of Your Swing
Searching for that 'perfect swing.' Photo: Kyle Shea When swinging for anadramous species like king salmon or steelhead, more often than not, the slower the swing...

Gear Review: Simms ExStream Hooded Jacket
Simms ExStream Hooded Jacket. Photo: simmsfishing.com For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we're entering a punishing stretch of cold and darkness. For the diehard fly anglers, you're dying...

Fly Tying: Metal Detector
Hello! It's November, and you know what that means... It's the holiday season. Lights are going up, Christmas shopping, and the Hallmark Channel Movie Marathons have begun. All That said,...

Fly Tying: Incognito Wooly Bugger
With Halloween just coming up this week, we thought we'd tie a golden oldie fly pattern and dress it up. From our friend Stuart Foxall, comes a variant of the...

Deneki Chronicles: Swinging Flies – Don’t Block Your Hookset
Be ready! Photos: Ben West. In any avenue of fly fishing, one thing that separates successful anglers from not-so-successful anglers is complete, undivided, fully engaged, focus whenever...

Spey Casts You Need to Learn
More Spey Casts Than One. Photo: Tosh Brown. When it comes to Spey casting, everyone has their "go-to" cast. Your go-to cast is probably the first Spey cast you learned,...

Fly Tying: The Goblin
Halloween is just around the corner and what better fly to tie than a fly called the "Goblin." This is a pattern created by Alaska fishing guide and fisheries conservationist,...

Best of Alaska 2021: Rapids Camp
Rapids Camp Lodge had a great season. Would we tell you otherwise if we didn't? Of course not. But we truly did have an awesome season and here are some...