Sending you into your weekend with a few photos from a fantastic 2019 season at Rapids Camp. Our fly out lodge is located in the heart of Bristol Bay and offers you a fully customizable Alaskan fly fishing experience. We have a comfortable and spacious lodge with all the needed amenities, over a mile and…
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Rapids Camp
Do You Like Naps?
After catching fish all morning, we don’t think there is anything wrong with a little afternoon nap in the Tunda. We are trying to bring siestas to Alaska. Who’s with us? More from the Tunda: 2019 Great Alaskan Heat Wave A Tundra Sunset America the Beautiful
Tenkara Alaskan Style!
For the past 3 years, we have been lucky to host Karin Miller Fischer & her husband Erik Fischer at Rapids Camp Lodge. Karin owns Zen Tenkara out of Fort Collins Colorado and has been showing us the different applications for Tenkara fishing in Alaska the past few seasons. After her most recent trip, Karin…
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Who is Getting Hungry?
That face you make when you realize you are going to have a freezer full of fresh silver salmon. Here is one of our favorite guests, Ed Saboe, on the banks of the Nushagak River. This fish has only touched 1 other persons hand before it will be on Ed’s dinner platte. Can’t say that…
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Timeless Tips // Don’t Waste Time Untangling
This may seem obvious but I still see it so often on the river banks that I figured I would bring it up. When you get a big tangle, you know the type that look like a birds nest made out of monofilament, don’t waste your time trying to untangle it. Simply clip it and…
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Liz Fincher’s Naknek Swing Rig
Now is the time to chase that fish of a lifetime on our home river, the Naknek. One of the best spots on the planet to target a 30” wild rainbow trout is in the fall on the Rapids stretch of the Naknek River. Our lodge, Rapids Camp, is appropriately named as it offers us…
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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report
The incredible ecosystem that is Bristol Bay Alaska had another record breaking year in terms of salmon numbers. According to KDLG, 56.3 million salmon returned to Bristol Bay in 2019. The commercial harvest was the second largest ever at 43 million fish. The total run for the Bay was 33% higher than they forecasted giving…
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Sight Fishing Tip
From Alaska to the Rocky Mountains, by this time of year, stream flows have dropped and the waters are clear. This gives us some perfect conditions to sight fish. Different from sight fishing to a tailing Bonefish on the flats, here we have to play the current, and use that moving water to bring our…
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“Pano” Mode on your Phone
Now a days any 8 year old with an iPhone can take a great photo. The technology of the cameras on our phones is becoming so good that it takes DSLR quality photos, without having to have a degree in photography. A lot of these phones have various camera settings that go unused by the…
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Reminder: Tomorrow is a Day for Bristol Bay!
Just a reminder that tomorrow, August 24th, is AFFTA’s a Day for Bristol Bay! We have a big fight ahead of us and need to be united as an industry. Fly shops, manufacturers, guides, outfitters, lodges and more industry professionals nationwide have banded together for A Day for Bristol Bay to raise much-needed funding for…
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