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Sep 16 2013

Don’t Forget Your Headlamp

Headlamp

On a recent fishing trip, your humble editor forgot his headlamp.  Today’s post is a friendly Public Service Announcement: on your next fishing trip, don’t forget your headlamp! Situations in Which a Headlamp is Very Useful Unloading your car at night Rummaging around in your room without waking up your roommate Making a late night…
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Sep 13 2013

9 Questions About Spey Fishing You Were Afraid to Ask

Skagit Casting

We love spey fishing.  We also know that spey fishing can be a little intimidating when you first dip your toe in. It shouldn’t be!  Spey fishing is just another fun way to fish.  It’s not better or worse or harder or easier or simpler or more complicated than ‘normal’ fly fishing. Today we present…
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Sep 09 2013

Golf Tee Popper

Golf Tee Popper

One of the things that attracts people to fly fishing is the creative aspect of it. This is seen in fly presentation, line modification, rod building and more, but the most common sign of creativity shows up in someone’s flies – or sometimes lack of flies. One of our long time friends here at Alaska…
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Sep 05 2013

5 Ways to Avoid Tangles in Your Running Line

Tangled Running Line

One of the most frustrating things about fishing with any kind of shooting head system (spey casting Skagit heads comes to mind) is the tangling that inevitably, occasionally, happens in your running line.  You make what was otherwise a beautiful cast, it stops suddenly way short of its target, you say some bad words, and…
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Sep 03 2013

Tying Sculpins with Trevor Covich

Sculpin Flies

Trevor Covich is a long-time member of the Deneki family.  Over the years he’s developed some pretty sweet sculpin patterns, and he’s here today in video form to show you just how to tie ’em! This is 20+ minutes of detail straight from the horse’s mouth – if you like to tie, grab yourself a…
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Aug 28 2013

Silver Salmon Popper by Chuck Shepard

Pink Popper - Chuck Shepard

The silver salmon fishing is hot up at Alaska West this time of the year, and these fish are really aggressive towards the fly.  Stripping a fly below the surface creates a jigging action that is hard for a Silver to resist, but one method that is often over looked is targeting them on the…
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Aug 27 2013

Easy to Swap Leaders

Swapping Leaders

If you’re bouncing around a river swinging flies for steelhead or salmon, you’re probably going to need to swap sinktips every once in a while.  You’re hopefully not making a change every 20 minutes, but when you move from a ripping boulder garden to a glassy tailout, you need to make a change. Today’s tip…
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Aug 24 2013

How to Fillet Salmon

How to Fillet Salmon-6

Speed Fillets We fillet a lot of fish at Alaska West.  We allow our guests to take home up to 50 pounds of fish that they catch during their week with us. We vacuum pack and freeze all of the fish before it’s boxed up and sent with the angler on the flight home. The…
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Aug 22 2013

Landing Steelhead – Try Upstream!

Upriver on the Dean

Time for more steelhead fishing wisdom from Scott Baker-McGarva, head guide at BC West! Go Upstream Sometimes when you leave an angler for a bit, you return only to see them struggling with a fish close to shore, (sometimes you need to leave the client to improve their mojo and fish attraction) and many will…
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Aug 16 2013

Adjusting the Swing

Chinook Salmon - Fred Telleen

Fred Telleen has been guiding on the Kenai River since 1989.  He also hosts groups at Alaska West during our king salmon fishing season.  Fred put together some thoughts on gear and swing techniques after his trip this year – experienced anglers in particular are going to like today’s post. Make sure you check out…
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