The third week at Alaska West started out by welcoming back a bunch of great friends to the Kanektok. Photo: Cameron Miller Guys like Jon Bengtson, Bob Davids, Jon Magnussen, Gary Thayer, Joe Dudra, George Cook, Raz Reid, Frank Ogden, Jim Gilmore and Paul Leslie-Smith. About half of our guests were new to the Kanektok,…
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Trout Fishing: Terminology
Garrett Sullivan fishes the bucket. What a surprise. Today we start a series of posts about classic trout fishing tactics. In this series, we’re not talking about the salmon-part-eating rainbows of Western Alaska— we’re talking about the mainly-insect-eating critters of the Rockies and the Northeast and our ‘classic trout’ fishery in Southern Chile. Much of…
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The Kanektok River – 9 Reasons to Love It
The Kankektok: it’s our home and we love it. Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West, we’re really, really lucky to call the Kanektok River our home. Our camp is located on the Kanektok, 6 miles from its mouth. If you told us we could have a camp anywhere in Alaska, we’d pick the Kanektok, 6…
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Dean River Steelhead Flies – 5 Favorites
Today our manager at BC West gives us a little introduction into some popular flies used in the pursuit of Dean River Steelhead. Everyone is looking for that magical combination of fur and feather, flash and fabric that will induce a steelhead to take. There has to be as much debate over whether or not the…
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Summer Fishing Availability
Come get in on the fun. Photo: Cameron Miller As most of our readers know, we try to keep the sales pitches to a minimum on our blog. That being said, if you’re working on planning a fishing trip for the summer, we want to make sure you’re aware of some pretty unusual openings that…
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Alaska Fly Fishing Wisdom
Fishing in Alaska is fun. Photo: Mike Duffy A week from today marks the start of our 2009 season at Alaska West. For those of you heading to Alaska this summer, and those of you just thinking about Alaska this summer, here’s a bunch of tips and other advice related to fly fishing in Alaska….
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Mousing for Rainbow Trout – 5 Tips
Mouse flies are not delicate. Photo: Cameron Miller One of the most fun and unique ways to target rainbow trout in Western Alaska is by ‘mousing’. Small voles and other rodents often find themselves in the river, intentionally or not, and our bigger predatory rainbows are always on the lookout for a meal that’s even…
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Secrets of the Flesh Fly
Sometimes all it takes is a little flesh. Photo: Ramsey Smith Trout that live in the lower sections of rivers like the Kanektok and the Arolik in Western Alaska get a lot of their calories from salmon flesh. That means that at Alaska West we spend a lot of time tying and fishing patterns that…
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Chile West Destinations Part Three: Cisnes
Scenery on the road to Cisnes Having already hit Palena and La Junta, part three of our four-part series on our destinations at Chile West covers our stay in Cisnes. The drive to Cisnes is spectacular. We head further south on the Carretera, into the Queulat (Kay-oo-lot) national park, passing through the town of Puyuhuapi (Poo-you-hwapee). One…
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Dana Sturn’s Steelhead Rig
What Dana Sturn will be doing on July 4, 2009. Dana Sturn and his partner Sean Ransom run Speypages.com – the internet’s premier resource for information related to spey casting and spey fishing. Dana started Speypages in 2000 and is an active spey instructor and destination travel host.Dana started fishing the Dean in the late…
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