It’s summer, so I have to eat. Photo: Cameron Miller There are trout streams out there where highly educated trout demand perfect presentation. Long, light tippets are key. Pure, drag-free drift is essential, and if your fourth mend falls 3 inches left of where it should have, that fish is not going to eat. The…
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Dean River Run Timing
Jack Mawdsley, hooked up to a chinook in June. Unlike the Skeena system further north in British Columbia, the Dean River has a summer run of steelhead. Combined with chinook and coho salmon runs, this makes for a very busy summer on the Dean! Please note that for the purposes of this post, we’re talking…
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Family Fishing in Alaska Part Three – The Report
Dad got to catch some too. Bryan Whiting has been checking in with some posts about the trips he’s taken with his family to Alaska West. Today we get the full report, via an article he wrote about his family’s first trip. — Did the 2004 trip to Alaska West meet our personal need? Beyond…
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Family Fishing in Alaska Part Two
Good times with the family. Photo: Cameron Miller We continue our series from Bryan Whiting on planning a family fishing trip to Alaska. For 3 of the past 5 years, Bryan has brought various members of his family to Alaska West to fish for silvers and kings. Today we learn about getting ‘over the hump’…
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Nice Fish, Mike
Mike looks happy. Tim shares the joy. Photo: Cameron Miller. Mike Opitz has been fishing at Alaska West on the Kanektok for years. He’s a great angler and an even better guy, so we’re always particularly happy to see him playing with some Kanektok chrome. Nice fish, Mike. More Kanektok Kings King Rig Roundup We…
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Rick Sisler’s Rainbow Rig
The lower Kanektok River holds some fat rainbow trout, and Rick Sisler has gotten up close and personal with more of these slabs than anybody. Rick started guiding at Alaska West in 1998. He spent 8 years guiding on the river, and we’re now lucky enough to have him as a core member of the…
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Deneki Outdoors Expands to Chile
Deneki Outdoors has announced its newest operation, Chile West, which operates in Southern Chile. We run a mobile fishing trip from Palena to Balmaceda, hitting the hot spots along the Carretera Austral – the ‘highway’ through Southern Chile. We’re booking trips now for our 2009-2010 season – check out our Chile West web site and…
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