Today we present to you a review of the Scott T2H 12510/4 – a spey rod designed specifically for anglers chasing king salmon. Introduction It’s hard to make spey rods designed to catch big fish! Setting aside more ‘secondary’ factors like taper and grips, the two fundamental variables in rod design are length and weight….
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Jeff Hickman’s King Rig
Time for another king rig! Jeff Hickman is a Deneki Outdoors alumnus who guided five seasons for us at Alaska West, and he’s now a popular year-round steelhead guide in Oregon. Jeff will be returning to Alaska West this summer from June 12th to the 17th to host our spey instruction program and catch some…
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Chum Salmon – Fly Fishing Techniques
Last week, Brian Niska told us a bit about chum salmon and the Kanektok River. Today, he continues with some tactics and gear advice. Who’s Brian? He’s a much better spey caster than you are. He loves teaching people how to cast and fish flies for anadromous fish. He runs a fly shop and guide…
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Chum Salmon on Swung Flies
Brian Niska is one of our guest spey instruction gurus at Alaska West. He also owns Whistler Fly Fishing. He put together a couple of great posts for us about the hardest working fish in the river – the chum salmon. Brian’s teaching spey casting for two weeks at Alaska West this summer. One of…
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Top Salmon Fishing Posts of 2010
Congratulations – you’re about to endure the last of our ‘Best of 2010’ posts. You’ve seen which of our articles about trout, and bonefish, and steelhead were most popular in 2010. If there’s anything we know well it’s fly fishing for salmon, and today you get to see which of our top 10 salmon fishing…
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Backyard Salmon
Rivers change every year, and the Kanektok River, home of Alaska West, changes more than most. As a gravelly, low-gradient river, runs come and go with regularity on the Kanektok. Sometimes we get great water right in our backyard… And that’s the topic of today’s guest post by Kimi Reid. Kimi is a proud alumna…
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Salmon Recipe from Jim Palmersheim
Today we continue our series of recipes from our team at Alaska West – a bunch of folks who get the chance to partake in beautiful fresh wild salmon quite a lot in the course of a summer… Jim Palmersheim quickly became a fan favorite on our guide staff a few years back. Not only…
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Eat Wild Salmon, Not Wild Steelhead
Fish is great food, but for folks who don’t have a close understanding of the issues related to commercial fishing, deciding which fish to eat can be a little confusing. The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program is the definitive source of information on which fish you can feel good about eating. In this article…
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Kings on the Swing
In the angling circles of the Pacific Northwest, there are still some doubters out there. We know because we run into them. “Kings don’t eat swung flies – you have to force-feed them nymphs.” “Sure, you might hook one, but then it’s like reeling in a mattress.” Folks who say those things have been fishing…
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Trout Food: Salmon Flesh
Today we’re starting a series of posts on Trout Food in Western Alaska. We’ll tell you about the major food sources that make up an Alaskan rainbow’s diet, and we’ll also show you some flies that can be used to imitate that food. The first food source that we’ll cover is arguably the most important…
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