A couple weeks back we ran a post with a small gallery of photos by Brian Niska on chum salmon fishing at Alaska West. Today we present you with another batch of pictures from Brian, this time on the ‘other species’ available during chum season – king salmon. Nice shots, Brian! More on King Salmon…
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King Salmon Spey Rod Roundup
Today we wrap up our mini-series of posts about spey rods designed for king salmon. We started the series back on July 4th, with a post introducing the concepts surrounding spey rods purpose-built for kings. Based on our testing at BC West during the first week of our 2012 season, we ran reviews of 4…
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Spey Rods for King Salmon
One of our specialties at Deneki Outdoors is spey fishing for king salmon. Alaska West and BC West are located on two of the very few rivers in the world that provide consistent, productive fishing for kings (call ’em chinooks when you’re in Canada) on swung flies, and spey rods are the preferred tool for…
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What’s Your Favorite King Salmon Rod?
We’ve gotten some really interesting input from all of you when we’ve asked you about your favorite fly rods for steelhead, trout and bonefish. Since we’ll catching king salmon at Alaska West and chinook salmon at BC West (local terminology!) in just a few weeks, we figured it’s a great time to ask you about…
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New King Salmon Retention Policy at Alaska West
For years at Alaska West we’ve had a policy restricting the amount of salmon our anglers retain – to levels well below what Fish and Game regulations allow. The Kanektok is a healthy productive fishery, and bringing some fish home from a health productive fishery is a great benefit – but we’ve always wanted to…
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King Salmon and Indicators
Gasp! OK, OK! We admit it! Sometimes at Alaska West, we catch kings using something other than a swung fly and a two handed rod. Now why would we do such a thing? Well, because some of these ‘other’ techniques can be really effective, and more importantly, some of these ‘other’ techniques can be really,…
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5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
We’re already getting excited about the king salmon we’re going to be catching at Alaska West and BC West starting the second week of June. These are not your normal king fisheries – we’re swinging flies for hot chrome fish just a few miles for the salt, and that really turns our crank! Anyhow, we’ve…
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King Salmon in Week 1 at Alaska West
King salmon – the baddest and brightest of the season – on swung flies. That’s what the first trip of our season at Alaska West is all about. In 2011 ‘week 1’ is actually not a week-long trip. The run timing in the Kanektok is consistent enough that we can usually guess within a couple…
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The Kanektok River is Open for King Salmon Fishing
The Kanektok River, home of Alaska West, is open for king salmon fishing. Many of you have heard of the emergency closure affecting king salmon fishing on the Kenai River that was announced this past Friday. We feel really bad about the status of the Kenai – it’s an incredible river, and we and lots…
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King Salmon Fly Selection
George Cook pays us another visit today in video form, this time to talk about what 22 lucky anglers are going to be doing a week from today – selecting flies to use when chasing king salmon at Alaska West on the Kanektok. We filmed George in February of this year. He was looking forward…
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