You’ve taken the first step towards a fantastic fishing experience! We’ve received your inquiry and will be back in touch with you by email shortly – almost always within a day or two. For now, this page gives a short overview of our Alaska lodges, Rapids Camp and Alaska West. There’s much more information about…
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7 Reasons We Like To Fish Flesh
Our Alaskan season is just around the corner (71 days in fact, but who’s counting?), and that means it won’t be long before we’re chucking big flies for even bigger Alaskan rainbow trout. We’re really lucky to be able to target trout effectively using a whole bunch techniques from stripping and swinging streamers, to skating…
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Family Fishing Fun
We have two incredible lodges in Alaska that are perfect for fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and all your family in-between. Rapids Camp Our location on the Naknek River, in the heart of Bristol Bay, appeals to families looking for an all-inclusive, extremely comfortable adventure. Together, you have access to over a hundred rivers,…
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The Templedog – Tying Instructions
If you’ve been following our blog for some time, odds are you recognize the name Stuart Foxall. That’s because Stu has put together a bunch of great fly tying posts for our humble little blog. Today he’s back with another great step by step on how to tie an extremely effective salmon/steelhead pattern – The Templedog….
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Fly Tying Step by Steps – Roundup
It’s the weekend, and what better way to spend your Saturday or Sunday morning than sitting down at the vise with a big cup of coffee and cranking out some flies! We’ve put out quite a few fly tying step by steps over the past couple years for your tying pleasure, and odds are you haven’t…
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The Clouser Minnow – An Oldie but Goodie
We love to push the envelope when we’re at the vise, and like most fly tyers we’re always on the search for the next big fly pattern. However, today we’re taking a step back to pay tribute to one of the most versatile patterns of all time – The Clouser Minnow. Originally designed for smallmouth bass…
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Trout Spey Retrieve Methods – Video
Swinging flies for trout on light weight two-handers has gained quite a bit of popularity over the last few years, and for good reason.. It’s super fun! In a lot of ways, spey fishing for trout is very similar to swinging flies for salmon and steelhead. The casting is nearly identical, and most of the…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us here at Deneki Outdoors! We hope 2016 is your fishiest year yet. To wrap up 2015, we present you with the 10 most popular posts of 2015. Thanks for reading! Top 10 Posts of 2015 Nymphing Without an Indicator. The nitty gritty on bouncing without the bobber. Rigging With Wire…
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Fighting Fish Under the Boat
At Alaska West, we’re lucky to be able to target fish in a whole bunch of different ways; from swinging flies on foot, to walking smaller side channels, to rowing our jet sleds in traditional ‘drift boat’ fashion. Sometimes, when fishing for aggressive ‘podded up’ species like silver salmon, fishing from a fixed position makes…
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Simms Dry Creek Z Hip Pack
Whether swinging flies for salmon and steelhead, or tromping around on foot for bonefish, we really like fishing out of a hip pack. They’re easy to sling in and out of the boat, strap on when going for a walk, and in our humble opinion, much more comfortable to fish with than a traditional vest….
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