It’s official – we’re in full-on summer fishing mode! Last weekend we opened at Alaska West, and today is our first day of fishing at BC West on the Dean. We’re going to see a bunch of you over the course of the summer, and we’re really looking forward to good times together on the…
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Navigating our Web Site
We’re getting lots of new visitors to our web site every day – thanks so much to all of you for stopping by! We also have almost 1,500 pages of content these days, so we figured it was time for a quick primer on what you can find on our web site, and where you…
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4 Tips for Trout Fishing in Side Channels
We’re lucky at Alaska West to have incredibly varied rainbow trout fishing. We use mice, sculpins, leeches, flesh flies, beads, smolts and more. We use single- and double-handed rods. And we fish lots of different parts of our rivers, from the big main channel to upriver spawning beds to little tiny side channels. Fishing side…
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Deneki Gear Store
We’re thrilled to announce that the Deneki Gear Store is open for business – we now have logo gear from our lodges available to you online! We’re getting started with t-shirts, as well as hats and visors. Those cool Salmon Grand Slam and Bonefish t-shirts we’ve given away a few times on our site? You…
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Alaska Fly Fishing Gear
Since spring is in the air, lots of folks are tinkering around with gear that they’re going to fish with in Alaska this summer. With that in mind, we present to you our most popular posts about fly fishing gear for Alaska. Top 10 Alaska Fly Fishing Gear Posts King Rig Roundup. Expert spey anglers…
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Complaint Letter
It’s not often that we receive complaints from our guests, so we thought we’d share this scathing letter we recently received from Rebecca Garlock. My Official Deneki Complaint Letter It’s been exactly one year since I came home from a week of fly fishing for bonefish at Andros South and I have a couple of…
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Just Fishin’
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In our never-ending effort to make sure you don’t miss out on any of the good stuff on our blog, we periodically run lists of our most popular posts. While building those lists, though, we also often come across posts that we think should be on the list, but aren’t! In that vain, today we…
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Photo Caption Contest Winner
Congratulations to Paul, who submitted the winning entry in our photo caption contest over this past week! It’s a timeless quote, well known to all parents, best imagined being screamed at the top of Elias’s enthusiastic lungs. Paul’s caption: “ARE WE THERE YET?” We declared Paul the winner and sent him a free Alaska Salmon…
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Bruce Chard’s Pollywog Rig for Silvers
Bruce Chard is best known as one of the elite guides in the Florida Keys, and as a fly fishing instructor. He’s actually a really well-rounded angler who fishes all over the world. Bruce loves fishing for silver salmon at Alaska West. In fact, he’s hosting a group this summer and you can drop us…
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