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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Grillos’ Quick Silver Popper
Background Andrew Grillos is an Alaska West alumnus, an Idylwilde Signature Tier, a Scott Fly Rods Pro Staffer, a Simms Guide Ambassador…and a guide based out of Seattle (you can contact him here). Silver salmon at Alaska West are incredibly plentiful and ridiculously aggressive, and you can catch them on all kinds of stuff. Andrew…
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The Modern Day Gong Show
We’ve got another guest post today from Josh Mills on the hilarity that can ensue when you’re fishing with friends and somebody hooks up. Josh has a great blog about Fly Fishing, Bird Hunting and General Life Craziness. We love Josh’s stuff and think you should check it out. One quick note before we get…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Bead Rig
In the past couple of weeks we’ve learned from J.E.B. Hall about how he rigs up and chases rainbow trout in Alaska with mouse patterns and sculpin patterns. Today we wrap up our mini-series on JEB’s trout rigs as he tells us about how he uses beads to imitate salmon eggs. Once again, it’s built…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig
Last week you got to soak up some Alaska mousing knowledge from JEB Hall, courtesy of our expert rig post on how he approaches mousing at Alaska West. Today, our JEB trout series continues, with The Goods on how JEB fishes sculpin patterns. Read on! The Summary Sage 690-4 One Sage 4250 Reel Scientific Anglers…
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Alaska Non-Fishing Mini Gallery
Today we’ve got a mini-gallery of photos from Alaska West – none of which contains fish or fishing! More on Alaska West Introduction to Alaska West 5 Reasons to Chase Silver Salmon Mousing for Rainbows: 5 Tips
J.E.B. Hall’s Rodent Rig
J.E.B. Hall is more than just The South’s Cultural Ambassador to Alaska West. He’s an actual ambassador for Feel Free Kayaks, the author of the Southern Appalachian Fly Guide, and he takes real good photos. Most importantly though, he’s one heck of a fly fishing guide, and he knows his rainbow trout, and he’s one…
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You’re Probably Not Up For It
Chasing Chinook Salmon on the Dean River is not for everyone. If you’re like most anglers out there in the world, you’re just not up for it. We know of no greater challenge in fresh water than to land one of these beasts. There’s also no greater accomplishment – but it’s critical to understand the…
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Nice Fish, Brian
Brian Pitser joined us at Alaska West earlier this year for a week of starry flounder fishing. After a winter of tying starry flounder flies and practicing starry flounder retrieves, he was thrilled to land this beauty. Nice fish, Brian. OK, OK – just joking. We don’t actually target starry flounder at Alaska West. We…
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