If there’s a mecca for Alaskan grayling fishing, Fairbanks has to be it! Jason Rivers manages Big Ray’s Fly Shop in Fairbanks, and he was kind enough to put together his go-to grayling rig for us. Thanks, Jason! Grayling Rig Introduction Fairbanks, Alaska would not be the first place you would find water to use…
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What We Catch at Alaska West
At Alaska West our fishery is not only incredibly productive – it’s got so much variety you couldn’t hope to sample it all in one trip. Here’s a handy guide to the species we catch at Alaska West, in very rough order of when you might catch them, except for the oddballs thrown in at…
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Alaska West Availability Update
We’re well into our booking season for the summer of 2013 at Alaska West, and today we thought we’d take the opportunity to tell you about some weeks this summer that still have decent availability. There aren’t many, but the quality is high! June 14 – 21. This is the fishery that made us famous…
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More Ways to Find Posts on Our Site
Today’s post is meant mostly for Power Users of our site – the folks who know their way around, read lots of our articles, and probably even contribute comments every here and again. But there’s something for the newcomers as well! Our posts are categorized in a few different ways. There are more than 1400…
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Casting in Paradise
The most beautiful place in the world to wet a line, maybe? More on the Dean River Big Flies, Leaders and More Top Posts on Dean Chinooks Our Fishery
We’ll Stop Here for Lunch
More Pretty Places on Andros Island It’s Nice Down Here. Cover of Bonefish Magazine Big Flat
Michael White’s Steelhead Rig
We’ve had a flurry of posts recently about steelhead rigging, and in the process of revisiting everything we’ve written we realized that somehow, in the past 4 years, we’ve never run the Expert Rig of one of the most qualified guys out there. Today we right that wrong. Michael White a. k. a. “Whitey” is…
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Your Steelhead Rigs
When more than 80 of you really thoughtfully wrote up your steelhead rigs for our free Bougle contest, you helped created a really cool resource. Already more than 1600 unique anglers have checked out that page, and they’ve no doubt gotten some new ideas on steelhead rigging, at the very least. Looking at all those…
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Rainbows and Silvers, Living Together
A recent conversation with a very experienced Alaska booking agent reminded us of a really unique aspect of our fishery at Alaska West that we sometimes take for granted – we have world class fishing for silver salmon and rainbow trout, at the same time, on the same stretch of river. Silvers and Rainbows –…
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Get Loused
A subtle reminder of what those little critters above the anal fin of a Western Alaska or Dean salmon and steelhead really mean – you’re holding a mega-fresh fish that exited saltwater very, very recently. That’s both flat-out awesome and probably a good reason the battle was so epic. But, since we’ve honestly got the…
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