Today we’re coming at you with another addition of a series of posts addressing some basic questions on the topics we cover most. We’ve already covered some of the basic questions involving Alaskan trout, bonefish, and even spey fishing. Now its time to address the biggest and baddest of them all, the king salmon. 9…
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Our Rivers
Just a Few of Our Fishing Locations Naknek River. Logically our home river deserves special attention. Being part of the greater Naknek Lake system, our river drains millions of gallons of fresh water out into the Bering Sea and is one of the largest migratory routes on the planet for Pacific Salmon and home to…
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Put the Wood to ‘Em
We’ve harped on this before, but when fighting big anadramous fish it’s crucial to keep the pressure on all the way throughout the fight. This means bending the rod all the way down to the butt section as this is where the strength of the rod is. At Alaska West we see many fish come unbuttoned due to…
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Battlin’
Angler and critter, locked in battle on the Dean River. More on Fighting Fish Top 5 Mistakes Made Fighting Big Fish Down and Dirty How to Land a Bonefish
13 Habits of Unaccomplished Anglers
Last week we ran an article called 13 Habits of Highly Effective Anglers. It somehow wound up pretty popular – thanks to the 4,882 of you who have checked it out so far! Our good friend Kirk Werner has a fantastic blog called the Unaccomplished Angler. We were thrilled when Kirk agreed to put together…
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Try a Mono Running Line on Your Switch Rod
If you’ve read many of the posts about spey fishing on our blog, you know that a lot of Deneki-folk prefer mono running lines on our two-handed rods. There’s a lot of personal preference in running line choice for sure. Mono running lines have some drawbacks – notably a bit of a learning curve in…
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Sage ONE Switch Rod – 8116-4 Review
When we heard that the switch rods in Sage’s ONE lineup would be 11’6″ long, we got pretty excited, for two reasons. Rods north of 11′ tend to work a lot better for our ‘short spey’ applications of switch rods. Yeah, an 11′ rod might overhead cast better…but in our world we don’t overhead cast…
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Tom Larimer’s Steelhead Rig, 2013 Edition
We ran our first Expert Rig post over four years ago. Whoa! That’s pretty cool…except for the fact that things have changed a lot in the past four years. We’ve heard from quite a few of you that you’d like updates on what our fishing experts are fishing now, so today we start the very…
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Leader Length and Fly Weight
Today we continue our Alaska Guide Secrets series, in which you get the inside scoop direct from our guide crew at Alaska West. You’ve decided which fly to fish and maybe even which sinktip to use. Now you need to decide whether your leader should be 2 feet, 6 feet or 12 feet long. Got…
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What Not to Do
In our never-ending quest to provide you with useful fishing tips, we’ve tried a whole bunch of different formats to communicate ways you can fish better and have more fun doing it. Bulleted lists, eloquent prose (ahem), videos, photo illustrations – we’ve tried it all. We’ve also told you what to do by telling you…
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