We’re fortunate to live on a river that has an extremely productive silver salmon fishery (from late July through early September), and by far our favorite way to target them is on poppers! Yep, most likely the same style of flies used on your local bass pond. Although not usually as productive as streamers, under the…
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Weekly Fish Stories – That Fish
We’re back today with another edition of our ‘Weekly Fish Stories,’ where guides and guests from our lodges share a brief snapshot of memorable moment on the water. Today, our own Jason Whiting shares a quick story from a day of trout fishing with a fishy father-son duo, Ted and Dean Tsandes, at Alaska West….
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The Bunny Snaelda – Update
Last month we brought to you step by step tying instructions for the ‘Bunny Snaelda,’ a new variation of a popular Atlantic salmon pattern (the Franc N Snaelda) that we’ve seen do really well on our king salmon here at Alaska West. Well, our pal Stuart Foxall recently put it to the test on our…
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History of the Intruder – Interview with Jerry French
Steelhead anglers rejoice! The folks from the Ashland Fly Shop recently conducted a great interview with our pal and Alaska West family member, Jerry French, featuring some great insight on fly selection, spey casting, and an in-depth history of the evolution of the intruder-style fly patterns many of us use today. If you like swinging flies…
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First Landed Permit at Andros South
While South Andros is known throughout the angling the community an incredibly diverse bonefish fishery, what it is not known for (and accurately so) is a grand-slam fishery – One with decent odds of catching other gucci flats species like tarpon or permit. That being said, over the years a few of our lucky guests have…
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Rainbow Trout Flies – Our Favorites at Alaska West
We’re in the process of filing up our boxes for our summer season at Alaska West (we hope some of you are too), and we’ve got one of our favorite species on our mind – Big, wild, Alaskan, leopard rainbow trout. Therefore, for all those looking to stock up on flies for the coming season, we…
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Stay in Control – Incorporate Weight Into Your Streamers
We all love fishing for trout with surface flies, and in our neck of the woods, there’s nothing quite like watching a trout inhale a rodent.. However, at the end of the day, its arguable that the most effective way to chase these big Alaskan bad boys over the course of a season is to…
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Trout are Trout
It goes without saying that Alaskan rainbow trout are different from their brethren in the lower forty-eight. Their feeding behavior alone more closely resembles the predatory nature of a Northern Pike than that of a resident trout. Therefore, with mice, sculpin, salmon smolt, and huge chunks of dead salmon flesh on the menu, often times bigger is…
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Hone Your Skills at Andros South
The beauty of fly fishing is that regardless of your experience level, there’s always room for improvement. There’s no mastery. No perfection. Just a life long journey of learning. It’s a huge part of what makes our sport so great to begin with. In fact, we often hear from our anglers that an important part of their trip…
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Three Good Articles
We’re humbled each day by how many of you check in with us for your daily dose of fly fishing. However, there are a lot of other great fly fishing articles out there too, and today we share a few of those articles with you. Enjoy! Three Good Articles Your Fly Fishing Go Bag. George Costa…
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