Today we present to you the email that goes from our head guide to our guests a month before their trip to Alaska West. We’re running it today for two reasons – to toot our own horn, and to give you some more useful information about getting ready for a trip to Alaska. Tooting Our…
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Insider Alaska Fishing Tips
How about just three handy tips for fishing trips to Alaska, from the team that has spent a whole heck of a bunch of years up there? Alaska Insider Fishing Tips Keep the DEET away from your fishing gear. It’s by far the most effective repellent when the bugs are really bad, but DEET is…
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Best Alaska Rainbow Trout Posts
Every month or so we like to run a list that ’rounds up’ our best/most popular/favorite posts on a particular topic. With ~1800 pages on our site we understand that it can be a little tough to find everything – hopefully these lists help! Today’s topic? Alaskan rainbow trout! 10 Favorite Posts on Rainbow Trout…
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Western Alaska Trout Fishing Techniques
We are really lucky at Alaska West to have an incredibly varied fishery for rainbow trout. We fish many different parts of our river using a bunch of different techniques to catch a wide range of trout. We use so many different techniques that you couldn’t hope to cover them in a single post –…
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Follow an Alaska Fishing Guide’s Preparations
Spencer Dixon guides for Alaska West during the summer months. During the winter he guides out of Cascadia Fly Shop in Oregon – and he’s writing a series of posts for the Cascadia blog about his preparations for the summer at Alaska West. He started with this post – 65 days before his departure for…
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Deneki Logo Gear
We thought today that we’d give you a friendly reminder of some of the delightful apparel we have available on our online store. Thanks for listening! Pictured above is our stylish yet refined BC West Trucker Hat. The lodge is sold out for the 2013 season…but you can still own the hat. For years you asked…
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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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Best Gear Posts of 2012
We’re nearing the end of the year, and you know what that means – we wouldn’t be a self-respecting blog without running a series on our best posts of the year. For 2012 we’re going to go with the top 7 in each category, because 7 seems like a good number and we’re a little…
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Our Fly Fishing Gear Page
Did you know that this page on our web site neatly categorizes the posts about fly fishing gear on our web site – 168 of them so far? Reviews, expert rigs, gear-related tips, favorite flies…it’s all there. Our favorite lens for the flats? Check. How to rig tube flies? Got it. Dana Sturn’s steelhead rig?…
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New Cold Weather Gear from Simms
We got a peek last week at some new gear that Simms is shipping this fall, courtesy of our friendly local Simms rep. We really liked a few of the items, so we thought we’d tell you about them! They’re all headed to your friendly local Simms dealer on or about August 1st. Guide Windstopper…
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