Corpses, zombies, rotting flesh, skeletons.. While that might sound like October 31st to most, that sounds more like August in our neck of the woods. Each summer, towards to end of our season at Alaska West, thousands upon thousands of salmon complete their life cycle, littering the banks in an image that more closely resembles…
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Bead Fishing for Trout: Advanced Rigging Tips
We’re back with our third and final installment of our series on advanced bead fishing tips from Deneki team member, Rob Rymph. In case you missed the others, be sure to check them out by clicking right here, and here. Today, Rob offers up a few advanced rigging tips he utilizes at Rapids Camp Lodge…
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Advanced Bead Fishing for Trout: Matching Bead to Hook Size
Last week we kicked off our master class on advanced bead fishing for rainbow trout with a great post on matching the egg-hatch courtesy of Rapids Camp Lodge guide, Alaska West alum, and certified bead ninja, Rob Rymph. Today, Rob is back with some great advice for choosing the appropriate hook size for the bead…
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Advanced Bead Fishing for Trout: Matching the Hatch
Salmon eggs make up a huge portion of the diet for our Alaskan rainbow trout, which is why bead fishing is arguably one of the most effective means of targeting trout with a fly rod in our neck of the woods. However, contrary to popular belief, fishing beads for trout can be extremely technical, going…
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Nice Fish, Bo!
While flipping through photos from our summer season, we couldn’t help but shed light on this specimen of a trout caught on foot by our good friend, and long time Deneki guest, Bo Brines. Bo has been joining us for years at Andros South. We finally convinced him to spend a week with us at…
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Timeless Tips: Streamer Fishing for Trout – 5 Techniques
The first official day of fall is only a few short days away, and for many of us, that means streamer season. Fall spawning trout (brook and brown trout) are most territorial during this time, rainbow trout are on the prowl for large food items to fatten up for the long winter ahead, and as always, the…
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Nice Fish, Kent!
Our pal Kent Ichiho joined us for the last week of our season this year marking his third consecutive year with us at Alaska West. During his stay, he mentioned how much he enjoyed fishing for our big leopard rainbows in the past, but had lost a few heartbreakers along the way. Well, we’re sure…
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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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Timeless Tips: Chum Salmon – Fly Fishing Techniques
Our annual chum salmon run is in full force, which is why today we present you with a great post from our pal, Brian Niska, on some tactics and gear advice when fishing for chum salmon on the Kanektok River as part of our ‘timeless tip tuesday’ series of posts. Who’s Brian? He’s a much better spey…
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