Despite the vibrant red stripe on the majority of our trout in Western Alaska, the dark mottled back of a rainbow trout provides surprisingly good camouflage – an adaptation developed to protect from predators from above. Even in clear water, that can make them difficult to spot to the untrained eye, especially from a moving boat….
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Three Good Articles – Spring Trout Edition
Today marks the first official day of spring, and we know for many of you that can only mean one thing.. Spring trout fishing! Therefore, this month’s edition of three good articles has a theme.. You got it.. Fly fishing for spring trout! Enjoy. Three Good Articles – Spring Trout Tips Edition The Secrets of…
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Bring Home More Than Just Memories
From Bristol Bay, Alaska We run the finest sportfishing program in Alaska’s beautiful Bristol Bay region. Sitting on the edge of the famed Naknek River, you are within eyeshot of the stomping grounds of the most aggressive, predacious rainbow trout anywhere on Earth. Then there are the planes staring back, ready to take you on…
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Fish Hard, Wade Easy
We could talk all day long about why we love our home river at Alaska West – from our impressive run of chrome bright king salmon, to our stunning resident leopard rainbow trout, to our staggering numbers of aggressive cohos, to our, well, you get the point. However, one aspect of our river that many…
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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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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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Three Good Articles
We’re back again with our mid-monthly run of three good fly fishing articles from around the web that we enjoyed and think you will too. Enjoy! Three Good Articles Seeing the Fish: Tips on How to Focus and See More Fish. Deneki pal and redfish guide extraordinaire, Owen Plair, on sight fishing for anything that swims…
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Two Is Better Than One
What’s better than landing a fat, wild, Naknek rainbow trout on a surface fly? Landing TWO fat, wild, Nanek rainbow trout on a surface fly. Deneki pal, David Kalinowski, rounds out a double while smolt bustin’ at Rapids Camp Lodge. More on Rainbow Trout Mousing for Trout – 5 Tips Alaska Rainbow Fishing – When to…
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Plan Your Next Fishing Adventure
If you can’t stop thinking about … Swinging flies to chrome bright king salmon Throwing topwater patterns to monster rainbow trout Wading pristine tropical flats for tailing bonefish Or catching the steelhead of a lifetime Then you’ve come to the right place(s)! We’ve not only got you covered, but we’ll also provide three tasty meals…
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Small Fish, Big Meal
We’ve said it many times before, but we love fishing giant flies for our trout in western Alaska. Some might assume that that’s because we subscribe to the ‘big fly, big fish’ theory of fly selection.. However, in our neck of the woods, abundant food sources and a short growing season lends itself to trout,…
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