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Jul 19 2013

Jordan Sly’s Early Season ‘Low Bow’ Rig

Time for more trout rigging detail! Here’s how Jordan Sly chases the big boys at Alaska West. Jordan Sly’s Early Season Lower River Trout Rig I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the dilemma “upriver for quantity, or downriver for quality” here at Alaska West, but it is a common one. This question is…
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Jul 13 2013

Spots.

Here’s our friend Brian Pitser, with a really heavily spotted leopard rainbow trout. More on Leopard Rainbows Introduction to Trout at Alaska West All About Trout Fishing – Link Page You Don’t Know Where the Big Ones Live

Jul 11 2013

Jordan Sly’s Trout Swinging Rig

Jordan Sly is back today, this time with another information-packed post for our Expert Rig series. Jordan Sly’s Trout Swinging Rig Here at Alaska West our river is just asking to have a fly swung through the water column. Swinging flies for trout is not only fun, but it is also often very effective and…
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Jul 08 2013

Sculpin

This is why we fish a lot of large sculpin patterns for large rainbow trout at Alaska West. More on Large Rainbow Trout Really Rad Rainbows Nice Fish, Gary Western Alaska Trout Lifecycles

Jun 20 2013

We’re Not in the Keys Any More

Bruce Chard, legendary Florida Keys guide and Andros South Bonefishing School instructor, brought his son B.J. to Alaska West last summer. They had a blast, despite having to wear a lot more clothing than they’re used to back at home… Nice fish, guys! More on Rainbow Trout in Alaska Fishing Techniques We Use for Trout…
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Jun 08 2013

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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May 27 2013

Catching Lots of Fish is Fun

We love fishing mainly because it allows us to have great experiences with wonderful people in beautiful places. But – catching a whole lot of fish is really, really fun. More on Catching Lots of Fish Best Silver Salmon Fishing in the World 3 Ways to Catch More Bonefish Alaskan Trout – 5 Ways to…
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May 02 2013

5 Reasons to Fish Week One

You might have heard that Alaska West runs a spey instruction program during our king salmon season – we bring the best casters and teachers in the world to the lodge to help you get better with your casting. Charles St. Pierre is our longtime instructor during the first week of our season. Today he…
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