For years the ‘standard’ hook sizes used in the pursuit of anadromous fish on swung flies were pretty darned big. 2/0 and 3/0 were ‘king hooks’ and 1/0 and 1 were ‘steelhead hooks’. In recent years many anglers we respect have been fishing hooks that are quite a bit smaller – 1 and 2 for…
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June’s Best Kept Secret – Trout!
During June at Alaska West, most of our guests are really, really fired up about catching king salmon on swung flies. That’s with good reason – our king fishery is a pretty darned unique resource. But in all that excitement about catching kings, it’s easy to forget that the trout fishing this time of year…
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Trout Parts
Today we continue our series of weekly posts straight from The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing – a new collection of 250 nuggets of fly fishing wisdom from Kirk Deeter and the late, great Charlie Meyers. We’re lucky enough to have gotten permission to post some excerpts from the book – read on! If…
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This is not a Steelhead.
Nope, she’s a resident rainbow trout from the home of Alaska West, the Kanektok River. She doesn’t need to swim out into the ocean to get fat. She lives in the Kanektok year round. Come summer, she parks herself on some structure on the lower river and chows on a salmon part buffet – eggs…
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On Your Marks, Get Set…
The first week of our season at Alaska West wraps up tomorrow, but as you may know we also operate a lodge on a little river in British Columbia called the Dean. Our team at BC West has been hard at work over the past few weeks getting things ready for our first guests of…
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Just a Friendly Reminder
…of what’s happening at Alaska West right now. There’s a bunch of people up there chasing king salmon with swung flies and two handed rods. They’re chasing rainbow trout too. More on King Salmon Dec Hogan’s King Rig Greg Thomas on Fresh Fish George Cook’s King Quiver
Don’t Forget About Me
Folks who are headed up to Alaska West in 12 days for the start of our season get pretty fired up about the early season king fishing – it’s all the rage. Don’t forget though – rainbow trout live in the Kanektok and the Arolik too, they’re available all season long, and they’re pretty awesome…
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Top Tips
We’re working hard to give you information about how to be a better angler – so far we’ve got 88 Fishing ‘Tip’ posts on our blog. We’ve got a really long list of topics that we’re going to be writing Tip posts about over the next few months – during Deneki FIBFest at Andros South,…
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How To Fish a Mouse Fly
In a little more than a month, our setup crew will be headed in to start prep work for our season at Alaska West. That makes us pretty twitchy about our summer fishing! One of our favorite ways to fish for rainbows on the Kanektok is using a mouse pattern. Mousing is really visual, it…
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Best of Deneki
Here are some links to the most popular blog posts and pages on our site. Fish on! 13 Habits of Highly Effective Anglers. Anglers who catch more fish have a lot in common – here are 13 of their habits. All About Spey Fishing. This page has an index of all the posts we’ve ever…
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