This could be May, or October, or February. We operate three fly fishing lodges in different parts of the world. When we’re talking with a potential guest who’s interested in a trip with us, we’re frequently asked the question, “When’s the best time to go?” At most of our operations, that question will be answered…
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King Flies – The Mikey Prawn
Looks shrimpy, no? Photo: John Ford Brian Niska will be one of our spey instructors at Alaska West in 2010, for the third year running. Today Brian tells us a bit about one of his favorite king flies, the Mikey Prawn. One of Brian’s spey weeks is sold out, but there’s still space in his…
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Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It
You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven’t noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water, we think switch rods are pretty cool too. One of our favorite trout switch rods so far is the Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis. Here’s why. The…
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Nice Fish, Matt.
That’s a good one. Photo: Ryan Krogh There are some fish out there that deserve headline coverage. Matt Crawford joined us at Alaska West during the third week of July this year. 90 minutes into his first day ever fishing in Alaska, he landed this puppy. 30″ even. If you think Matt and his guide…
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Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 3 – Tactics
Trout spey tactic #427: Put the wood to ’em. Photo: Cameron Miller In the past couple of weeks we’ve covered why we think you should spey fish for trout, and which gear you should use when you do it. Today we’ll talk a bit about tactics to use when chasing rainbows with lightweight two-handers. Spey…
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Our Most Popular Posts from the First Half of 2009
Wow, 173 posts so far this year, all about fishing. Photo: Cameron Miller Yesterday marked the start of the second half of 2009. We’ve had a bunch of new readers checking out our blog lately, so we figured we’d take the opportunity to make sure no one has missed our 10 most popular posts to…
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Trout Fishing: Terminology
Garrett Sullivan fishes the bucket. What a surprise. Today we start a series of posts about classic trout fishing tactics. In this series, we’re not talking about the salmon-part-eating rainbows of Western Alaska— we’re talking about the mainly-insect-eating critters of the Rockies and the Northeast and our ‘classic trout’ fishery in Southern Chile. Much of…
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The Kanektok River – 9 Reasons to Love It
The Kankektok: it’s our home and we love it. Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West, we’re really, really lucky to call the Kanektok River our home. Our camp is located on the Kanektok, 6 miles from its mouth. If you told us we could have a camp anywhere in Alaska, we’d pick the Kanektok, 6…
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Summer Fishing Availability
Come get in on the fun. Photo: Cameron Miller As most of our readers know, we try to keep the sales pitches to a minimum on our blog. That being said, if you’re working on planning a fishing trip for the summer, we want to make sure you’re aware of some pretty unusual openings that…
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Top 7 Tips – Fly Fishing for Dorado
Yes, this is a productive, healthy harvest fishery. Fly fishing for dorado in a super-productive fishery like the Tongue of the Ocean off of South Andros Island is a ton of fun. The basic formula is fairly straightforward: locate cover which also locates bait, locate fish, strip flies. There’s a little more to it than…
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