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Jun 24 2013

Grilled Smoked Salmon

Grilled Smoked Salmon

Salmon are returning home to rivers across the northwest right now, so we figured it’s a good time to share another salmon recipe.  Whether you’re bringing fish home from a trip to a healthy, well-managed fishery, or you’re bringing fish home from the supermarket (wild salmon only, please) we think you should give this one…
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Jul 11 2010

Sometimes It’s Simple

One of our followers on Twitter recently chimed in with a question for our friend and Alaska West spey instructor Dec Hogan. The question basically boiled down to asking about “the nuances of casting deeper-bend spey rods”.  You see, Dec likes rods that are relatively slow and that literally bend all the way through the…
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Nov 25 2009

Ask The Experts – Biggest Surprise on the Flats

Don’t get frustrated – our experts had their surprises too. Photo: Bruce Chard For today’s edition of Ask the Experts, we asked our expert panel to think way, way back to the first time the stalked fish on a warm salwater flat. The question was pretty simple – “What was your biggest surprise the first…
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Oct 14 2009

Ask The Experts – Storing Gear In The Off-Season

If you’ve got an off-season, store this stuff well. Photo: Cameron Miller We’ve got a panel of fly fishing experts that periodically answers your questions about anything remotely related to the world of fly fishing. When we asked our expert panel “What are your tops tips for storing gear in the off-season?”, we got some…
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Sep 14 2009

Ask The Experts – Most Common Casting Mistake

Andy Kurkulis is not a novice caster. We’re lucky to have a panel of expert anglers from around the world who have agreed to answer our questions every now and again. In today’s edition of “Ask The Experts”, we focused on casting. Here’s the question we posed to our panel. “What’s the casting mistake that…
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Aug 14 2009

Spey Instruction At Alaska West

Class is in session. Photo: Cameron Miller From June 12th to July 17th of this year, we ran another season of really successful spey instruction programs at Alaska West. Since swinging flies on two-handed rods tends to be the favorite method for targeting our chrome kings, we invite the best of the best in the…
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Jun 30 2009

Dec Hogan – When It All Comes Together

Dec builds his confidence, as if he needed to. Photo: Justin Jackson Dec Hogan visits Alaska West during the first week of our season each year, to deliver spey instruction to our guests and to get in on the hottest, brightest kings of the season. This year, Dec had one of those experiences that, to…
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Jan 28 2009

King Rig Roundup

Kanektok Kings – an embarassment of riches. Over the past couple of months, we’ve posted the two-handed rigs of six guys who spend a lot of time at Alaska West swinging flies for king salmon. There’s a wealth of information, and a wide range of opinions, in these posts. If you’re headed to Alaska West…
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Dec 15 2008

Dec Hogan’s King Rig

Photo: Cameron Miller Dec Hogan has been a legend for years in the Northwest anadromous fishing world.  An amazing guide, angler and instructor, Dec is also the author most recently of A Passion for Steelhead. Dec will be returning to Alaska West this summer from June 13 – 20 to host our spey instruction program…
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