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Jul 01 2020

Deneki Chronicles: Ed Ward’s King Rig

This post is one of our favorites from 2009 about one of our favorite people, Ed Ward and his arsenal for striking kings. This is the first picture ever taken of Ed when he wasn’t casting, or holding a chrome anadromous fish. Photo: Cameron Miller Ed Ward has been called many things.  ‘Jedi knight’, ‘Zen…
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Aug 09 2016

Whitney Gould’s Silver Swinging Rig

Silver salmon close up.

When it comes to fly fishing for silvers, it’s hard to argue against the effectiveness of stripping ridiculously colored streamers with a single handed 8-9 weight fly rod. However, one of our favorite things about silver season is that we’re fortunate to be able to target fish using a whole bunch of different methods, thus…
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May 06 2016

Eric Robbin’s Nymphing Rig

Nymphing rig for rainbow trout.

Last week, we presented you a clever way to rig up when digging deep for western Alaska rainbows shown to us by Alaska West guide Eric Robbins (in case you missed it, check it out here!). In fact, we liked it so much that we asked him to give us all the nitty gritty details of…
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Apr 22 2016

Stuart Foxall’s King Rig

Spey fishing for king salmon at Alaska West.

If you’re a regular to our humble little blog, odds are you’ve heard the name Stuart Foxall before. Stu is a professional fly designer for Aqua Flies as well as part of Loop Tackle’s development team. You could say he knows a thing or two about swinging flies for big, bright, anadramous fish. In fact,…
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Aug 13 2015

Jordan Sly’s ‘Wake and Eggs’ Rig

Fly fishing for dolly varden at Alaska West

A couple weeks ago, Alaska West operation’s manager, Jordan Sly, gave us a great post on the life history of one of the most underrated fish in our river, the dolly varden. In case you missed it, make sure to check it out, here! Today, Jordan is back with another edition of our ‘expert rig‘…
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Nov 06 2014

Grant Turner’s Alaskan Steelhead Rig

Grant Turner with Steelhead

We know many of you enjoy our expert rig series of posts, where we highlight every detail of the setups used by the experts chasing fish in our neck of the woods. It’s been a while since we’ve put out an expert rig, so we reached out to Alaska West guide, Grant Turner for the…
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Mar 19 2014

Adam Jackson’s King Rigs

Adam Jackson's King Rigs

Adam Jackson is a long-time guide at Rapids Camp Lodge, our fly-out operation on the Naknek River in Alaska.  Want to know how Adam rigs up when he’s chasing the biggest and baddest of the salmon species?  Read on! Make sure you read through the Commentary section – there’s a lot of meat in there….
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Feb 18 2014

Dan Herrig’s Halibut Rig

Halibut on Fly Rod

Fly fishing for halibut?  Really? Yep, at Rapids Camp Lodge we have access to some really unusual fisheries, including spots where we consistently catch halibut on fly rods.  Here’s how our head guide Dan Herrig rigs up when he’s chasing giant flatfish. The Summary Sage 1480 Xi3 – an 8 foot 14 weight Galvan T-14…
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Jan 14 2014

Hollis Bennett’s Camera Rig

Hollis Bennett Camera Gear

A few weeks ago, we had the good fortune of hosting photographer Hollis Bennett at Andros South. Hollis spent the week on the flats with us to capture our fishery via photo and video. Aware of his resume, we were thrilled when he agreed to shoot some content for us! Hollis has been a professional…
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Jan 06 2014

Kyle Shea’s King Rig

King Rig - Kyle Shea

As a guide at Alaska West, Kyle Shea gets to swing flies for king salmon in during his downtime.  Here’s his rig of choice! The Summary Echo King 9130-4 Ross CLA # 7 Airflo Skagit Compact 660 The Detail 250 yards of 30 lb. Dacron backing, wrapped 4-5 times around the spool and tied with…
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