If you’ve never been fishing at Alaska West, and have asked, “when is the best time to fish at Alaska West?”, It’s July. The days are warmer, the river conditions are usually the best, and approximately 18 hours of daylight make for a prime week of fishing at Alaska West Lodge. July can be the…
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2021 Grand Slam Dates at Alaska West Lodge
As of today spots for the 2021 season at Alaska West are very limited, but we do have some prime spots in our Grand Slam weeks listed below. For many years our first silver of the season has been caught between the 12th and 18th of July so we can legitimately say our Kanektok Grand…
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The Kanektok Slam – Congrats Steve!
A while back, we told you about our new friends and Deneki guests, Rob Johnson and Jeremy Libby, who nabbed the first two Alaskan Grand Slams of our 2018 season on consecutive days alongside Alaska West guide, Caleb Hanna. In case you’re unaware, that’s all five species of Pacific salmon, all caught on a fly,…
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Slam Season!
One of our favorite things about the middle of our season at Alaska West is the very real possibility to nab the Alaskan Grand Slam; landing all five species of Pacific salmon, all on a fly, all within the same fishing day.. There aren’t many rivers in the world where you can do that! With…
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Top 5 Reasons to Fish Alaska in July
Coming off one the coldest holiday seasons on record has us thinking about summer. We’re sure we’re not the only ones.. In fact, we’re well into our booking season for the summer of 2018. We know many of you are ahead of the game and already planning your summer fishing trip too. Most of our…
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Congrats, Steve!
Today we take a day to celebrate our good friend and long time Alaska West guest, Steve Ward. Steve and several other members of the Ward family joined us for a week on the Kanektok this year, marking his twentieth consecutive year fishing with us. Wow. But that’s not all.. On the first day of…
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Weekly Fish Story – The Unintentional Grand Slam
We’re back with another edition of our ‘Weekly Fish Stories‘ series of posts where our guides and guests share their first hand experience of a notable moment on the water – A quick snapshot of awesomeness if you will.. Today’s weekly fish story comes from Alaska West guide, Jim Palmersheim, on a special day spent…
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“Kanektok Slam” – A Story from Alaska West
Today we present to you, a blast from the past, with an eloquently written story of an epic day on the Kanektok River dating all the way back to 1996, recently sent to us by Alaska West guest, Ridr Knowlton. If you’ve ever spent time on the Kanektok, chased a grand slam, or just simply like…
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Grand Salami
We want to extend big Kudos to Alaska West guest Kasey Halcro. Kasey started his morning yesterday planning to target silver salmon early in the morning and hoping to find the clowned up dolly varden of his dreams in the afternoon. Pretty typical day at Alaska West in August. What Kasey did not expect is that…
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Alaska T Shirt Winner
Wow. When we announced our “complete this sentence” contest for a free Alaska Grand Slam t-shirt, we never would have guessed that we’d get 86 responses. Thanks so much to everyone who participated. It was really, really hard to pick a winner. In the end we had to go with Abe Sorom, who have us…
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