In no particular order. Entire rivers to yourself. On your fearless editor’s last trip to Chile West, we first saw another angler on day 9 out of 9. Cantaria beetles. They’re big and crunchy, and trout of all sorts go nutty for them. Bangin’ the banks. It’s action packed and it selects for bigger fish….
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King Salmon
Dean Chinook – It Doesn’t Take Many
Dana Sturn knows anadromous fish like Linsday Lohan knows rehab. Dana started speypages.com. He fishes a lot, and he fishes well. He hosts groups of anglers at BC West when the Dean is all loaded up with Chinook salmon, and that’s no coincidence. Dana wrote up a fine piece of literature that really cuts to…
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Nice Fish, Rick.
We’re really grateful to Rick Covich – his sons Trevor and Tyler are two of the rock stars on our team at Alaska West. Rick got to join his boys for some fishing on the Kanektok this past July, and among a whole boatload of other critters, he landed this beauty of a king. Nice…
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Jeff Hickman’s BC West Trip Report
Jeff Hickman, Deneki Outdoors alumnus and celebrity Oregon fishing guide, visited BC West in early July and got to partake in the real, real good fishing for steelhead and chinooks that’s been happening on the Dean this year (it’s back!). Jeff put together some great words and photos from his trip, just for your reading…
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Fatty.
Hey, what a surprise! It’s Mike Opitz with a big, fat, chrome king salmon! Hmmm, seems like we’ve seen this somewhere before… More Pictures of Fish Bonefish Hero Shot, Atypical Dean River Steelhead Coolest Hero Shot Ever
True Love.
Dana Sturn falls in love on the Dean. More Fish from the Dean River Kerry Connects Jerry Arnold and Joy Brian Niska Feels It Too
One of the Coolest Hero Shots Ever
A really great part of the scene during king season at Alaska West is that super folks with the same passion come together at the same time for a special type of fun on the river. So when a buddy (even if it happens to be guide Jim Palmersheim, who got handed a rod for…
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Fun in Week 1
Pardon the back-t0-back king salmon hero shots. We love fishing for kings and we’re catching them at two lodges now, so we just had to share. Brian Gambini came to Alaska West during the first week of our season this year with Ken Morrish from Flywater Travel. They wanted to chase some big, hot, bright…
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Nice Fish, Brian.
Dean River Chinook Salmon are pretty awesome critters. At BC West we catch them mostly in the bottom mile and a half of river, so they’re hot and bright, and just like their steelhead cousins, they’re as powerful as they come. We hook quite a few of them and we land lots of smaller ones,…
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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