The silver salmon fishing is as good as ever here at Alaska West and Rapids Camp Lodge, and not only are we catching a lot of silvers this year, we’re also catching a lot of bigger fish. That has our anglers are asking, “how big is that hog?”, which has us scratching our heads.. “Yeah, exactly how…
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Holey Rocks
Thanks to long time Deneki General Manager, Mike Sanders, for a great write up on an Alaska West tradition that surprisingly, we’ve never ran a post about.. Until today! Holey Rocks Over the years at Alaska West, we’ve found a lot of strange and interesting things along the banks of the Kanektok River. The most valued…
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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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A Fly in the Air Catches No Fish.
Three years ago we ran a post in which some expert anglers weighed in on the most common casting mistake made by novice anglers. One of the experts offered such a gem that we figured it deserved its own post. Besides, three years ago our readership pretty much consisted of your editor’s mom and a…
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A Story About Stripping
Ha, fooled you! Sorry, it’s a fishing story – about when to strip your fly when you’re bonefishing. Mike Sanders, Deneki GM, wrote up some wisdom passed on by Josie Sands at Andros South. We think you’re gonna like it. To Strip or Not to Strip It’s serene and beautiful up top no doubt, but…
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Sea Lice
For anglers who like chasing salmon and steelhead, sea lice are a topic of great interest for a couple of reasons. Today Mike Sanders, our General Manager at Deneki Outdoors, gives us the rundown! What Are Sea Lice? Sea Lice are planktonic (adj. – of or relating to plankton) fish parasites that live in sea…
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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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Rainbow Trout Lies
I live in the couch water. Photo: Mike Racine We asked our Deneki Expert Panel a question a little while back about trout lies – no, not the tall tales that trout spin about the size of the anglers who almost caught them, the places in the river where trout like to live. A later…
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