Wow, it’s hard to believe it, but our setup crew will be on site at Alaska West in 3 months. Silvers and kings and rainbow and dollies and good, good times are all right around the corner. We still have some prime weeks with availability for 2012, but this is the time of year that…
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Rainbow Trout
Michael White’s Trout Switch Rig
Michael White is one heck of an angler and he’s our buddy too. Here’s the rig that he uses to chase Alaskan rainbow trout his favorite way – with two hands! There’s a heck of a lot of information in this one – read on. The Summary G.Loomis Roaring River GLX 11′ 5 weight switch rod…
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Rainbow Trout Rig Roundup
We’ve added quite a few expert rainbow trout rigs to our blog over the past couple of months, so we figured it was time to round ’em up. Our expert rig roundups are some of the most popular pages on our web site. Basically, we give you a handy way to look through the approaches…
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Kevin Price’s Trout Rig
And once again you get to learn about how the experts rig themselves to fish for trout in Alaska! Today’s rig is a little different from your more common “target and land giant rainbows in big water” setup, and it comes courtesy of Kevin Price. Kevin is one of the finer guides in Northern California,…
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Nice Fish, Kellsey
Kellsey Perkins runs the back office at Deneki Outdoors. Last summer on a trip to Alaska West, she learned that our trout are salmon-sized. Nice fish, Kellsey. More on Rainbow Trout at Alaska West No-Nonsense Intro to Our Trout Top Trout Fishing Posts of 2011 Our Trout Spey Program
Jeff Hickman’s Trout Rig
Jeff Hickman, as you probably know by now, is a long-time veteran of fishing in the Northwest. He’s spent a whole bunch of years guiding at Alaska West, and he knows his way around Oregon pretty good too. Oh yeah, the Ross and Idylwilde Pro Staffs somehow let him in the door. Want to know…
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Alaska Trout Fishing Pictures
Just a few more pictures of trout fishing in Alaska. No hero shots this time around, though! More on Rainbow Trout All Our Posts on Trout Fishing 5 Ways to Catch More Rainbow Trout Spey Fishing for Trout: Gear
Top Trout Fishing Posts of 2011
Last week we started our end-of-the-year series on our top posts of 2011 with a rundown of the most popular posts about bonefishing on our blog. Today we continue with the posts about trout fishing that you folks read the most. Before we start with the list, we should point out that we added an…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Bead Rig
In the past couple of weeks we’ve learned from J.E.B. Hall about how he rigs up and chases rainbow trout in Alaska with mouse patterns and sculpin patterns. Today we wrap up our mini-series on JEB’s trout rigs as he tells us about how he uses beads to imitate salmon eggs. Once again, it’s built…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig
Last week you got to soak up some Alaska mousing knowledge from JEB Hall, courtesy of our expert rig post on how he approaches mousing at Alaska West. Today, our JEB trout series continues, with The Goods on how JEB fishes sculpin patterns. Read on! The Summary Sage 690-4 One Sage 4250 Reel Scientific Anglers…
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