2016 brought higher than average water levels to our home river at Alaska West, greatly improving our opportunity to target trout in one of our favorite ways – Stalking them on foot in smaller, intimate, side channels and sight fishing for them! We’ve ran a few posts in the past on some tips for sight…
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side channels
4 Tips for Trout Fishing in Side Channels
We’re lucky at Alaska West to have incredibly varied rainbow trout fishing. We use mice, sculpins, leeches, flesh flies, beads, smolts and more. We use single- and double-handed rods. And we fish lots of different parts of our rivers, from the big main channel to upriver spawning beds to little tiny side channels. Fishing side…
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