Scott Baker-McGarva, our head guide at BC West on the Dean River, checks in today with more tips for your anadromous angling pleasure. Our topic? The Rodney Dangerfield of sinktips – the intermediate. Intermediate Tips and You If there is an unused tip in your sink-tip wallet, my money would say it’s an intermediate one. You…
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Silver Salmon
How to Catch Silver Salmon
As you can tell by the number of guests posts on our blog, we often ask our friends in and around the industry for ideas and content that we can post. A recent conversation with Eric Neufeld, Alaska West alumnus and current Simms and Idylwilde rep for the Northwest, was a great reminder that you…
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The Best Silver Salmon Fishing in the World
If you read our blog or newsletter regularly, you know that we don’t tend to throw out outlandish claims too often. Yes, mixed with our steady stream of tips, reviews, and guest posts we’ll regularly make a pitch for our lodges – and we appreciate you putting up with that. But we try to be…
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Bruce Chard’s Pollywog Rig for Silvers
Bruce Chard is best known as one of the elite guides in the Florida Keys, and as a fly fishing instructor. He’s actually a really well-rounded angler who fishes all over the world. Bruce loves fishing for silver salmon at Alaska West. In fact, he’s hosting a group this summer and you can drop us…
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Grillos’ Quick Silver Popper
Background Andrew Grillos is an Alaska West alumnus, an Idylwilde Signature Tier, a Scott Fly Rods Pro Staffer, a Simms Guide Ambassador…and a guide based out of Seattle (you can contact him here). Silver salmon at Alaska West are incredibly plentiful and ridiculously aggressive, and you can catch them on all kinds of stuff. Andrew…
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My Nose is Bigger Than Your Nose
Don’t worry though – I’m not too self-conscious about it. More on Silver Salmon Intro to Silver Insanity at Alaska West 5 Reasons to Chase Them 6 Ways to Catch More
Top Salmon Fishing Posts of 2011
Our end-of-the-year ‘top posts’ series marches on. We’ve already given you our top bonefishing posts and our top trout fishing posts, and today it’s all about salmon. Our Most Popular Salmon Fishing Posts of 2011 Jeff Hickman’s King Rig. All the detail on how Jeff rigs up to chase king salmon on two handed rods….
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Cool Coho Composition
We like hero shots as much as the next guy, but honestly we see so many of them that they all start to run together. That’s why we love hero shots that have something unique to offer, like this super cool backlit affair courtesy of our kick-butt photo crew at Alaska West! More on Silver…
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Nice Vertical.
True to form, another silver salmon launches itself skyward. More on Silver Salmon 5 Reasons to Chase Silver Salmon 6 Ways to Catch More Trevor Covich’s Silver Rig
When to Go Fishing in Alaska
Judging by the number of people we’re hearing from right now who are planning their fishing trips to Alaska for next summer, a lot of you are planning your fishing trips to Alaska for next summer. Yep, it’s happening right now, and we’re proud of you for planning ahead! We’re always looking to provide you…
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