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Jan 28 2009

King Rig Roundup

Kanektok Kings – an embarassment of riches.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve posted the two-handed rigs of six guys who spend a lot of time at Alaska West swinging flies for king salmon. There’s a wealth of information, and a wide range of opinions, in these posts.

If you’re headed to Alaska West this summer, or if you like spey fishing, or king salmon, or steelhead, you should have a look at how the best in the business set themselves up when they swing flies on two-handed rods in pursuit of big chrome anadromous fish.

Charles St. Pierre
Michael White
Brian Niska
Dec Hogan
George Cook, and his quiver here, and more from George here
Ed Ward
Tom Larimer
Jeff Hickman
Whitney Gould

If you’d like to learn more about spey fishing for kings, why not join these guys on the Kanektok River for one of our spey instruction weeks? Contact the experts to learn more.

Spey Fish With The Experts

More on Spey Rigging
Steelhead Rig Roundup
5 Flies for Kings on the Kanektok
Maxima Ultragreen – Why We Like It
Non-Slip Mono Loop
Sage 8134-4 Z-Axis

Filed Under: Alaska West, Fish, Gear Tagged With: Brian Niska, Charles St. Pierre, Dec Hogan, Ed Ward, expert rigs, George Cook, Kanektok River, King Salmon, Michael White, roundup, Spey, Tom Larimer

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  1. Carl Blackledge says

    September 24, 2020 at 8:27 am

    2009? that’s a joke, everybody had fish in 2009…tell us about 2019?

  2. Bryan Burke says

    October 5, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    Hi Carl,

    Thank you very much for being in touch, we had a great 2019 season at Alaska West. Here’s a link to some of our lady anglers who joined us during our King run, https://deneki.com/2019/08/queens-who-play-kings/.

    Are you interested in a trip? Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.

    Our best,
    The Deneki Team

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