Alaska West

My Nose is Bigger Than Your Nose

January 31, 2012
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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

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Kevin Price’s Trout Rig

January 25, 2012
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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

January 20, 2012
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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

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Jeff Hickman’s Trout Rig

January 17, 2012
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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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Alaskan Sunset

January 16, 2012
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Just another cool picture of the sunset at Alaska West! More Cool Pictures Parent, Child, Trout Here’s Lookin’ At You Wildest Fish Ever

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Alaska Trout Fishing Pictures

January 4, 2012
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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

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Top Salmon Fishing Posts of 2011

January 3, 2012
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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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Top Trout Fishing Posts of 2011

December 28, 2011
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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

December 26, 2011
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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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