Flesh Flies

Michael White’s Flesh Rig

March 13, 2012
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Last week you got to hear about how Michael White chases rainbow trout at Alaska West with a switch rod.  Today we bring you the rig he uses to imitate everyone’s favorite food source – nasty, decomposing chunks of salmon flesh! The Summary Sage 691-4 ONE Ross Evolution LT #3 Rio Coldwater Clouser Line, 6 [...]

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Rainbow Trout Flies – 5 Favorites for Alaska

July 18, 2011
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As we mentioned on Friday, it’s trout time at Alaska West.  Late July trout fishing rocks! If you’re headed to Alaska West to chase our legendary leopard rainbows, here are 5 flies that we think you should bring along.  Idylwilde makes some pretty awesome trout flies – these are all available from your local Idylwilde [...]

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5 Ways to Catch More Rainbow Trout

May 9, 2011
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Catching rainbow trout at Alaska West is not all that difficult – in fact it’s easy to catch ‘some’.  That being said, great anglers catch more, and great anglers catch the bigger ones.  Here are 5 ways you can make yourself into a ‘greater’ trout angler in our part of the world. Mend less.  Our [...]

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Top Trout Fishing Posts of 2010

December 16, 2010
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We’re nearing the end of 2010, so as dutiful members of the media we figured it was time to run a series of posts looking back on some highlights of the year.  Since it’s really all about the fish, we decided to group these little roundups by type of finned friend. The formula is pretty [...]

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Flesh Flies and Snags

November 4, 2010
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Yet another reason why you should fish your flesh fly around snags when you’re targeting rainbow trout in Western Alaska – illustrated in one simple photo. See the snag?  See the dead salmon on the snag?  See why rainbow trout near that snag might be looking for salmon flesh? Thought so. More on Rainbow Trout [...]

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Get It Down!

October 4, 2010
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We’ve been beating the drum lately about the fact that flies that imitate salmon parts work really well when targeting rainbow trout in Western Alaska.  We’ve also mentioned that dead drifts aren’t that important, but getting your fly down is. In the process of going through the 1,273,489 pictures from our summer season at Alaska [...]

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Why We Like Flesh Flies

September 22, 2010
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We fish a lot of flesh flies for rainbows at Alaska West.  Here are 5 reasons why. There’s always a flesh hatch. Our rivers get jammed with salmon biomass every summer, and when the salmon die, their flesh winds up in the river.  It sticks around for a long time.  Flesh hangs up on snags [...]

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Trout Food: Flesh Fly

January 22, 2010
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Last week we started our series on Alaskan trout foods with some information on salmon flesh.  Today we’re covering a simple, effective fly pattern that’s used to imitate salmon flesh – your basic ‘Flesh Fly’. Our recipe and photos are courtesy of Matt Hynes, senior guide at Alaska West and recent addition to our management [...]

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Secrets of the Flesh Fly

May 4, 2009

Sometimes all it takes is a little flesh. Photo: Ramsey Smith Trout that live in the lower sections of rivers like the Kanektok and the Arolik in Western Alaska get a lot of their calories from salmon flesh.  That means that at Alaska West we spend a lot of time tying and fishing patterns that [...]

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