silver salmon

What We Catch at Alaska West

March 11, 2013

At Alaska West our fishery is not only incredibly productive – it’s got so much variety you couldn’t hope to sample it all in one trip. Here’s a handy guide to the species we catch at Alaska West, in very rough order of when you might catch them, except for the oddballs thrown in at [...]

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4 Ways to Fish Dry Flies in Alaska

January 9, 2013

Everybody loves fishing dry flies. There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program. Here are 4 ways [...]

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Rainbows and Silvers, Living Together

January 4, 2013

A recent conversation with a very experienced Alaska booking agent reminded us of a really unique aspect of our fishery at Alaska West that we sometimes take for granted – we have world class fishing for silver salmon and rainbow trout, at the same time, on the same stretch of river. Silvers and Rainbows – [...]

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Now’s the Time to Book Your 2013 Alaska Trip

December 8, 2012

We’re not sure if it’s the cold weather or the free-flowing hot buttered rum, but during the month of December a lot of our weeks at Alaska West fill up. If you’re thinking about fishing in Alaska in 2013, now is a great time to get in touch and get that trip on the books. [...]

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Late August Fishing in Alaska

October 20, 2012

Summer is short in Western Alaska – our season at Alaska West ends at the end of August. Here’s the quick story of what it’s like at the end of our season, told in pictures and captions. More on August at Alaska West 5 Reasons We Love the Late Season When to Go Trout Fishing [...]

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Pacific Salmon Feeding in Fresh Water?

September 21, 2012

Pacific salmon don’t feed in fresh water – everybody knows that, right? Wrong. Brian Morrison, fisheries biologist and author of several recent posts on fish lifecycles in Western Alaska, is back today to tell us about some recent research findings that prove conventional wisdom wrong. Read on. Salmon Feeding in Fresh Water? Many anglers have [...]

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Coho Salmon Lifecycles

September 7, 2012

Over the last couple of months we’ve run a couple of really well-received posts from Alaska West guest and fisheries biologist Brian Morrison – on the lifecycles of rainbow trout in Western Alaska, and chinook salmon everywhere. Today we wrap up the mini-series with some facts from Brian on another favorite of ours, the coho [...]

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Why Silver Salmon Winner

July 16, 2012

We’ve run quite a few contests on our web site, and we always get a bunch of quality entries. In our posts announcing who won, we often say something like “it was really hard to pick the winner”. This contest was different. We got a bunch of quality entries – but Doug Jett ran away [...]

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Why Silver Salmon?

July 5, 2012

We love fishing for silver salmon. We know a lot of you do too, and we want to hear from you! You might even win a free t-shirt… Why fish for silver salmon? Leave a comment on this page letting us know why you like fishing for silver salmon. On Saturday, July 14th we’ll pick [...]

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