Mid-season float…

Our annual July float trip is in the books and it was grins all around. We ate like kings, swung spey and switch rods for 2 days and enjoyed stretching out in B’s new camper. The fishing was tough with abnormally high water from glacier melt-off. Fortunately, the dollies made up for the absence of trout.
The fishing felt like fall [...]

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The Best Post Ever… ‘Yokanga, Notes From’

I am headed for an adventure myself this weekend of which I will post next week. Until then, here is a snippet from RP’s latest and to-date the greatest blog post ever. Read the full post below:
…I got off my rock and gave chase as quickly as I could, which was not quick. The fish was [...]

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Ponoi Pull…

Check out Ryan P’s latest posts fishing for Atlantic Salmon bankside on the Ponoi, Kola Peninsula:
Amid a stark, powerful riverscape, we casted and caught many fresh summer run Ponoi Atlantic salmon. After catching and releasing two small bright fish on consecutive casts, I made a third cast that swung a double-hooked Cascade through the same [...]

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Socked in…

 

The re-opener was an epic display of old-time Alaska. Thousands of black-gray backs of schooled salmon in packs of 30 to 50 as far as the next bend. Fortunately, there were still trout to be had via the properly waked dry in-between the intermittent upstream rushes of first run sockeye.

The salmon run is the earliest and by [...]

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Wait for it…

Every year, the culmination leading up to the yearly trout re-opener is a flashback to my childhood and its ’are we there yet’ days of family fishing trips. My family went fishing every year for as far back as I can remember. Fittingly, my July birthday was celebrated each year in either a tent or camper next to the [...]

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Urban Kings

With another small creek spring season under our wading belts our gears shift from miniatures to monsters. The jump from 5-12″ creek trout to Alaskan king salmon sounds like a rediculous transition but this is where D and I found ourselves last Friday with heavier spey rods in hand.

This local flow sits in the heart of downtown Anchorage and gets [...]

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Mini-May

The month of May for many Alaska fly-fishers is a difficult one. The main local flows are closed due to the spring rainbow trout spawn. Patiently waiting for 6 months of winter to pass takes it toll on normal folk. Just think of the effect that this forced hibernation has on obsessed fly-fishers. Sure, we tie flies and re-watch fly-fishing and [...]

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Fresh Start…

It’s spring in Alaska. Just like that, the snow is gone on the lowlands. As seasons go, spring and fall are short windows that disappear as soon as they reveal their offerings. This spring however has started off early and remarkably well. The multiple temps in the 60’s match last summer’s warmest few days.
As with [...]

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New Season

Early Spring Spey.
Here is a re-post from last spring to get us in the swing of things…
The dreaming days are nearly over. The long grip of winter is showing signs of breaking. Rivers are starting to see light. Drop by drop, the ice and snow melt to provide more room for trout and later the returning salmon. The trout [...]

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Fishing Break…

Lucky long-time friend RP has teamed up with Felt Soul Media to produce an epic fly fishing film shot exclusively in Kamchatka. Check-out the preview which recently won The Drake’s 5 min FF Film Contest:
http://thebigpull.wordpress.com/
Fall fishing in Alaska….

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