Fresh Salmon Processing
How to process fresh salmon Processing your fresh salmon at the end of the day can be a daunting task, especially if you have a lot of other things to do. However, it Read More...
Trailer Lights Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting your boat trailer lights Trailer lights giving you trouble? May is a wonderful time in Alaska. Spring chases winter up to the mountain peaks, rivers begin to rise as the long days Read More...
How To Get More Bites When Fishing: Caught in the Change Up
Adapting to changing conditions sometimes requires a change in your bead color or size. However, it isn't always the bead color or size that is the answer to changing conditions. © Nick Read More...
Silver Lining: How To Avoid Pinks when Targeting Coho
© Nigel Fox, Alaska Drift Away Fishing by Nigel Fox This summer marks another pink year on the Kenai River, which means a couple million pink salmon will return to spawn Read More...
Swinging Streamers
Story & Photos by Nicholas Ohlrich Besides watching a bow come up and slurp down a perfectly presented dry fly, feeling the explosion of a pink-sided chrome freight train destroying a streamer on Read More...
Being Adaptive to Change
by Nigel Fox There is nothing more frustrating than a blown-out river when you are in the peak of the fishing season. You will go weeks with optimal water conditions and then bam, Read More...
Alaska Drift Away Fishing
Find articles and blogs by the pros at Alaska Drift Away Fishing below!
Tips for a Drag Free Drift
Story & Photos by Nick Ohlrich There are many factors that contribute to a strong formula for consistently catching your desired species. The ability to run a drag free drift while targeting Kenai Read More...
The Little Big Things: Up Your Trout Game
This 35.5-inch rainbow trout was caught after spotting a new school of salmon on the fish finder. © Alaska Drift Away Fishing Story & Photos by Jeremy Anderson The sun is Read More...
Kenai River Trout
Kenai River rainbows are renowned the world over, and for good reason, as these hefty trout suggest. Story and Photos by Nick Ohlrich From the opener on June 11 through late Read More...
Pavlov’s Trout
Story & Photos By Nick Ohlrich Ivan Pavlov was a psychologist in the late 1800s and was the guy that would ring a bell just before he fed his dogs. When the dogs Read More...
Running Rivers
Story & Photo By Nick Ohlrich As summer draws near and rivers begin to swell into their summer size, a quick buffing-up on the practice of reading water probably can’t hurt. I spend the majority Read More...
Fish Finder, Friend or Foe?
A fish finder is an instrument used to locate fish underwater by detecting reflected pulses of sound energy. Today’s standards use a graphical display to locate schools of fish, temperature, debris and the Read More...
Early-Season Fishing on the Kenai Peninsula
Story & Photos by Nick Olrich Early-season fishing on the Kenai Penninsula offers a variety of options for anglers that are itching to get the open-water season underway. The top three options that Read More...
Boat Maintenance
Story & Photos by Jeremy Anderson Taking care of your boat is a very important part of recreating on the water, keeping you safe, having fun and making your day on the water stress-free. If Read More...