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By Darryl Quidort Of the various fish I’ve caught with a fly rod, grayling are my favorite. It’s not the difficulty of the endeavor, the fishing skill required or the great fighting ability Read More...
Heavily Palmered Flies & the Skate By G.B. Barnard IV The Arctic grayling (Thymallus Arcticus (Pallus)) is a marvelous fish. While the majority of Alaska predators key themselves directly around the nutritious annual Read More...
Arctic Icons By E. Donnall Thomas Jr. Grayling have probably saved more trips than any other fish in Alaska. Let me count the ways… For two straight days, we’d had plenty to worry Read More...
By Matt Hage By the end of June, every road-accessible waterway in Alaska that holds even a rumor of a king salmon is buried under a tangled web of 60-pound test and Read More...
By Shann Paul Jones “It doesn’t matter if you believe in eating every fish that you catch or releasing all of them; I think we can all agree that wanton waste is a Read More...
Fairbanks Arctic char are available throughout the Alaska angling season (including being a primary ice-fishing quarry for these area anglers. Primarily a stillwater fish, Arctic char will be found in different parts of Read More...
Rainbow Trout One of Alaska (and the world’s) most popular gamefish, the rainbow trout is not indigenous to the Tanana or Yukon drainages, but the species has been successfully stocked in more than Read More...
King Salmon The least abundant of the five species of North America’s Pacific salmon—albeit also the largest—the Chinook salmon range south from near Point Hope just north of Kotzebue Sound to the Islands Read More...
Lake Trout Lake trout, the largest of the char, are also Alaska’s largest resident freshwater fish, routinely reaching weights beyond 20 pounds. They are extremely opportunistic predators, preying on almost any obtainable food Read More...
Grayling Without a doubt, the most distinctive characteristic of Arctic grayling is the large, sail-shaped dorsal fin that has come to signify the fish for so many. If the fish has another signature Read More...
by Terry Sheely “We’ve got some of the best red and silver fisheries anywhere, and the trout fishing is outstanding. Once people get past missing the kings they’ll discover that this river is Read More...
Fishing the Big Three Story and photos by Dennis Musgraves Beginning in late October sunlight starts fading daily, temperatures eventually drop to double-digit negatives and water surfaces become locked up harder than asphalt. Read More...
by Terry W. Sheely In the gray half-light and mist that passes for daylight this morning along the docks in Juneau, two guys in orange Grunden bibs are throwing a small mountain of Read More...
Story & Photo by Marcus Weiner There’s a contingent of dedicated anglers who prefer remote float trips to the fanfare of lodge travel, the chaos of road-system fisheries or the battle with the Read More...
Togiak River Lodge © Marcus Weiner Togiak River Lodge Story by Marcus Weiner King and silver salmon fishing are the primary draws on the Togiak The sharp knife lays open the Read More...
