Winter Chores for the Angler By Scott Haugen While the open-water fishing season might be over that doesn’t mean there’s nothing for anglers to do. Always with an eye towards next spring, when breakup portends the arrival of the season’s first fish, it’s time to make sure everything is prepared just right for those first […]
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Alaska Fishing Gear Blog
Fish Alaska magazine contributors love gear and here you can learn about rain gear, sonar systems, fly-tying materials, and more.
How to Properly Store your Boat It is a sad day. The ocean is rough, the rivers are dropping fast, the banks are iced over and the snow is falling. For all but the insanely hardcore Alaska angler, it
Team CC in Wasilla has been awarded the coveted Suzuki Super Service Award for 2013. Fish Alaska is pleased to share this information about their advertising customer. The award is only given to those
Blog Post by Troy Letherman Clearly an essential piece of equipment for Alaska anglers (I’ve wet-waded twice, on purpose, in fifteen years of fishing in our great, but chilly, state), waders are also one of a handful of items on your list of angling accoutrement that need to be repaired and/or replaced frequently. A fly […]
I don’t know how many stages of gear-mongering I’ve passed through, but the answer is almost certainly more than a few. At times I’ve gathered equipment like a conquistador pillaging
Blog Post by Troy Letherman In the 1970s, when we first started halibut fishing off the Deep Creek coast of Cook Inlet, we used herring for bait on J hooks—hooks you had to be on all the time and re
This blog post comes to us from Fish Alaska contributing editor and Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead guide JD Richey, who can be reached through his website. Without exception, when the weather is at its absolute snottiest, I’ll get a call from my pop, who is a self proclaimed “Indoor Enthusiast,” that starts something like […]