Cut Through Pinks for Silvers
Cut through Pinks: A Fish Alaska How-to Story and photo by Scott Haugen Tolerating pink salmon while targeting prized silvers can be a frustrating experience. Here's how to beat the pinks and land more Read More...
Pounding Pinks
Story and photo by Scott Haugen For many anglers around the world, their dream trip consists of nothing more than landing high numbers of salmon in a single day. If this is your Read More...
Fish Seldovia
There is something special about Seldovia. For the first-time visitor, perhaps it is the peaceful, turned-down pace that falls over this friendly community on the ocean. I'd bet the more seasoned Alaska traveler Read More...
Kinesis on the Kanektok
A week on the fly at Alaska West Story by Troy Letherman There is an ethereal quality to a morning submerged in fog. For one, it's almost always unexpected, no matter how attuned Read More...
Wiggle My Spoon
Weighted Casting Spoon by Terry Sheely On those frustrating days when sweetwater fishing is bang-your-head-on-a-tree-trunk tough it’s not so much the factory installed wobble in a weighted casting spoon that will catch trout, Read More...
Advanced Spinner Techniques for Salmon
by JD Richey So, let’s just say you’re heading deep into the Alaska bush on a week-long float trip where you might encounter trout, Dollies, several species of salmon, steelhead, grayling, pike Read More...
Katmai
Welcome to Paradise By Troy Letherman There's nothing that can prepare a person for Katmai. After crossing Cook Inlet and the sentry peaks of its western coastline, the Navajo Chieftain slipping nimbly between Read More...
Fish Anchor Point
story by Troy Letherman "Someone should probably swing a fly by that rock," said good friend and fellow writer Greg Thomas, pointing towards a giant, stream-diverting boulder that shouldered a short but relatively Read More...
Spey and Switch Techniques for Trout
by Fred Telleen I remember watching Sage Fly Rod representative George Cook some years ago, bombing casts across the Kenai. While the casting was impressive, I did not see the need for that Read More...
Southeast Alaska Halibut
The Remote Southeast Experience, Pybus Style Story and photos by Stan Cunningham The black-headed Bonaparte's gulls were circling and diving just 100 yards off the bow. Captain Kevin kept nosing the boat in Read More...
Fishing and Wandering Sitka
Getting Sidetracked in Paradise Story and photos by Andew Cremata Under the canopy of the forest, the morning light was muted and dim. Spruce needles crunched underfoot and scents of fall permeated the Read More...
On The Tal
(What’s a little competition among friends? Fun.) Story by Marcus Weiner A competitive streak runs deep in NFL Hall-of-Famer Larry Csonka, and true to nature, the tone became more serious as the contest Read More...
Remote Alaska Fishing
The Adventures of Lance DeShaw Re•mote [ri-moht] -mot·er, -mot·est, –adjective far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away Story and Photos by Melissa Norris A goal for some anglers is Read More...
Fish Alaska All-Tackle Center Pinning
Story and Photos by Terry W. Sheely The Jig 'n Bobber Technique that nails salmon & steelhead where other anglers can't reach At its techie heart is a precision, free-spinning specialty reel that Read More...
Turn Silvers on with Jigs
We'd found silver salmon nirvana. Hiking several miles up a remote stream in Southeast, we rounded a bend and there it was. A 7-foot waterfall . . . below it a hole the Read More...