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The Gear We Love This Month: Heat Holders
A pair of socks with the name “heat holders” aroused my interest when I received them with an invitation to try them out. Now cold feet (and cold hands) are my nemeses in Read More...
Icefishing Shelters
Arguably, ice fishing in Alaska has a few reasons why it is nowhere near as popular when compared to the open water season. Two of which are cold freezing temperatures and bitter arctic Read More...
Butler in a Boat
I am what you would call a low-impact fisherman, low-impact in the same sense that walking is a low-impact exercise and a recliner is a low-impact way to play football. I’m getting old…and Read More...
The Gear We Love This Month: Gear Essentials for 2014
Each year at Fish Alaska magazine, we make our way through piles of gear, testing, re-testing and winnowing down the competition until we can tell you with confidence the products that are going Read More...
Adventures of Mac Lightfoot: The Queen of Kings
When you do something once, especially in fishing, luck is readily wheeled-out as the culprit. That one day where you caught the biggest trout or caught the most sockeye or landed silvers when Read More...
How to Catch Sockeye, Alaskan-Style
Blog Post by Marcus Weiner Red salmon, aka sockeye, are among the most delicious gamefish in Alaska. The red, firm flesh can be prepared countless ways, and any and all end with a Read More...
Forced Marches – The Adventures of Mac Lightfoot
This last forced march had Mac and Wally wondering if they had joined the army. Only in this case, they were unarmed. Wally and Mac have spent a lot of time angling together. Read More...
Spicy Pumpkin and Shrimp Soup
This delicious soup represents the quintessential fall comfort food, with a little help from a locally-harvested pumpkin. I created this soup at Marcus’ house when it was time to pull pumpkins from his Read More...
Boat Storage
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 Read More...
What to Look For in Late Fall Trout Flies
For Alaska’s rainbow trout anglers, who enjoy the luxury of fishing for a species that’s actually interested in eating, the task is to figure out what the prevalent food source is for the Read More...
Team CC Award
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 Read More...
What to Look for in Waders
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 Read More...
Invasive Species in Alaska
Warning against the potential spread of Invasive Species in Alaska Blog Post by Troy Letherman Some years after seeing an ADF&G sign warning against the potential spread of Atlantic salmon within a Kodiak Read More...
Gear Mongering
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 three-quarters of Central Read More...
Cutthroat Nation
Blog Post by Troy Letherman The first true trout documented in the United States were cutthroat. They were caught by Silas Goodrich on June 13, 1805, and recorded for posterity in the journal Read More...