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I'm gonna be hitting the naknek once again....planning on the 28 of august through the 3 or september. I am going to a do it yourself lodge...
first day or two guided and then u get a boat and gas as ...

How shallow a big trout will hold if there is food to be had. I saw This 28" rainbow was feeding on a salmon carcass in less that a foot of water then got upstream of hi and swung a flesh fly in ...

Not one comes to mind for myself

However i have a couple adopted brothers who turn 7 in may. So i if anything i'll say watching them catch thier first fish will be my goal! Very Happy

not the best guy as i've only owned one vehicle!

Still i love my 79 chev k-10 shortbed. Especially since i put the new engine in, 400 plus in torque and hp, no ones beating me to the river :twisted ...

Yeah it's pretty cool to borrow flies from across the country.

I fish for steelhead a lot and use all types of flies some of west coast origin and some of GL origin. Alaska is interesting in the fa ...

Like many others here i use both techniques for steel but i much prefer swinging that dead drifting. Something about the violent take just get my juices flowing. That being said I still enjoy drifting ...

I have a friend from kodiak who is now working for the park service in dry tortugas national park in florida and invited me down. Anyone have experience fly fishing this area?

I specifically would ...

as long as i have been on this site i have never made a video

However in late september i am traveling to my favorite river for a week of killer trout fishing and would like to make a video for the ...

I've been tying many of my larger dry flies especially mouse patterns for years for the same reasons you mentioned.

Gonna start hitting the local rivers hard for sockeye salmon. they are starting to trickle in Very Happy

Thanks for the kind words jeremy

An 8 weight would be an excellent choice for sockeye especially on the mainstem kenai and it would be a good choice for trout on the mainstem kenai.

That being said if you can only afford one rod ...

What does everyone have planned for 09 at this point?

I plan on hitting the naknek in bristol bay for big rainbows in late september and the Karluk on Kodiak for steelhead in october.

The Naknek river in bristol bay. It's a very big river with tons of area to explore and lots of room so crowding is not a big deal. Great fly fishing for all 5 species of Salmon, Grayling and char. Th ...

ak grayling,

First off the best way to find good spots is too do some exploring by yourself or with someone who knows the river. The people who fish the river that time of year including myself are ...

caddis hatches on the amercan river in bristol bay alaska.

Doesn't happen often but when it does oppurtunities for 20 to 30 inch rainbows and char on small dries are plentiful.

I don't know about the former but i've been pegging beads for years for two reasons

It's the most effective way to catch trout feeding on salmon eggs

It eliminated gut hooking which can happen w ...

For most of my trout fishing i use SA mastery series

for Spey fishing for trout on big rivers i like using a rio skagit head with some sort of slick mono running line and 10 or so feet of t-14 or ...

Well first off i've been out of high school since 04. I'm actually done with the guiding thing, got a job at the airport here and am starting to work on my pilots license on the side the ultimate goal ...

I'm gonna head to the naknek river in september hopefully. I know a lot of members here have talked about fishing alaska and i thought it would be cool if some wanted to get together.

Here is the j ...

What does everyone have planned for 08 in terms of multi day fishing trips.

I'm heading down to the karluk again for steel in october and maybe the naknek in october for steelhead sized rainbows.

That's hard, both great rods but since i'm partial to sage and frequently make long casts with my 4 or 5 weight i'd go with the Z-axis. Hard to go wrong either way

I'm all about catching fish too, i'm not out there for scenery alone!

However the dissapointment of not catching a fish can very in terms of intensness. If i Go fish for a fish like Dollies in Augu ...

Man that's tough, I have never fished outside the U.S. and heck I haven't even fished all of alaska! It's hard to fish all of a state that's twice the size of texas and has more coastline than the res ...

I have used a william joseph access chest pack for quite awhile and for anything but spey fishing I love it. I just ordered a WJ equinox becauase it's similar to the access but more forgiving when cas ...

Boz,

I do not own one because i'm pretty set on single hand fast action rods but like you I was amazed by the BIIMX and along with the TCR it was the best rod I have casted in terms of ease for Max ...

To me when comparing rods of mid or high end from reputable companies(exept for st. croix but that's a rant for another day!) such as sage or loomis it's all about testing them out because most all qu ...

Up here there are a lot of reasons why lodges make sense.

First off alaska is so undeveloped that on many of the good rivers there are no motels or pizza parlors for miles. Most all of bristol bay ...

I believe it's rio that makes the outbound.

Anyone here cast a two hander or seen someone do it in the salt?

The rio speycasting video talks about it and i know some striper fisherman do it.

Just intersted cuz i think it would catch on. I ...

Just tested out the line the other day and was not that impressed to be honest.

It did sink around the first 10 feet of line which i didn't like.

Did it shoot line real well, Sure. was the diffe ...

I actually tie quite a few different patterns, some complicated, probably because i fish so much for salmon in freshwater. Steelhead, Trout and Salmon in the salt all feed 10 or so flies that match th ...

Good info KC. The patterns I have been tying (the intruders) have a stinger hook (the only hook size 8 or 10) in the back near the tail. I use the shank of a size 4 or 2 to tie the material to as well ...

I fish tube flies A LOT especially if the fly is a big one like to swing with a sink tip whether it be with a two hander or singe hander.

Still i tie a lot of smaller and/or non swinging patterns ...

Excellent post jeremy

You are right about them not lasting, they do break down.

One thing i have learned is that guiding up here may be the ultimate test for waders. I have talked to guides who ...

No brown trout in Alaska.

They just never made it up here. Remember brownies are not native to North America, i'm guessing that when a lot of the planting of browns from Europe was goin on centurie ...

kodiak,

So, I have a question .. considering that you are from alaska and obviously more knowledgable and connected to the fly fishing scene than just a guy like me who might go there on a couple ...

www.alaskaflyfish.net

Great fishing forum. Some of the best salmon and rainbow trout fly fisherman in the world all sharing info.

Black articulated conehead bunny fly.

I was tempted with the wooly bugger as it has caught me more fish but the big nasty bunny fly has caught me more BIG trout and i love my BIG trout Exclamation

I have used a lot of rods over the years and there is a reason most of my current rods are sage. IMO they are the best rod company out there.

The main thing i love about them is there durabilty and ...

If the weight of your line is propelling your fly you are fly fishing.

That's the way i would put it.

I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder. I have met some rocky mountain trout purists ...

I've always had best luck with amber as well, it's the best color for every condition. There are other colors that are better for a certain condition than amber but when i pay a good amount of money i ...

"Great fishing is better than Great sex"

I'll test that one out for a while Laughing

I'll be working for royal wolf lodge on Novianuk lake

Well tomorrow i leave for another summer of guiding Very Happy

Last year i didn't spend much time on the internet but this summer I have a laptop which will make it much easier to participate on the flies ...

I've been handicapping myself for years because all I know how to do is swing for steelies. Granted I've had some memorable days but I keep hearing of these 50 fish hooked days around the great lakes. ...

Only fall run on Kodiak also, but they are still in pretty good shape here till about may.

I fish for trout up here in the spring when they are feeding on salmon smolt and the only fly i need is the blue smolt, best smolt pattern i have ever used.

A jerry garcia aka a clown egg or dennis rodman

Hasn't snowed or rained to much here lately but it has been the coldest march i have ever experienced on Kodiak. I'm officially sick of winter also Exclamation