A brown bear doing his own Alaska fly fishing

Alaska

Welcome to Alaska, North America’s magnificent last frontier, where trophy rainbows and splashing salmon await you every morning. Alaska fly fishing is undoubtedly some of the best in the world. Bristol Bay is the life force, pumping migrating schools of salmon by the millions into Southwest Alaska via the unspoiled miles upon miles of streams and tributaries. One of the main arteries of this prolific estuary is the Alagnak River, a clear water fishery second to none, meandering through an pristine wilderness in the heart of Katmai National Park.

Wildlife abounds, as it did 2,000 years ago. Here you can witness Alaskan brown bear, as they migrate with the salmon, feeding for their winter hibernation. See eagles and ospreys, as they hover over the river, plucking out an 18” rainbow. Caribou, moose, and wolves may greet you through a misty morning or a midnight sunset.

June is an over looked rainbow month; with millions of salmon smolts migrating back to the ocean from the lakes that drain into the Alagnak, predatious rainbows gorge after surviving a long winter's fast.

Casting a large mouse pattern with a Spey rod or swinging a large leech pattern is also privy to some of the most ferocious strikes you will ever experienced on a fly rod.

In season, sockeye by the thousands will pass you each day. These fresh chrome acrobats are looking for a fight at the end of your rod, each delivering their own special bag of tricks including flip-flops, vertical vaults, and tenacious runs. They will rip your fly line through the water in an audible, rooster tail fashion. The Alagnak has one of the most reliable and viable runs of sockeye in the state. Not far behind them are 50 lb. kings, chums, pinks and silvers.

With salmon by the millions, the rainbows get fat and sassy.

There is no better way to take this all in than by a remote, wilderness float trip. Through the course of camping during the week, fishing requires that you take a few steps away from the tent. Get just far enough that your back cast doesn’t smack the rain fly. Your “day’s worth” of fishing is only limited to how long you can cast and battle fish with in a 24-hour period. In the early part of summer, you certainly can’t stop fishing because “it‘s getting dark." There is no lodge to get back to because you’re right there in the heart of it!

Come join us for a “Fish On” expedition that will melt your heart and soul and have you begging for more. For that special week, the river is yours for the taking. This will be the trip of a lifetime, but only until the next time. Come see what Alaska fly fishing is all about.