![]() ![]() Most of the prolific trout fisheries in southwest Alaska are much larger, often unwadeable drainages. The hard freckles on their backs, fins and flanks read like some codified language that spells out the story of the last epoch, when the glaciers receded, and this perfect trout colonized the streams, creeks, and rivers from Northern Mexico to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Their torsional bodies blushing with an iridescent array of colors that run from one end of the spectrum to the other. It doesn’t hurt that they are also stunningly beautiful. They are reckless, acrobatic, and completely unpredictable. If you’ve ever hooked one it is immediately clear how this came to be. ![]() Considered by many to be one of the finest fighting fish to target on the fly, they have become synonymous with the sport itself. Today it can be found on every continent with the exclusion of Antarctica. It is almost certainly one of the most widely distributed fish on Earth, having been exported around the globe from its native Pacific drainages to every far flung corner of the planet. This particular trout, who is a member of the Pacific Salmon family Oncorhynchus, is perhaps the most venerated of all freshwater fish. ![]() And it is not hard for me to imagine, as one of their guides, what fish is most often on the forefront of their collective minds as I go about assisting them with gear and tackle. Now, after all of the planning and preparation, paradise is just a short distance away. Looming to the south of town, across the wide river, is the whole of the Alaska Peninsula.īy mid day they have all arrived with their luggage and are eager to hurry through the introductions and camp tour to get their first taste of what they have all surely been thinking about for months on end, the promise of some of the best fly fishing that remains within the borders of the U.S. It’s built along the northern banks of the massive Naknek River. There will be four of them coming in from the frontier town of King Salmon a hardscrabble hamlet consisting of a small commercial airport and a few businesses, its population made up mostly of pilots and fishermen. Today we will welcome our first group of guests into our small tent camp. Some of the best fly fishing for rainbow trout on the planet is found in the Bristol Bay drainages of southwest Alaska. ![]()
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