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Alaska Glo Bug
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on Alaska, egg flies, salmon. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
Big Y Fly Co.
Matched on egg flies, trout, egg. Broad by-type catalog useful for common benchmark patterns and inexpensive backups.
AZ Fly Shop
Matched on egg flies, trout, trout. Arizona and Southwest shop lead for desert trout, bass, canal carp, and warmwater patterns.
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Salmon eggs are Alaska's universal currency. Every fish in the river eats them -- trout, char, grayling, and more salmon. This yarn egg is so simple it barely qualifies as fly tying, and yet it is arguably the most productive pattern in the forty-ninth state. Some things do not need to be complicated to be perfect.
Meet the Tier
Brad Elfers
Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Juneau, AK
AFFG carries the largest Alaska-specific fly selection anywhere — because Brad believes the patterns should be as wild as the water they're fished on.
Quick Facts
Where to Fish It
Russian River
AK · Salmon River
Kenai River
AK · Salmon River
Bristol Bay rivers
AK · Salmon River
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Alaska: The Last Frontier of Fly Fishing
Alaska is fly fishing distilled to its most primal form. Five species of Pacific salmon, trophy rainbow trout fattened on salmon eggs and flesh, Arctic grayling in waters that have never seen a hatchery truck — this is the complete guide to planning and fishing the Last Frontier.
seasonal playbook
The Summer Guide: Long Days and Willing Fish
Summer is fly fishing's season of abundance. Sixteen-hour days, prolific hatches, aggressive fish, and the full spectrum from mountain trout to saltwater flats. This is your playbook for making the most of the warmest, longest, most generous months of the fishing year.
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Chrome and Current: The Science of Steelhead
Steelhead are rainbow trout that went to sea and came back transformed — chrome-bright, ocean-strong, and wired with a grab reflex that makes them eat flies they have no biological reason to eat. Understanding the science behind the chrome changes how you fish for them.
species science
The Great Migration: Pacific Salmon Life Cycles
Pacific salmon are born in gravel, grow in rivers, vanish into the ocean for years, then navigate thousands of miles back to the exact stream where they hatched — to spawn and die. Their lifecycle is the most dramatic story in freshwater biology, and understanding it makes you a better angler.
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