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Whether using our 18 ft riverboats or wading the gravel bars and pools, anglers fish with experienced, professional guides. Fishing schedules are flexible. Arrangements can be made for fish to be flown home, either smoked or frozen. Spin or fly equipment is available for guest use, as well as waders, life jackets and rain gear. The lodge is happy to provide spin and fly fishing lessons to newcomers.
Here are some tips on equipment to bring from one of our excellent guides, Tyson Fick:
Fly gear....Rod and Line : "An 8wt rod is ideal for silvers, a bit much for rainbows where a 6wt is ideal...floating line with an assortment of sinking line tips is really nice for the varying depths and speeds of water in the different holes we fish. We can get it done with lead however it will not cast as well as the weighted line."
Flies..."anything bright, some weighted, some not, often I have good success on impromptu flies with no name ... good colors include hot pink, chartreuse, chrome, orange, purple and black. Size 2 streamers work really nice most of the time. specific patterns that work really well here are purple egg sucking leaches, black leaches, flash flies, spankers, cop cars, zonkers, polar shrimp ... don't forget to bring a pollywog or two, nothing is better than catching them on the surface when that is working well. For Rainbows bring egg patterns, leaches, sculpins, and some large elk hair caddis flies in case the grayling bite is on the surface,"
If you choose to bring your own fishing equipment, we recommend:Spin Fishing
Fly Fishing Equipment for Salmon
- 8 to 9ft. spinning rod, medium weight with matching reel
- 12 pound test for salmon (25 pound test for Kings
- 7/8 ounce pixies (red, pink, green), #6 mepps,
- K-6 Kwik Fish, Magnum wiggle warts or Magnum tad pollies for Kings, variety of colors
- 2.0 single hooks for salmon (4.0 for Kings)
- Coil lead with rubber tubing or other variety of weights
- 7 Barrel swivels 7 and snap swivels 2 lb. ( to 60 lb. for Kings)
Trout/Grayling Fly Fishing Equipment
- 8 to 9ft. rod #9 weight with matched reel for King Salmon
- Fast sinking line with Dacron
- Variety of large, flashy wet/streamer flies
- 8 to 9ft. 4 or 5 weight rod
- 1 floating spool with leader
- 1 fast tip sink spool with leader
- Muddlers, variety of leeches, egg pattern variety, variety of # 12-#18 mosquitoes, gnats, coachmen, Adam’s etc
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