At times mousing is the most productive method and can yield the largest fish of the trip. Rapids Camp Lodge guides can and will teach you proper mousing techniques. The Rainbows of Alaska love to eat rodents. With all the rivers we utilize including the Naknek, it is our treat to see guests smiling with each aggressive grabbing take. To this day we pride ourselves on having top of the line spey instructor guides and equipment. We were the guys who brought spey rods to Bristol Bay. In recent years there has been a resurgence in the interest of streamer fishing no other lodge has been more influential than Rapids Camp. Imagine wading upstream casting a large dry fly, every shadow a potential monster Alaska Rainbow waiting to slurp on a well placed fly. Many days the bugs come out and the fishing can be magical. Rainbows, Grayling and Char utilize every opportunity to make for the surface even if there are no actively hatching bugs. In June as the waters of Southwest Alaska warm, the bug activity increases. Also, Halibut, Rockfish, and many other saltwater species are always biting. Massive insect hatches make June a dry-fly dream come true, and Sockeye and King Salmon flood the area in the middle of this special month. Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Dolly Varden, Artic Char and Grayling are very aggressive and smash almost any fly in their path. The action can be fast, furious and heart stopping.įish in spring waters are impatient for the millions of salmon fry heading to the ocean. Roving up and down the river are schools of large aggressive and hungry trophy Rainbows crashing violently into fleeing shoals of bite size salmon. The outgoing smolt migrations from the millions of salmon who have spawned throughout the Naknek Lake system bring fertile nutrition to the waiting hoards of Rainbow Trout, just when they need it most. Each spring one of the greatest fish migrations found on planet earth happens right in front of the lodge.
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