Ambler Haul Road Threatens Alaska’s Brooks Range
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by Greg Thomas
4M ago
Photo Courtesy TRCP This certainly isn’t the best news on Alaska. Seems like we push back one threat and here come five more. I have not fished or hiked through the Brooks Range, but I know it is one of the wildest places on the planet, a roadless region of immense proportions that is essential habitat for so many wildlife species, including fish of all sorts. Grayling. Sheefish. Dolly varden. It’s an outdoorsman’s paradise and now people want to cut it off at the hip. That would, essentially, be the case if several mining companies get the go-ahead to build the proposed 211-mile long road ..read more
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Montana Bull Trout Redd Numbers Decline
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by Greg Thomas
11M ago
I love what bull trout bring to the table—a reason for kicking your ass to get into the backcountry where some of the best fishing for this native char is found. Each year I hoist the backpack and take off into the roadless, hoping to time my explorations with the arrival of migrating bulls. It’s some of the most interesting and adventurous fishing I do and I love being off the grid, off line, unplugged and just living again. That’s wh Bull trout country. y this news from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is a bummer and makes you wonder what the future of native species will be. Remember, th ..read more
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Alaska Kings On The Six Weight
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Ran across this photo yesterday and snapped a shot of it with the phone. It definitely takes me back in the day. I took this photo when a friend and I were working in Southeast Alaska and fishing as often as we could. There was a good run of kings at that time and they’d push into a system on every incoming tide. When they ran through a rapids they’d sort of daisy chain in a calm area and that is the only reason we landed some—they didn’t want to run back down the rapids. At the time each of owned one rod, my friend a six-weight Fenwick and myself a six-weight Sage. We were way outgunned by th ..read more
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Hatch Guide: Mother’s Day Caddis
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Note: Not sure when I wrote this or for whom, but I found it while searching my files and thought it would be worth posting. You’ve got a couple months before this hatch hits, but it’s worth thinking about it now and getting those flies in order, or tying some to supplement what you may have lost last year.  GT The mother’s day caddis is a hatch I love to hate. Half the time it comes off when water conditions are sketchy at best, and other times a fish has no chance of finding my bug on the water when there are, literally, millions of naturals riding the flow. The hatch occurs anytime fro ..read more
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April or May for Blue Horizon Permit
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Just got a  note yesterday from Blue Horizon lodge, with some open and discounted rates for spring 2023. I spent some time at Blue Horizon not long ago and simply loved the focus on permit. Staying at Blue Horizon is like signing up for a serious fishing Masterclass in permit—you fish the prime tides all day and you mix with the guides and Lincoln Westby in the evenings, with the potential to glean as much information on permit as you choose. Then you eat dinner, get up the next day, rinse and repeat. Here are the discounted dates. If you have any interest in discussing these let me know ..read more
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Go Time For Montana Trout
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Ok, there are flakes falling today and the high will be 35, and it doesn’t look better for the rest of the week. But, things are changing here in Missoula, Montana, with the snowbanks slowly creeping away from the edge of my driveway, exposing a little brown grass and everything else that accumulated there this winter, including a few IPA escapees. Next week the temps could reach the high 40’s, which is fishing weather for sure. Out of curiosity, I checked the date on a photo I was glancing at the other day (see above) and it read March 19. Streamer action, midges, maybe some blue wings and th ..read more
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Gil’s Worldwide At Denver Fly Fishing Show This Week
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Our booth at the Atlanta show. Look for us in Denver this week. I’ll be at the Denver Fly Fishing Show this week/weekend. Show begins Friday and I’ll be at the Gil’s Fly Fishing International booth. I am the editor-in-chief of the travel company’s magazine, Fly Fishing International. You want to talk outdoor writing and discuss ideas for the mag, please find me. Also, we’ll be promoting trips to some of our favorite lodges, including Blue Horizon (super high level permit focussed operation), Fortress Lake (brook trout in big numbers, nestled among the Canadian Rockies), El Pescador (simple p ..read more
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Where In The Fly Fishing World #1
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
If you’ve been around a bit and you fancy yourself a permit junkie, you may recall having seen this a time or two during your escapades. If you haven’t stood over this piece of art you are cheating yourself out of the real deal. Got permit on your mind? Get to this spot. Hints: it’s a permit ok; it’s made out of bottle caps; it would have been fun to help build that supply of caps. The post Where In The Fly Fishing World #1 first appeared on Angler's Tonic ..read more
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Dries For Big Rainbows and Char on American Creek
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
I live in Montana where trout are king. When I travel to Alaska I usually do so for salmon and steelhead, which I can’t find in Big Sky Country. Oh, I’ve leeched up some big fall rainbows on the Kenai Peninsula and the Naknek River, but I’d never really fished early summer around Bristol Bay . . . until last month. That’s when I grabbed a flight from Missoula to Anchorage, and another from Anchorage to Kulik Lodge, via Katmai Air. From there I wiggled into a floatplane and cruised another 20 minutes to Grosvenor Lodge, which is located on a small spit of land partially separating Grosvenor Lak ..read more
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Top Reads in FFI Magazine
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by Greg Thomas
1y ago
Don’t be bored at work today. Take a few minutes to peruse the best fly fishing magazine you’ve never heard of—Fly Fishing International’s FFI Mag. I put this pub together every couple months and I’ve been able to attract some of the best writers and shooters in the business. In the Winter ’23 issue you an read a fresh take on Jurassic Lake by Pat Ford (20 pound beasts in droves). Dave Karczynski coves the Alaska’s smolt crash and what makes that one of the most productive and exciting experiences in fly fishing. Mike Holliday makes a case for never passing up another shot at barracuda in your ..read more
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