Tough Weather, Tougher Group
In Alaska they say you either earn good weather or pay for it. Lately we’ve been starting almost every blog by bragging about the lovely weather we had, so it was clear that our bill would be due sooner then later. And it was – on the third week of August we payed and payed and payed. The fog and the wind and the rain made it for a pretty tough conditions… Luckily, the group we had that week were even tougher – no bad weather could prevent them from enjoying their fishing to the most. Our guests were very excited to catch some silver salmon. At this time of a year,...
Read MoreSweitzers: Six River Experience.
What comes to mind, when you think about a week at a fly-out lodge in remote Alaska? Flying over crystal clear lakes and snow-capped mountains, fishing pristine rivers where every other fish is a trophy and you sometimes have the whole fishery to yourself… No wonder our guests try to do as many fly-outs as possible while they are here, and it’s always a joy for us to make all their wishes come true. That was the case with the second week of August. We had two “executive package” guests – that means you charter our plane to go where you want to when you want to...
Read MoreFather and Son, Trout Slayers from Seattle
The second week of August at Intricate Bay Lodge began with great weather, awesome fishing and interesting wild life encounters. The Alaskan sun kept shining, brown bears and their numerous cubs played and feasted on the salmon, not paying any attention to the anglers. Most importantly the fish behaved exactly the way we wanted them to: rainbows and dollies and silvers and reds just couldn’t stay away from the hooks of our guests! It’s been a great week so far, but the absolute highlight of it was getting an extremely positive feedback from one of our guests. Michael Kovar, who...
Read MoreAugust Began with Casting and Shooting
On the first week of August Intricate Bay Lodge had a special guest – photographer and videographer Dave McCoy. Thanks to his creative eye, professional demeanor and fancy equipment beautiful rainbow trout, numerous sockeye, grayling and many other fish beauties finally got their moments of glory. They posed and acted for Dave’s underwater photos and videos that promise to be pretty amazing, so we just can’t wait to get them and share on our blog. We went fishing for our models at Moraine, Gibraltar and Copper rivers, and – as usual for this time of the year –...
Read MoreIBL owner/operator finally got to go fishing!!!!!!
Quite a day, a beautiful river, lots of bears and BIG RAINBOWS. but I think????? The SMILES were even...
Read MoreOpening Week at Intricate Bay Lodge
June 17th to June 23 2012 During the month of June, fishing the rivers and streams of Bristol Bay and specifically the Lake Iliamna drainage is a very exciting time. The rivers are full of hungry and aggressive rainbows grayling and char. There are a plethora of options for catching these beauties. If variety is what you like, June is the time for you. You can fish a run swinging a large articulated leach, skating a mouse or fry pattern, dead drifting a nymph rig or dry flying with a stone or caddis. Whether you have a preference or want to utilize all techniques mentioned you will have...
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