Royal Coachman: Adventures in the Fly Fishers World

Our Aim is to share our combined knowledge of fly fishing holidays and fly fishing vacations around the world to make your next river fishing, lake fishing or salt-water fly fishing holiday the best ever. We will always strive to ensure that your fishing trip is optimised to meet both the best seasonal conditions. If you would like to know more about the fishing in Alaska, please contact us and we will provide you with more details.

For availabilities, prices, pre trip information, booking form etc. To find out about how we process your data, please read our privacy policy. Please tell us about your trip to Alaska and attach any photographs you would like to share. Please remember that the submitting of your recommendation is considered a release of permission for your testimonial to be used by WhereWiseMenFish for promotional purposes. The latest, far-flung WhereWiseMenFish hosted trip, took us to the Aleutian Rivers camp on the Alaska Peninsula, an area which separates the Pacific Ocean from the Bering Sea and leads to the Aleutian Islands, a region known for its great salmon fishing and frequently inclement weather!

Ever since my first trip to Alaska For a huge country, Alaska can appear to the travelling angler rather crowded! Communities that are virtually silent and shrouded in icy darkness for 7 months of a year burst alive over the summer. More than trawlers and their migrant worker crews Alaska is a VAST wilderness. During much of the year it represents a tough and totally unforgiving environment, for nature as well as those who call it home and make their living here.

It is also an area with quite incredible natural resources, of which the Salmon migration is one aspect that sustains, as well as bewilders, A fresh run King Salmon or Chinook is not a fish to be addressed half-heartedly! They can be fickle to take, the seasonal window to have a good chance of hooking a tide bright fish is limited to no more than a month, they have an all too frequent ability to long-distance release for no apparent good reason, they are typically We flew out on 1st July with BA via London and Seattle, then Alaska Airways to Anchorage, where we stopped two nights at the Millennium Inn to catch our breath, enjoy their impressive gantry of single malt whiskies, and visit the amazing Mountain View Sports emporium for a bit of retail therapy.

Each lodge, destination and species of fish has its own characteristics and more typically one often arrives with a set of preconceptions of what to expect.

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The Royal Coachman, in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, is a fly out lodge which offers a slice of everything. Absurdly good food, very comfortable accommodation and of Design and Website by. Where Wise Men Fish.

Sockeye Red Salmon Best fishing is the first three weeks of July. The run often exceeds over a million and you can catch literally hundreds in front of the lodge Chum Dog Salmon Excellent from mid-June until late July.

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Fish average 10lbs and are exceptional fighters. Char Good fishing is from late May to early July when they congregate to feed on salmon smolts and again in the autumn when they move into rivers to feed on sockeye eggs. Dolly Varden As the mature fish return to their home stream to spawn and feed in August and September, most coastal streams in Alaska provide good fishing for Dolly Varden Grayling It is not uncommon to catch 18 to 20 inch specimens in our home pool in front of the lodge.

Pike Pike weighing up to 30 pounds have been caught by anglers fishing at Royal Coachman Lodge. Availability and Pricing for the Season Season.

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Scott Fly Rod Co. Of course they mean the most to me, who entered them all in the journal so faithfully, for no good reason except that I thought some day I'd be glad I did. And I am glad, but not for quite the reason I expected. Getting there was more than half the fun; getting there was the reason for wanting to go. I was always most restless before I started and after I arrived, as if something in me, even when I was fishing, was anxious to be out moving again, looking to the next spot. Anticipation itself became sport, and travel became the final manifestation of anticipation.

My car was a light blue Volkswagen Super Beetle. I bought it in Tucson in , trading in the crumpled remains of an earlier beetle that I'd flipped and totalled a few days before in Mexico. The new one got its first servicing in Colorado, its second in Ohio, and its third in Montana. This was routine for six years.

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I removed the bottom half of the back seat, so that the top half would fold down flat and hold more books, clothes, and fishing tackle. Often I removed the front passenger seat as well, and converted the right side of the car into a bunk of sorts, that allowed me a level of self-suffiency not usually associated with such small cars. It was good sleeping, and cheap almost beyond belief. Every week or so on a long trip, I'd have to clean out all the little spaces into which loose change, fly boxes, film, and sandwiches would fall.

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When I finally sold the car, I suspected that if someone cared to look they would still find some film canisters, maybe a few flies embedded in the upholstery, possibly even an emergency five dollar bill squirreled away and forgotten under a corner of the floor mat.

The car was resold almost instantly, within a few hours of my dropping it off, and I imagine that if the new owner was at all observant he found plenty of other fisherman's "sign" as well. I kept a small selection of flies, assorted rejects and retirees from my fly box, poked into the padding of the dashboard by the right wing window; he'd have had to wonder what the little holes there were caused by.