Expert captains, top quality boats and a beautiful setting are the keys to a great fishing trip. For avid anglers, fishing for wild salmon in Alaska is a Bucket List trip. But for everyone else, just ...

This is Part 2 on The Ridge Lodge, and fly fishing in Alaska. Part 1 can be found here. In Alaska, catching fish isn’t hard — most guides can find you fish. But not all guides are fun to spend a week ...

After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the third installment of a ten-part series ...

John Muir, the famed naturalist, wrote in his journal that "you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live." It is a common ...

Our 42-passenger plane lands with ease on the mile-long sand runway just south of the Arctic Circle. Scraggly black spruce trees line the sides of the airstrip and water laps gently at one end. We are ...

Gimmicks and flash don't amount to much when your work depends on your gear. Here’s a list of my favorite equipment that proved its worth in Alaska. Earlier this summer, I was asked to guide at The ...