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After a year of uncertainty due to Covid, we are sure glad to be "back at it" up here at ATA Lodge, on the Wild Alagnak River! June 8th is always the season opener up here, and the trout have not seen a fly in the 8 months since we left last September!  So we are always excited to get back on the water and wet a fly.    In fact, June may well be my personal favorite time to be on the river.  The salmon haven't arrived yet.  There aren't many guests that come up for just the trout fishing.  We've been missing the beauty of the river and area and are so happy to look over the meadow...

We have had a late start due to Covid19, but we are happy to announce that we are Open for Business As Not So Usual!   And what a great time to be here at ATA Lodge on the Alagnak Wild River!! Normally we would have an opening week starting June 8th with a lodge full of guests here for the great trout fishing that we have at the beginning of the season before the salmon start to arrive.  But this year we were forced to close for the whole month of June because of complications related to the Covid19 pandemic.   What that meant for us, is that our staff got to do a little fishing between opening up projects and...

Another Great Season in the Books at ATA Lodge!  After browsing through this blog post, I think that you will have to admit that The Alagnak Wild River is a pretty photogenic location.  We certainly feel privileged to be able to call it "home" for almost 5 months every year! Conditions this season were a bit different than what we have come to expect out here in Bristol Bay.  After a very mild winter with little snowpack on the mountains, we went on to experience an unprecedented heatwave and drought throughout the entire season.  The snow that was on the mountains in spring had almost totally melted off by early July as the photo above shows.  Normally we would have prolonged...

I've heard it said that a picture paints a thousand words!  So I thought I'd let some of our photos from July "tell the story" of how things have been going so far this season!!

Opening Week of the 2019 Season started with a promise of Great Things to Come with a Rainbow at Midnight on the 8th of June in the Land of the Midnight Sun! And boy did that ever prove to be true when our guests for the first week arrived and started catching Rainbows of a fishy kind!  All our guests were thrilled with the overall quality of fishing to be had from day one!       The Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay has long be renowned for its fantastic rainbow trout fishing.  And June is the best time to come for "mousing", dry fly fishing as well as streamer fishing.   One after another, those hungry trout were keen to...