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We are having a great season on the Wild Alagnak River at Alaska Trophy Adventures Lodge!  The fishing has been HOT!  The wildlife viewing and photography has been fantastic! We have had an outstanding run of Sockeye Salmon and our clients have been limiting out in a few hours everyday! And despite the big numbers of salmon in the river we are still catching some great rainbows too! It's hard not to just stop and marvel at the beauty of the location. And it's not just the guys that are getting in to the action.  Our women clients are showing everybody how to get the job done too! Meal times are a great time to make new friends and as...

We've Been Slamm'n Salmon for the past week on the Wild Alagnak River.  The Sockeye have been streaming past in their 10's of THOUSANDS!  One day they estimated 300,000 entered the river!  We expect them to keep running strong for the next 2 1/2 weeks!   We've had some great clients coming through our doors and have enjoyed introducing them to this amazing river! It's fun sharing the river with our neighbors, like this beautiful Moose! But with the arrival of the first waves of Sockeye Salmon, the Bears have started to show up and we are seeing Bears every day now chasing after the fresh fish.  But that means that Moose sighting are becoming increasingly rare as they fear...

Great Day for a Fly Out over the Katmai National Park to Hallo Bay to view the Coastal Brown Bears! A view only seen by Eagles! Big Brown Bears on the Coast before the Salmon arrive during mating season and foraging on sedge grass and clams on the coast. Up Close and Personal with the Coastal Brown Bears of Hallo Bay! Happy Clients! Our Air Taxi Awaits to whisk you back to ATA Lodge! Bird's Eye View of ATA Lodge!  A Moose in the creek as we come in for a river landing on the float plane. All in all, a great time was had by all! So, what are you waiting for?  We would love to show the very...

So its now week two and after a great opening week, week 2 got even better!  Hot Leopard Rainbow Trout action and some amazing wildlife being seen! Moose on the Loose! Beautiful Bows! We are not the only fishers on this river! Happy Clients! The BEAR Necessities!  We Love Big Bows and We Can Not Lie! ATAL.....A True Alaska Lodge! www.atalodge.com call on 877 801 2289

Prepare to be amazed by the spectacle of natural beauty and wonder of The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. ATAL offers flight seeing tours over and down into this amazing natural phenomenon. On June 6, 1912, a new volcano emerged on the Katmai landscape and forever altered this region. For 60 hours, a volcano later named Novarupta sent ash into the sky as high as 20 miles (30 km). Ash and pumice from the eruption also rushed down the Ukak River valley as pyroclastic flows and surges moving at more than 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour). (source nps.gov) The Ukak River valley was transformed into 40 square miles (64 square kilometers) of barren ash. Heat trapped in...