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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...

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...

With only 3 months to go before opening day on the Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, Alaska; ATA Lodge is looking forward to another great season.   It is about this time we start to get that itchy feeling that starts tingling from the very tips of our toes as we anticipate the beginning of another season on what could be considered one of the very best rivers anywhere in the world for what we love to do....and boy do we love to catch fish! For fishermen who have tasted of the goodness of the Alagnak River, they always cherish the moments they have spent standing knee deep in it's crystal clear waters with a fly rod in hand, anticipating...

The Katmai is renowned for some of the best trout fishing anywhere in the world and the Alagnak Wild River in June is one of the best rivers in the Whole of the Katmai and Bristol Bay to get into the action.