Alaskan Hatches

It's no joke: You can catch Alaskan rainbows on dry flies

We all know what Alaskan trout fishing is like--big fish and lots of them, most of them caught using techniques that leave traditional fly fishermen feeling a little like they opened a jar of Pautzkes. Salmon egg-patterns (or worse, beads), big leeches dredged along the bottom, heavy sinking tips--it is just not the same as drifting a Parachute Adams over a trout sipping mayflies. Although big fish are great, there is something unmatched about taking trout on the surface. But think how much fun it would be if you could do both--lots of three- and four-pound rainbows eating whatever floats over them. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.