Ed Blank's Adventures started with these Alaska float trips over 15 years ago. The trips are fly fishing - rafting - camping adventures in the heart of Alaska's best fly fishing - Bristol Bay, Alaska.  The rivers are clear and easy to wade.  The fish are wild, big and plentiful. The guides are eager to please.

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Are you a fly fishing enthusiast looking for large rainbow trout? Maybe, king salmon in front of your camp? Our float trips offer an exhilarating way to explore and fly fish the incredible Alaska wilderness known as Katmai National Park.  Imagine camping on the bank of a remote stream, fishing until midnight, waking up to the sound of salmon splashing their way upstream or trout slurping caddis outside your tent. These trips are for fly fishing enthusiasts whether they be novices or experts in the art of fly fishing. We promise to provide patient, fly fishing instruction and lots of easy to fool rainbow trout, grayling, salmon and char!.

Our Alaska fly fishing trips are on several different rivers in Katmai including the Alagnak River, Grizzly Creek, and Moraine Creek. We have been floating and fly fishing these rivers for 15 years and have great confidence in the quality of our trips. Fly Fishing is all we do, no spin fishing here.  I am not a snob, I just don't know anything about spin fishing as I grew up fishing on a fly fishing only river!   Some of the rivers we flaot are fly fishing only rivers but you can spin fish as well as fly fish on the Alagnak river.  We of course only fly fish. Most of the fishing is done while wading and although we do fish from the boats while moving down the river. We then stop often for a lot of wade fishing.  Only a small percentage of time is spent in the rafts.

As you probably know a float trip entails camping. You will board a float plane loaded with the rafts, gear and supplies. It will be about a 30-60 minute flight to a lake at the head of your chosen river. After that we are on our own in the middle of nowhere!  This is comfortable camping since we are not backpacking we can carry lots of gear. This means e cots to sleep on, tents you can stand up in, a screened weather proof dining tent, tables stools and lots of great fresh food and wine that will rival any land based lodge. For us, the camping seems a small price to pay to be living on the river with all the extra fly fishing and wild life viewing time that  a float trip offers.

We have rainbow trout, Grayling, Char, King Salmon, Chum Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, Pink Salmon and Silver Salmon in these waters. Our favorite quarry however is the rainbow trout and we love to fly fish for them. Some of the rivers are fly fishing only by law, but all of our trips are fly fishing only regardless of the regulations on the river. Alaska fly fishing regulations require fishing a single, barbless, hook, and all the fishing is catch and release for trout. ( We can harvest a salmon or other non trout species for an occasional dinner if you like).

The big rainbows range from 5-12 pounds, and we have landed a couple fish in the 15 pound range ( Moraine Creek) Five species of Pacific Salmon, Char and Grayling add to excitement every day. Whether you want to fish dry flies for rainbows, or throw a ten weight for a 60 pound King salmon, we feel we offer the best fly fishing float trips in all of Alaska. Join us (Ed, Rachel, Jeff, Mikael and Pedro) for the adventure of a lifetime and the finest fly fishing that Alaska has to offer. Experience the wilds of Alaska away from the crowds, the way it should be.

Testimonials:

"Thanks for everything, That was by far teh best fly fishig trip I have ever been on.  Jeff, Gary and I had a great time"
Tim

" Our trip was the best vacation we've ever had, Which we've already used to bore friends and relatives. Your expert teaching, guiding, cooking etc. made it all possible Now we know why all the references we called last year raved on and on"
Allison & Jeremy"

"This was by far the best fishing trip I have ever heard of much less been on" 
Bill

These fish are steelhead not rainbows and the food in camp , my wife can't do that in her $50,000 kitchen!  The guides were awesome, we caught nearly 20 rainbows a day all over 5 pounds.  My best day was 30, my bigest was 30" and about 12 pounds. Please use me as a reference anytime"
Jim

*Ed Blank has been fly fishing for trout since the age of 6 back in the woods of New Hampshire,  Since then he has fished throughout the world in search of fly fishing heaven.

These Alaska trips are just that - fly fishing heaven!

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