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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!!

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.

Wow!  What a season!  We had a lot to smile about!  Time sure flies when you are having fun!  And that is what the 2018 season at ATA Lodge seemed to be all about....having fun!