TopwateradvancedAlaska
Lemming
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Available Sizes#1/0 - #2/0
Color Variations
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Alaska Fly Fishing Goods
Matched on Alaska, topwater flies, rainbow trout. Alaska-specific fly shop with fly categories for trout, char, grayling, salmon, and steelhead.
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Musky Fool
Matched on topwater flies, pike, predator. Great Lakes predator shop and guide brand with musky-specific fly inventory.
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AZ Fly Shop
Matched on topwater flies, trout, trout. Arizona and Southwest shop lead for desert trout, bass, canal carp, and warmwater patterns.
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Fulling Mill Flies
Matched on topwater flies, trout, broad catalog. Large pattern house with broad freshwater and saltwater fly categories.
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Orvis Fly Catalog
Matched on topwater flies, trout, broad catalog. Broad retail catalog for standard trout, warmwater, salmon/steelhead, and saltwater patterns.
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Visit sourceIn the remote tundra streams of western Alaska, lemmings periodically swim across rivers with the optimism of creatures that do not know what lives beneath the surface. What lives beneath the surface is a twenty-eight-inch rainbow trout with anger management issues. This fly imitates that doomed crossing with a buoyant, wake-producing profile that draws strikes measured on the Richter scale. It is the most violent thing that happens on a quiet Alaskan stream.
Quick Facts
TypeTopwater
Difficultyadvanced
SeasonsSummer
Target SpeciesRainbow Trout, Arctic Char, Northern Pike
Sizes#1/0 - #2/0
Best LocationsKanektok River, AK; Togiak River, AK; Bristol Bay rivers, AK
Where to Fish It
Kanektok River
AK · Remote Stream
Togiak River
AK · Remote Stream
Bristol Bay rivers
AK · Braided River
Map unavailable. Locations for Lemming: Kanektok River, AK; Togiak River, AK; Bristol Bay rivers, AK
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