No See Um Lodge is more than the premier destination for anglers chasing a perfect rainbows and sockeye. Prop up your feet, relax, and spend some online time hanging out at our Holman family homestead.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of staying with us here on the high banks of the beautiful Kvichak River, this section of our No See Um blogs lets you peek through our front door and peer in the windows. We don’t mind. If fact, we’re proud to show off and sound off about our riverfront cabins and breathtaking views. From the sauna and hot tub to our always-open bar, we invite you to take a look around. If you’ve already enjoyed a visit with us, these pages give you instant access to great memories while we keep you up to date with living and loving life in the Last Frontier.
Don’t expect huge changes. We don’t mess with perfection. We just add the things that we know you’ll love like our new gazebo by the horseshoe pits. Whether you’re daydreaming about your next Alaskan fly fishing trip or you’ve already booked your bunk, check in here, and stay connected with your extended No See Um Lodge family.
We’re really excited about our staff going into this 2019 season! Your pilots will be John and Kris . Both will also be guiding during the day. It’s Kris’s first season at the lodge, but he has years of experience flying and guiding the Bristol Bay area. The guides this Read more…
After finishing up the 2018 season at the lodge and having some time to contemplate the lessons learned from this past season and how we would like to improve going forward. We have decided to make a couple of changes for the upcoming 2019 season. In order to offer a couple Read more…
Once again Bristol Bay’s incredible salmon runs made a spectacular return with excellent numbers of sockeye, silvers, chum and notable kings in a few rivers. The sockeye run started a little late but made up for the delay with big numbers. According to Alaska Dept of Fish and Game, 56.5 Read more…
In your imagination, you’ve been there so many times. Once visions of the Last Frontier start dancing in your head, there’s no denying that longing in your soul. If you have any doubts about those dreams tugging on your sleeve, here are 10 sure signs that you really need to Read more…
In 1972 Jack Holman and his wife were teaching in a one room school and living in Levelock, a small native village on the edge of the Kvichak river in Southwest Alaska. Both had recently graduated from college and taken contracts to live in the village and teach for at Read more…
2014 turned out a great summer. We saw excellent salmon returns in most drainages which produced great trout fishing. A few exceptions included the spawners in the Kvichak braids and lower numbers in the Upper American creek. The drainages upstream of the Kvichak were in great shape and the Lower Read more…
2013 season is in the books and goes down as another great year. I personally guided more on “new” water than I did on our traditional rivers. Much of this “exploration” was only possible because we don’t practice the “drop and go” fishing experience. Anyone that has been dropped off Read more…