The Branham history in Alaska goes back to the late 1930’s with Bud and Dennis Branham paving the way by building some of the first lodges in Alaska. Their pioneering spirit lives on with Dennis Branham’s adoptive son, Chris. Chris’s natural father, Clary Palmer-Wilson, was a great white hunter in East Africa where he met Bud Branham and formed a working partnership. After hearing Clary’s concerns for his son’s future, and because of the growing unrest with the approaching independence of Tanganyika, they decided Bud would bring Clary’s oldest son Michael to the United States where he would see to his college education and eventual employment in the outdoor business which was currently generating a great deal of interest, especially in Alaska. Soon after, the next oldest son Ch Ver más...ristopher was sent to Alaska to help Bud’s brother, Dennis Branham, with the same sort of offer; a college education and experience in the lodge business. Since both Bud and Dennis were pilots, it made sense to teach Mike and Chris how to fly. They both became skilled pilots and Chris has now been an active Alaskan bush pilot for 45 years. Chris is the last of the “African Branham’s” still residing and operating wilderness fly fishing lodges in Alaska.
Twenty years ago, Chris and Linda Branham had a dream to create a five star remote fly-fishing lodge in southwest Alaska. With Chris’s knowledge and experience, he knew that to make his dream a reality, he would have to offer a fishing and lodging experience unlike any other in Alaska. Combined with Linda’s business and culinary background, it seemed like the perfect fit. Their dedication would eventually turn Royal Wolf Lodge into a place worthy of their hard work and dreams.
Royal Wolf Lodge fishes primarily for rainbow trout – weapon of choice, fly rod! In the Bristol Bay region, rainbow trout are world famous not only for their size, but numbers. Average fish range 22-26” with 26-30” fish caught every year. The growing season for these rainbows is very short and encompasses the three to four months during the summer season. These Alaskan rainbow trout are also extremely migratory; biologists have radio-tagged these fish and have found them to travel as far as sixty miles in a single summer. The reason for this migration? Food, glorious food!
The staple food source for these rainbows is salmon. They eat the salmon eggs, they eat the baby salmon (fry, parr and smolt) and they eat the flesh of the dead adult salmon. Within the three main drainages that R Ver más...oyal Wolf fishes, millions upon millions of salmon run every year, making it an ideal area to produce big rainbows. Aside from the salmon, rainbows are also very opportunistic and will feed on a wide array of food items including nymphs, hatching adult insects, mice, leeches and minnows. This allows our Alaska fly fishing guides to utilize many different techniques with the fly rod, including dry flies. Please see our section on techniques for more details.
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Iliamna Lake, Igiugig, Alaska, Estados Unidos 
