Our Team
Chrome Chasers runs two seasons and two very different programs, but the team behind both is small by design. Rick and Dori are here every week of every season. The guides they bring in are people they fish with, trust, and have shared a table with for years. Everyone here cares about these fish and these waters — not as a policy, but as a conviction.
Rick has spent more time watching wild steelhead move through the rivers of Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest than arguably anyone alive. He has been guiding these waters for over two decades — rotating rivers every seven to ten days to minimize pressure, fishing exclusively catch-and-release with single barbless hooks, and contributing genetic sampling data to the Wild Salmon Center's research on these fish. He knows where they hold, how they move, and what the river looks like when something is about to happen. That same depth of knowledge carries into every other corner of the Chrome Chasers week. Rick is a licensed Coast Guard Captain, an accomplished chef, and the person running the Chromagnum through Southeast Alaska's inland passages before most guests have finished their coffee. He built the smokehouse behind the lodge, manages the crab and shrimp pots, and is just as comfortable at a fillet table or a kitchen stove as he is on a steelhead river. The food guests eat each evening is largely a product of what he pulled from the water that day. Chrome Chasers is Rick's program in every sense — the conservation ethic, the remote access, the standard of the table. He built it that way on purpose.
Hawaii on the Fly has been doing this for 30 years, and Kenny Karas has been at the center of it the whole time. He runs the first flats boat guide service in Hawaii for world-class bonefish — rated among the world's top ten destinations for fish over 10 pounds by the IGFA. Based in Kailua on Oahu, Kenny specializes in 100% sight fishing for o'io — the Hawaiian word for bonefish — fish that are notoriously large, wary, and unforgiving of a bad cast.
Rick and Kenny go back years, crossing paths on Oahu and Molokai, where the two spent time guiding fishing and hunting trips together long before Kenny ever set foot in Alaska. That history is what brought him to the Chrome Chasers team in 2021, and it shows on the water. Kenny guides the Fall Fishing and Foraging program each August and September, bringing the same precision and patience he developed chasing tailing fish on Hawaiian flats to Southeast Alaska's salmon streams, ocean grounds, and old-growth creek corridors.
Two more different fisheries are hard to imagine. He handles both without missing a beat.
Kenny Karas
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