This week we welcomed back quite a few long-time guests of Alaska West. Photo: Cameron Miller Guys like Mac and Greg Miller, John Amiro, John Carbone, Pete and Craig Durno and Family, Ken Plank, Jeb Curelop, Bud Fogel, Jim Coleman and Bob Carr have been with us many times and hopefully many more to come….
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Archives for August 2009
Dana Sturn on Boat Safety and…Splash!
Please pay attention when exiting the cabin. Photo: Dana Sturn Dana Sturn, founder of speypages.com, fished with us at BC West on the Dean River this summer, and has written a great post for us on the proper way to exit a boat. — Splash I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that over the past…
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Chile West Watercraft
Boat #1: low water and small spaces Photo: Chris Price At Chile West, the mobility of our program allows us to travel to remote locations where the variety of water is pretty much unlimited. We fish big rivers to little streams and after years of experience and exploration, we determined that we need watercraft that…
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Dean River Coho
A Dean River coho and its weary, shaky victim. The Dean River has a reputation for being home to the hottest, strongest steelhead and chinook salmon around. Its steep gradient and legendary canyon section have bred super-races in all its anadromous species – if you’re going to spawn in the Dean, you need to be…
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April Vokey Women’s Bonefishing
April catches bonefish too. Photo: Adam Maris We’re pleased to announce a women’s bonefishing trip to Andros South this spring, hosted by April Vokey. April is a certified casting instructor and fly-fishing columnist, and the West Coast field editor for the Canadian Fly Fisher magazine. She is a lead angler for Fly Max Films where…
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Tom Larimer’s King Rig
Tom loads up yet another laser loop. Photo: Cameron Miller Tom Larimer runs one of the premier guide services in the Northwest. He’s a super dude, an incredible angler and teacher, and…you guessed it, he’s one of our spey hosts during our king season at Alaska West. If you saw Tom headed out on the…
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Poling for Bonefish – 6 Tips
Rick stands quietly, and listens to his guide, and has a ‘cuda rod ready, and… So you’re in a fishery like ours on South Andros that’s loaded with bonefish, and you’re fishing from the boat, with your guide on the push pole. What should you do to make sure you’re successful? Here’s what. Be quiet….
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Dana Sturn on Dean River Chinooks and Medieval Drag
This chinook fell prey to Medieval Drag. Photo: Dana Sturn Dana Sturn founded speypages.com, and let’s just say Dana’s been around the block as it relates to anadromous angling. Dana had the opportunity to hook some chinooks at BC West this year, and as a result he’s written this piece for us on Medieval Drag….
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Alaska West Fishing Report: August 7 – 14
Week 9 of the Alaska West season welcomed back some long time guests in the Bruce Cook Sr. group. Photo: Cameron Miller Bruce Cook Jr, Ray Smith and Bob Anderson all joined us again with Sr. They also brought a couple of the younger generation with them in Chandler and Tyler Cook just to keep…
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Simms Flats Sneakers
Don’t forget your Simms Flats Sneakers. South Andros is a fishery where your footwear matters. We do a ton of wading. Some of our flats have nice, hard white sand bottoms where you could wade barefoot if you wanted to. Other flats have mud, turtle grass, sea urchins and chunks of limestone. You don’t want…
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