Dana fishes Bill’s. Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com and casting instructor extraordinaire, visited us at BC West on the Dean this year for some Chinook salmon fishing with a few steelhead thrown in as a bonus. He liked it so much he booked the lodge. Dana will be hosting a Speypages Dean River Spey Week…
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Archives for September 2009
King Flies – The Mikey Prawn
Looks shrimpy, no? Photo: John Ford Brian Niska will be one of our spey instructors at Alaska West in 2010, for the third year running. Today Brian tells us a bit about one of his favorite king flies, the Mikey Prawn. One of Brian’s spey weeks is sold out, but there’s still space in his…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Roundup
We saw some great flies at FFR too. These are from Solitude. A week ago at this time we were at the Fly Fishing Retailer show in Denver, keeping you updated a couple of times a day on the best new gear at we saw at the show. We got a lot of good feedback…
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Fighting Bonefish – 5 Tips
Muddy bottom – rod tip high, but bent to the butt. In the past we’ve covered how to spot bonefish, and how to set the hook on a bonefish. Great, you’ve done it all right and you’ve got one hooked up. Now what? Here’s what. Let him run. As soon as you’re confident that you’ve…
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Chile Fly Fishing Roundup
It’s not an ugly place to fish. We’ve got a whole bunch of posts on our blog about fly fishing in Chile, and we decided it was about time to round ’em up for you! In honor of the beginning of our second season at Chile West late this year, we present to you our…
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Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It
You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven’t noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water, we think switch rods are pretty cool too. One of our favorite trout switch rods so far is the Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis. Here’s why. The…
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Ask The Experts – Most Common Casting Mistake
Andy Kurkulis is not a novice caster. We’re lucky to have a panel of expert anglers from around the world who have agreed to answer our questions every now and again. In today’s edition of “Ask The Experts”, we focused on casting. Here’s the question we posed to our panel. “What’s the casting mistake that…
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Angler’s Tonic
Greg’s stuff is cool. Photo: Angler’s Tonic Today we’ve got a new fly fishing-related website that we think you should check out. It’s called Angler’s Tonic, and it’s by Greg Thomas. You might know of Greg because he wrote a guest post for us a while back about targeting Fresh Fish. More likely, you know…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Wrap-up – Ross and More
A bunch o’ reels. The next few reviews wrap up our coverage from the 2009 Fly Fishing Retailer show. Thanks for checking it out! Over the next few months we’ll be putting a lot of the gear we’ve seen to work, and we’ll follow up with some more detailed reviews. Bruce Chard does a really…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Redington, Buff and Smith
A big guy with a little rod. We’re almost done with our coverage of Fly Fishing Retailer. Here’s the rundown on what we liked from Redington, Buff and Smith Optics. We’ll have one more gear post from FFR this afternoon. Redington Minnow Anything that helps get kids into fly fishing is a great thing in…
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