We love the spots on our Chilean Brown Trout. More on Trout in Chile Another Cool Spotted Fish Fish Story How Our Season Went
Archives for April 2010
Navigating our Web Site
We’ve had a bunch of new visitors on our web site recently (Welcome!), so we thought it’d be nice to give a quick overview on how to navigate the 650+ pages (and growing daily) on our site. There’s a lot here – we want you to find what you’re looking for! Overview We post to…
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Bruce Chard lets a big one go on South Andros. More Cool Pictures from Andros South Shallow Water Bonefish Aerial Shots of the Flats Offshore Sunrise
Bananas in the Boat
Anyone who’s been around fishing for a while knows that many, many anglers believe that having a banana along on a fishing trip represents some seriously bad juju. A story we recently heard about a day of steelhead fishing is a classic example. Two friends were fishing and one of them caught a fish and…
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Hand-Tied Leaders for Saltwater Fishing
Today we hear from Bruce Chard – legendary guide in the Florida Keys and teacher of our bonefishing schools at Andros South – about why he prefers hand-tied leaders for fishing on the saltwater flats. Bruce Chard on Saltwater Leaders I have seen a lot of leaders break in my days – unfortunately – but…
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Salmon Recipe from Matt Hynes
It’s time for another salmon recipe! Today we hear from Matt Hynes, long-time guide at Alaska West and new member of the management team at Andros South. Matt’s recipe involves the use of a cedar plank. If you’ve cooked much salmon and you haven’t tried out the plank yet, now’s the time. Cedar Plank Salmon…
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Flying to BC West
Have we mentioned recently that your trip to BC West on the Dean River includes a helicopter flight from Bella Coola to the mouth of the Dean, and that the flight is one of the cooler things you’ll ever experience on a fishing trip? Didn’t think so. More on BC West Dean Chinooks (not long…
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Our Season in Chile
Since Chile West is our newest operation, we get a lot of questions from people asking how things are going down there. We just wrapped up our 2009-2010 season, so we figured we’d give you a little rundown on how things went, and tell you where you can go for more info…and lots of pictures,…
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Chile Fishing Report: March 2010
Despite the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in central Chile on February 27th, our trip in early March was business as usual for Chile West. Photos: Chile West Guests, Chile West Team We had three guests scheduled to fish just one week after the quake, two of which were already to be fishing in Chile. Carlos arrived…
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Fish Your Fly
Today we present a short video featuring Tom Larimer, Oregon steelhead guide and spey guru extraordinaire. Tom thinks that one of the biggest mistakes people when fishing for steelhead is fishing in ‘remote control’ mode. NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here to see the video on YouTube. Tom…
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