Our team of mad scientists recently spent some time in our evil lair at the top of the Space Needle, poring over copious amounts of data related to our web site. We came to this scheming conclusion: you like reading about gear. Here are our 5 most read posts of the year so far. Ross…
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Archives for April 2010
Airflo Bonefish Ridge Line Review
Airflo’s Ridge lines are pretty popular in the freshwater fishing world. We’ve been hearing about their bonefish line for a while now, and last month we got the chance to try one out at Andros South. Let’s start at the very beginning. What’s A Ridge Line? It’s a fly line made by Airflo that has…
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Native Fish Society Auction and Banquet
The Native Fish Society is one of our favorite organizations working hard to preserve the fisheries we love. If you’re not familiar with the NFS, here’s their mission statement. The Native Fish Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 whose purpose is to protect and restore native, wild fish and their habitats. Our goal…
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Beautiful Spot in Chile #781
Today’s edition of ‘Beautiful Places in Chile’ doesn’t include any dramatic spires or giant fish – just a classic piece of water in a beautiful valley near Coyhaique. More on Chile West Chile West Photo Gallery Mystery Fish That Most People Think is a Brown Which Rods to Bring
Cool Weather Bonefish
OK, so what do these 4 pictures have in common? Yeah, they’re all shots of pretty darned nice-sized bonefish. But what else? Notice how Nobody in these photos is wearing shorts and T-shirts? There’s no sweat on anyone’s brow? You could even say that these guys are bundled up? These shots were all taken during…
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Andros South Fishing Report – March 2010
March at Andros South is typically one of the best months of the season and this year was no different. The weather the last two months was a bit colder and windier than normal so we were happy to see that it warmed up and settled down for our March guests. We’re not saying that it was…
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Silver Salmon – 3 Reasons to Love Them
There’s billions of them. OK, not billions, but it’s putting it mildly to say that fishing for silver salmon at Alaska West is a ‘numbers-oriented’ fishery. We catch lots and lots of them. They eat poppers. And pollywogs. And wet flies and…well, in certain circumstances, pretty much anything. Yes, certain flies work better than others…
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Favorite Steelhead Rod Roundup
Early last week we asked our loyal readers about which rods you like to fish most for steelhead. Just like we did with our polls about trout rods and bonefish rods, today we’re here to give you the results. Single Handed or Double-Handed? You guys like fishing two-handed rods! Note: there was one switch rod…
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