George Cook is the Northwest rep for Sage, Redington and Rio. He’s done a boatload of fishing over the years using sinktips (especially on the Kanektok and the Dean), and today he stops by our blog in video format to chat us up about sinktips. Here’s what he covers: Sink rate and the ‘type’ system…
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Archives for May 2010
Don’t Walk in the Clouds
When you’re wading for bonefish at Andros South or anywhere else they swim, you’re going to have some days with no clouds and some days with no sun, but most days are a mix of the two. The sun comes out and you get great visibility; a cloud comes by and the lights go out….
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Seams and Backeddies
In a typical river float with Chile West, anglers have the opportunity to fish lots of different types of water using many methods. Occasionally there will be an area where the river dumps into a rock wall and makes a 90 degree turn creating a big backeddy. Here the current swirls around creating seams that…
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Stop Your Backcast High
One of the biggest casting mistakes made on the saltwater flats is the dreaded ‘dropping of the backcast’. We all do it from time to time…but it sure screws things up when we do. Dropping your backcast happens most often in an effort to add distance to a cast, and the effect is quite the…
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Salmon Recipe from Jim Palmersheim
Today we continue our series of recipes from our team at Alaska West – a bunch of folks who get the chance to partake in beautiful fresh wild salmon quite a lot in the course of a summer… Jim Palmersheim quickly became a fan favorite on our guide staff a few years back. Not only…
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FIBFest Starts Now
Deneki FIBFest starts today. What’s FIBFest? It’s just a group of folks who like fly fishing so much that we take some time to write about it online. We’re going to chase bonefish at Andros South in the Bahamas, and then we’re going to write about it. You’ll see some posts about FIBFest here on…
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Scott Baker-McGarva, Welcome to BC West!
We’re thrilled to welcome Scott Baker-McGarva to our team at BC West this summer. Scott’s taking the reins as our head guide, and we’re mighty excited to have him. Alfie King will be around in a part-time role this season, and Paul Reid and Chris and Belinda Miller will round out the familiar faces in…
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Trevor Covich’s Streamer Rig
Trevor Covich has been working at Alaska West since he was in diapers. Well, close. These days Trevor splits his time between guiding at Alaska West and guiding at Chile West. Trevor loves fishing streamers for big trout in Chile, and today we present, in detail, the rig that Trevor uses when doing just that….
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Not Your Average Fly Box
Reason #21 that it’s fun to go fishing with Michael White: he brings a few flies along. These are all by Idylwilde, if you need to know. More on Flies Bonefish Flies – 5 Favorites for South Andros The Intruder The Mikey Prawn for Kings and Steelhead
Selecting Steelhead Flies
In the past month we’ve had Tom Larimer stop by our blog to give a 6-minute master class on spey casting anchor placement, and a 1-minute diatribe (well, for Tom it was a diatribe) on fishing your fly actively. Today we hear Tom’s thoughts on picking which steelhead fly to fish – especially which color to…
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