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Archives for July 2010
Reason #481 To Visit South Andros This Winter
In the middle of winter, sand feels pretty good in your toes. More on South Andros Dominoes Conch Salad Kalik
Lettin’ One Swim
Just a picture of a chrome bright Dean River hen steelhead, set free by Greg Thomas last week. That’s all. More Cool Pictures Landing One on the Arolik Cover of Bonefish Magazine Pretty Day in Chile
Myth Busting, Andros South Style
Michael Gracie was one of the participants in our first ever FIBFest (that would be a gathering of fly fishing bloggers), held at Andros South this past May. Today Michael weighs in with a guest post on misconceptions about bonefishing on South Andros. We think he’s dead on. Have a read! Myth Busting, Andros South…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 17 – 24
Photos: BC West Staff Well George ‘Dump Bear’ Cook, Michael ‘Whitey’ White, Jeff ‘The Mayor’ Watt, Greg ‘no longer stranded on a Montana highway’ Thomas, Andrew ‘The Don’ Bennett, and Gary ‘the cane pole builder’ Berenson all had the ride of their lives into camp via Captain Richard and the A-star heli, featuring up-close glacier…
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Make It a Meal
Today we continue our series of weekly posts straight from The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing – a new collection of 250 nuggets of fly fishing wisdom from Kirk Deeter and the late, great Charlie Meyers. We’re lucky enough to have gotten permission to post some excerpts from the book – read on! Our…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 16 – 23
Week 6 at Alaska West welcomed back many guests who have fished with us here before – some that had fished the same week and others that had fished late silvers and trout with us. Alex and Freddy Alden and good buddy Gary Linnell joined us for a chance at midsummer trout and late kings. They brought…
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Cafe Ricer
At the end of a trip with Chile West, one of our favorite places to dine is Café Ricer. Located in the plaza of Coyhaique, this restaurant attracts tourists from around the globe. There is usually a good mix of international fisherman as well as the locals which makes for great ambiance, in addition to the great…
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Fatty.
Hey, what a surprise! It’s Mike Opitz with a big, fat, chrome king salmon! Hmmm, seems like we’ve seen this somewhere before… More Pictures of Fish Bonefish Hero Shot, Atypical Dean River Steelhead Coolest Hero Shot Ever
Try Fishing Smaller Hooks
For years the ‘standard’ hook sizes used in the pursuit of anadromous fish on swung flies were pretty darned big. 2/0 and 3/0 were ‘king hooks’ and 1/0 and 1 were ‘steelhead hooks’. In recent years many anglers we respect have been fishing hooks that are quite a bit smaller – 1 and 2 for…
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