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Archives for August 2010
Alaska West Fishing Report: August 6 – 13
For week 9 at Alaska West we welcomed back many longtime friends and guests. Bruce Cook Sr and Jr brought back the usual crew of Ray Smith, Brian Silver, Tyler and Chandler Cook, Larry and Scott Ryan, Brian Buchanan and Bob Anderson. What a great group of guys with solid fishing experience. Ron Martin and Dick Stevens also…
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Nice Fish, Rick.
We’re really grateful to Rick Covich – his sons Trevor and Tyler are two of the rock stars on our team at Alaska West. Rick got to join his boys for some fishing on the Kanektok this past July, and among a whole boatload of other critters, he landed this beauty of a king. Nice…
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Jeff Hickman’s BC West Trip Report
Jeff Hickman, Deneki Outdoors alumnus and celebrity Oregon fishing guide, visited BC West in early July and got to partake in the real, real good fishing for steelhead and chinooks that’s been happening on the Dean this year (it’s back!). Jeff put together some great words and photos from his trip, just for your reading…
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Wading in Shallow Water
Bonefish swimming in very shallow water are often at their spookiest, especially when the water’s calm as well. If you’re chasing shallow water bonefish on foot, these handy tips will help you get your fly into that fish’s mouth – which isn’t going to happen if you spook him first. Walk slowly. The noise created…
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Skagit Master Forum
You know we like spey casting, right? You know about Skagit Master Volume 1, featuring Ed Ward telling you all about his approach to Skagit-style fishing, right? You might even know that Skagit Master Volume 2 is in production, this time featuring Scott Howell giving his take on all things related to Skagitology. Well today…
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Pelican Cases
If you’ve spent much time on the water with serious photographers, chances are you’ve seen Pelican cases at work. Pelican cases are bombproof, and they’re simply the safest way to take electronics like cameras along on fishing trips. Here’s why. They’re waterproof 100% of the time. They’re dustproof 100% of the time. They protect your…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 31 – August 7
Photos: BC West Staff Week 7 saw several old Dean River hands make their annual appearance on the river, and although the lower river fishing remained in a holding pattern for the next good push of the larger August fish, the upper river gave up some fish in bits and pieces with the occasional bonus…
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Watch That Thumb
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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Taking It All In
At Chile West most of our trips run on a slightly longer format than normal – a 10 night, 8 fishing day program is our standard. The 10 day trip gives us plenty of time to really take in Southern Chile and fish a ton of different water. It also gives us time to relax!…
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