One of the most-requested topics on our blog is information about reading water – especially water where trout live. We can’t think of a better expert on fishing for trout than a guy who makes his living knowing where trout live – that would be Chris Price, our manager at Chile West. We asked Chris…
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Archives for October 2010
This Guy Loves Trout
Valentine’s Day is still a few months away, but this shot from the last week of our season at Alaska West just couldn’t wait that long. When Kevin says he loves trout fishing, he means it. More on Rainbow Trout When to Go Trout Fishing in Alaska Mr. Hankey 5 Reasons We Love Arolik Rainbows
Want to Write for Us?
We love running guest posts on our blog. If you’d like to write for us, we’d love to hear from you. Our blog covers all aspects of fly fishing – tips, gear reviews, trip reports, pictures, conservation issues, and stuff that’s even borderline funny sometimes. We really like having outside perspectives – there’s a lot…
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6 Reasons to Go Trout Fishing in Chile
Why go all the way to Chile for trout when you can fish your home river? Yeah, it’s in another hemisphere for most of you, but the payoff is huge. The Carretera Austral. The ‘Southern Highway’ that we follow through Chilean Patagonia takes us through another world. Scenery and isolation combine with fabulous fishing and fun…
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A Very Simple Explanation
This is why you fish the Dean in June. Any questions? More on the Dean River Steelhead Fly Selection Dana Sturn’s in Love 5 Cool Things About the Dean
Man and Silver
Send a bunch of cameras out every day with a bunch of guides on a river that’s loaded with fish, and you’re bound to get some pictures that are beautiful, some pictures that are heroic, some pictures that are artistic, and some pictures that are just, well, kind of strange. Garrett Sullivan and his friend…
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How to Handle a Bonefish
If you’re fishing for bonefish somewhere like South Andros Island, you’re going to catch a lot of them. Yes, we all want to get a few hero shots, and that’s OK, as long as you treat the fish well in the process. But what about all those other ones? You know, those fish that you…
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Top Bonefishing Tips
This is the time of year that lots of fly anglers are getting ready for their winter bonefishing trips. Yes, you should be getting your calendar straight and your plane tickets booked, but now’s also the time to brush up on your skills. Pebble Beach is not the place to be working on your golf…
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The Essentials
What more could an angler ask for? Good looking flies, a two-handed rod and a few shooting heads – and they all happen to be sitting in the tray of a bad-ass jet sled, and that sled happens to be floating on the most ridiculous steelhead river on the planet. More on Gear for the…
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Spey Casting – Snap T / Circle Spey Basics
It’s spey casting video time. Whitney Gould makes an appearance today to walk us through the basic steps involved in making one of the most useful spey casts out there – the Snap T a.k.a. Circle Spey a.k.a. C-Spey a.k.a. Circle Cast. It’s a great cast that just happens to have a lot of names….
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