For those of you who don’t speak Spanish, ‘Estamos Listos’ is our very rough translation of ‘Game On’, because today the first guests of our season are arriving at Chile West. It’s our third season operating in Chile, and we’re really happy to be back at it. From now through the end of April, we’ll…
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Archives for November 2010
Mending – Lift and Lay
Today we’ve got part 3 in our mini-series about mending your fly line, and we’re covering some of the finer points of mending. Is this the glamorous stuff? No, not really. Will this stuff help you catch more fish? Heck yes. Mending Part 3 Let’s say, for the sake of example, we are mending upstream….
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Silver Salmon Basics
Justin Jackson, Alaska West guide extraordinaire, drops by our blog in video format today to walk us through the basics of silver salmon fishing on the Kanektok. Here’s the outline for Silver Fishing 101. Fish slow pockets of water. Use a floating line and a weighted fly to get a nice jigging action when you…
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Eagle’s Nest
On the Lower Dean River below the canyon, many of the runs that we fish for steelhead and chinooks are rippin’ fast. Dean fish are strong, so they hold in water where a lot of other critters can’t. Just below the mouth of the canyon, however, is Eagle’s Nest – a giant bouldery glide that…
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Bonefish and Mangroves
Bonefish and mangroves go together like chocolate and peanut butter, like Sonny and Cher, like Jack and Diane. Here’s why. Mangroves provide important rearing habitat for all kinds of little critters that bonefish like to eat. Mangroves provide cover for bonefish, allowing them to travel far inland on a high tide to eat, but still…
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Present the Fly Quickly
“Get it in the ballpark quickly.” “You don’t have to cast 80 feet onto a dinner plate.” “Speed is more important than distance.” We get asked a lot about what kind of casting skill is required to catch bonefish. We use the three quotes above a lot. On South Andros, our bonefish tend not to…
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Nice to Meet You.
Hi there. I’m a leopard rainbow trout. I live in the Kanektok River in Southwest Alaska. Let me tell you a little about myself. I’m not as big as lots of my brothers and sisters, but I’ve definitely got the family’s typical pink cheeks and mega-spots. I like hanging out on shelves and dropoffs, around…
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Fly Wallets
Thanks to Bill Lenehan for another cool guest post about useful fishing gear that you might not find at your local shop. Bill’s last post told us all about Kelly Kettles. Today, it’s worm wallets for big flies. Want to write a guest post for us? Great! Drop us a line. Worm Wallets! Intruders, Skagit…
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Back to the Flat
Andy Bowen, proud owner of Cohutta Fishing Company in North Georgia, is one of those guys who knows how awesome the fishing is on South Andros Island between October and February. He was part of the Bruce Chard Bonefishing School group at the lodge this last week, and those folks had some pretty epic fishing….
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Belly – More on Mending Line
It’s time for part 2 in our series about mending your fly line. Today it’s all about ‘belly’! Fly Line ‘Belly’ and Mending We have talked about the word ‘mend’ and its meaning. So now that we know that the mend will affect the presentation of the fly, let’s talk about ‘belly’. Belly can be explained…
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