Brian Niska is one of our guest spey instruction gurus at Alaska West. He also owns Whistler Fly Fishing. He put together a couple of great posts for us about the hardest working fish in the river – the chum salmon. Brian’s teaching spey casting for two weeks at Alaska West this summer. One of…
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Archives for January 2011
Casting on the Flats – Top 3 Tips
We’ve given an awful lot of different casting advice to our guests at Andros South over the years. We could write a book! That being said, there are some issues that we see over and over, and some advice that we give over and over. If we had to pick our top 3 casting tips…
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Do You Have Any Chubby Chernobyls?
Here’s Michael White, realizing that he’s happy to be traveling in good hands in Southern Chile. More on Culture at Chile West Rodeo! All Terrain, Chile Edition 10 Cool Things About Fishing in Chile
Focal Fish: Check it Out
Every once in a while we find a great new fly fishing web site, and we tell you about it. Today is one of those days. Focal Fish posts one great fishing photo every day, taken by a guide who’s also a photographer. That pretty much tells the story. The pictures are awesome. You should…
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Tic Toc
Today Chris Price checks back in from Southern Chile with a follow up to his “Pull, Don’t Push” advice from last week. Tic Toc When casting, we’re pulling not pushing, right? As we’re false casting and getting ready to let it fly, we often have a tendency to give a little extra oomph into the last…
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Top Salmon Fishing Posts of 2010
Congratulations – you’re about to endure the last of our ‘Best of 2010’ posts. You’ve seen which of our articles about trout, and bonefish, and steelhead were most popular in 2010. If there’s anything we know well it’s fly fishing for salmon, and today you get to see which of our top 10 salmon fishing…
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Parent, Child, Trout
Have we mentioned that we love taking families fishing, and that we think the experiences that families share together on the water are just about the coolest thing since sliced bread? Steve and Finn Ward had a great time fishing together at Alaska West, and caught some great trout together too. More Cool Pictures from…
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BC West in Fly Rod and Reel
Greg Thomas was one of the lucky anglers that experienced some phenomenal fishing at BC West on the Dean River this past summer. The current issue of Fly Rod and Reel includes a great piece by Greg on his trip, and it’s available on newsstands now. Here’s a hint – the “Steelhead Jackpot” tagline is…
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Backyard Salmon
Rivers change every year, and the Kanektok River, home of Alaska West, changes more than most. As a gravelly, low-gradient river, runs come and go with regularity on the Kanektok. Sometimes we get great water right in our backyard… And that’s the topic of today’s guest post by Kimi Reid. Kimi is a proud alumna…
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Just Polin’ Around
…looking for bonefish on South Andros Island. P.S. We do a lot of wading too. More on South Andros Cocktails at the Slack Tide All About the Island End of the Day