…and we finish of the year with another round of “stuff written by other folks we think you’ll like reading if you like fly fishing”! Hatchery Steelhead Are Tasty. A friendly reminder from Buster Wants to Fish. On the Edges of a Day Afield. Josh Mills with great stuff on the beginning and ending of…
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Archives for December 2011
Nice Fish, Dave
Dave Baca got this beautiful chrome steelhead at BC West on the Dean this summer. Tom Larimer got to watch the action and jump in for the hero shot. Adam Tavender was there to capture the moment. More on Dean Steelhead Care to Join Us? Sage Rods With Which to Chase Them Where You Can…
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What’s Your Favorite Trailer Hook?
Look, we know you steelhead and salmon types are a bunch of opinionated…well, we know you’re opinionated. That’s OK – we are too. We want to hear your opinions on a topic that’s near and dear to the hearts of those of us who swing articulated and/or tube flies – what’s your favorite trailer hook?…
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Top Trout Fishing Posts of 2011
Last week we started our end-of-the-year series on our top posts of 2011 with a rundown of the most popular posts about bonefishing on our blog. Today we continue with the posts about trout fishing that you folks read the most. Before we start with the list, we should point out that we added an…
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Andros Trip Report from Gabe Nyblad
Gabe Nyblad is a fantastic guide and a good buddy of ours. We’ve been working on him to join us at Andros South for a few years now, and he finally made it down earlier this month. We always love getting perspective on our operations from other folks in the industry, so we talked Gabe…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Bead Rig
In the past couple of weeks we’ve learned from J.E.B. Hall about how he rigs up and chases rainbow trout in Alaska with mouse patterns and sculpin patterns. Today we wrap up our mini-series on JEB’s trout rigs as he tells us about how he uses beads to imitate salmon eggs. Once again, it’s built…
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Airflo Rage Compact Head
Many of us who learned to spey cast using Skagit-style systems have never felt that comfortable casting floating lines. There, I said it! Your fearless editor was raised on T-14; I’m really bad at casting even Scandi heads. These days in the Pacific Northwest, lots of us fish Skagit heads and sinktips most of the…
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Put Your Rod Tip in the Water
One very common mistake made by first-time flats anglers is to leave the rod tip above the water when presenting the fly to a bonefish. When you’re fishing in rivers, you spend a lot of time with your rod tip high, mending line and waiting for a fish to eat. In fresh water, a ‘low…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig
Last week you got to soak up some Alaska mousing knowledge from JEB Hall, courtesy of our expert rig post on how he approaches mousing at Alaska West. Today, our JEB trout series continues, with The Goods on how JEB fishes sculpin patterns. Read on! The Summary Sage 690-4 One Sage 4250 Reel Scientific Anglers…
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Top Bonefishing Posts of 2011
It’s become a tradition here at the Deneki blog – around the end of each year we run a little series of lists of the most popular posts on our blog during the year. We want to make sure you don’t miss out on the good stuff! Since we’re catching bonefish right now, we figured…
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