Jordan Sly today is back with a handful of tips on maintaining your fly fishing gear. Take good care of all that fancy stuff! Don’t Fold – Roll. If you can’t hang your waders up, always roll them. Folds can cause creases, and creases can cause cracks and thin spots. So instead, place both feet…
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Archives for March 2013
Come a Little Closer
Use caution when photographing barracudas. More on Barracudas Barracuda Flies for the Bahamas Bruce Chard’s ‘Cuda Rig Rigging with Irving and O’Keefe
Top Posts of 2010
We’ve been doing the blogging thing for a while. Most of you folks have found us pretty recently (thanks for reading our blog!), so every once in a while we like to direct you to some posts that are kind of, well, old. Today we present to you the most popular posts on our blog…
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Explore During the Off Season
Most guests at Alaska West know Jordan Sly as the super friendly guy who hauls freight and fuel around the river. That’s his job at the lodge, but it turns out Jordan is one of the most knowledgeable anglers you’ll meet. Jordan grew up fly fishing, and his passion for angling drove him to get…
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7 Ways to Treat Your Fish Better
If you’re like most fly anglers, you’re going to release most of the fish that you catch. Because you want to preserve healthy fisheries, and because it’s the right thing to do, you want your released fish to survive, and thrive, and get bigger, and make babies. Here are 7 ways you can treat your…
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Friends and Family
The best part of being in the fishing lodge business is, without a doubt, the ‘people’ experiences that we get to share with our guests. Long time Andros South guest Andy Dober wrote today’s amazing people story from Andros South. It’s a good one – read on. Thank you, Andy! Friends and Family It’s January…
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Tracy and Matt Write About Alaska
This past July our crew at Alaska West had the huge pleasure of hosting Tracy Moore and Matt Thompson at the lodge. We’re really lucky to fish with a bunch of enthusiastic, joyful, genuine folks – but this couple absolutely pegged the Awesome Meter. They’ve each since started blogs about their fishing experiences, and we…
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Deneki Logo Gear
We thought today that we’d give you a friendly reminder of some of the delightful apparel we have available on our online store. Thanks for listening! Pictured above is our stylish yet refined BC West Trucker Hat. The lodge is sold out for the 2013 season…but you can still own the hat. For years you asked…
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Andros Island Tarpon
Congratulations to Peter Alves and Norman Rolle on landing this beautiful tarpon last week at Andros South! They spotted a group of laid up tarpon on the West Side (where we fish quite a lot these days). Not having a tarpon rod rigged in the boat, Peter’s partner for the day Abbas Adam offered up his…
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The Mangrove Shuffle
Kevin Riley demonstrates the Mangrove Shuffle, which we really, really prefer over the Harlem Shake. More Fun on Andros Nice ‘Cuda, Mary! Bonefish Haiku Contest Hanky Panky