We always love hearing fishing stories from you, our loyal readers. Today we’re asking you to share a very special fishing story – your first. Your First Fish We’re asking you to go back – many years back for some of you. We want to hear about the first fish you ever caught. Where? How?…
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Archives for April 2013
Prime King Salmon Spots at Alaska West
Our peak king salmon weeks at Alaska West tend to sell out due to their combination of big chrome fish, a tendency to eat swung flies, and the best spey instructors and guide staff in the business. If you would have asked a couple of weeks ago about late June to mid July 2013 we…
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Just Another Beautiful Morning on South Andros
More Beauty on South Andros South Andros from Above Low Tide on the West Side Lunch Break
Selecting Bonefish Flies
How do you choose which bonefish fly to fish on any given flat? Keep these three basic variables in mind – color, size/weight and sizzle! Color Most of the time, you want the color of your fly to basically match the color of the flat. The match doesn’t need to be exact, but it should…
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Simms Coldweather Shirt Review
The Simms Coldweather Shirt is not an incredibly technical piece of fly fishing gear. It’s a simple, well-designed and constructed, ultra-comfortable shirt that you’re not going to want to take off…ever? Pros The Simms Coldweather Shirt is a polyester faced, polyester micro-fleece lined flannel shirt. The polyester makes it lightweight and quick drying – but it’s…
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Organize Your Gear
Jordan Sly is back today with a simple tip that’ll make your angling life just a little better. Organize Your Gear at Home Go through and organize all your gear while you are warm, at home, with a beverage in hand. It’s a lot less problematic to realize you are almost out of 12 pound…
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Josie’s Boat
One of the great opportunities that fishing provides is the ability to learn about the people in the places we visit and fish. Almost every guide at one time or another tells us stories that take us further in the local culture. At Andros South, our guide Josie Sands stores his handmade sailboat by leaning…
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Stripping
And once again, Louis Cahill delivers a fantastic, unique image of something we’ve seen thousands of times before. More on Bonefish and Stripping Andros Island Bonefish How to Strip Set A Story About Stripping
3 Good Articles
It’s been a while since we’ve suggested some other folks’ posts to read! If you like fly fishing, we think you’ll like these articles. 3 Tips for Better Bonefishing. From our friends at Gink and Gasoline – we particularly like ‘change the retrieve before the fly’. Fishpond Westwater Boat Bag Review. Well done write-up from…
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Western Alaska Trout Fishing Techniques
We are really lucky at Alaska West to have an incredibly varied fishery for rainbow trout. We fish many different parts of our river using a bunch of different techniques to catch a wide range of trout. We use so many different techniques that you couldn’t hope to cover them in a single post –…
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