When fishing for bonefish, rarely can you expect a day entirely free of wind. In fact, most experienced flats anglers would agree that those completely calm days can be extremely challenging due to spooky fish. While a light wind can be your friend on the flats, there are times when it can be a little…
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Archives for January 2014
RIO Skagit iMOW Tips
RIO’s Skagit MOW Tips have been hugely successful since they launched three years ago, and for good reason. By combining floating and sinking sections of various lengths in sets of 10 foot tips, they allow anglers to fish at different depths, while maintaining the same overall length in their head/tip system. This has simplified things…
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Kyle Shea’s King Rig
As a guide at Alaska West, Kyle Shea gets to swing flies for king salmon in during his downtime. Here’s his rig of choice! The Summary Echo King 9130-4 Ross CLA # 7 Airflo Skagit Compact 660 The Detail 250 yards of 30 lb. Dacron backing, wrapped 4-5 times around the spool and tied with…
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Travel Tips for Anglers
With fishing lodges around the world, we receive a lot of questions from our guests about traveling with fishing gear. If you’re an experienced traveler, you understand that there are hardly any guarantees or set rules among competing airlines, and unfortunately this is out of our control. However, what we can do is share a…
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Fish On
Over 5 years of blogging and 1,733 posts, we’ve never before run a post entitled ‘Fish On’. Today, we right that wrong. More Cool Pictures from Andros Bonefishing Lunch Break Sunrise
5 Reasons to Fish for Early Season Bonefish
With the season well underway at Andros South, we have seen our share of great weather and plenty of bonefish. We have also had the opportunity to witness many of our guests catch their first bonefish! We run a long season and for those looking to book their first bonefishing trip, choosing the best time…
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Our Wishes for You in 2014
Bent rods Screaming reels Big smiles Quality time with friends and family Many, many great memories Have fun out there – and thanks for reading our blog! Memories from 2013 13 Habits of Highly Effective Anglers Spey Casting Videos Alaska West Sunset