Adam Jackson is a long-time guide at Rapids Camp Lodge, our fly-out operation on the Naknek River in Alaska. Want to know how Adam rigs up when he’s chasing the biggest and baddest of the salmon species? Read on! Make sure you read through the Commentary section – there’s a lot of meat in there….
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Archives for March 2014
Three Good Articles
Here are three good articles, on other web sites, about fly fishing, that we think you’ll like. Three Good Articles Suction Dredge Mining and Drift Boat Design. From the guys at The Open Fly Podcast. Google Street View Down the Colorado. Via Yukon Goes Fishing. Columbia Tributaries Designated Steelhead Gene Banks. Great news from Midcurrent….
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Steelheading Simplified
Today we have a few steelheading tips coming at you from our own Kara Knight. Kara is our lodge manager at B.C. West on the Dean River and knows a thing or two about swinging for steelhead. We asked Kara for a few tips she’s picked up from her time on the Dean that might…
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South Andros Mini Gallery – Peter Viau Edition
Peter Viau is a longtime friend and guest of Andros South. He really appreciates the whole experience of spending time on the island, and his photos reflect that – it’s not all about bonefish hero shots. Thanks so much to Peter for a great batch of shots! More Pictures from Andros The Mangrove Shuffle Wouldn’t…
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Wind on Your Right Shoulder?
Casting a fly rod with the wind blowing the line into your body is probably the toughest casting situation you can face. Yes, when you’re new to casting in the wind it can be a challenge to cast directly upwind, but a tight loop, high line speed and the right casting plane can all make…
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10 Popular Posts from 2009
Every once in a while we like to run a ‘Roundup’ post that really hits our archive – with links to articles that we wrote more than a year or two ago. Lots of you have started reading our stuff just in the last couple of years, and we wouldn’t want you to miss out…
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Reels
Just a cool shot of reels on the way to the dock in the morning on South Andros! More Pictures from South Andros Andros Mini Gallery – Tosh Brown Edition Andros Mini Gallery – Hollis Bennett Edition Andros Mini Gallery – Mama Sly Edition
Abel Hybrid Hemostats
Recently a good friend of ours threw a pair of Abel’s new Hybrid Hemostats our way to try out. We have tested a number of Abel products over the years and have been nothing but impressed by their functionality and design. We were very excited to try out the new Hybrid Hemostats and thought you…
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Single Handing for Kings
It’s getting to be that time of year when our minds start drifting off to thoughts of big Western-Alaska trout and chrome-bright pacific salmon. The Alaska fishing season will be here before you know it, and with it comes the earliest of the Pacific salmon, the king salmon. Kings might just be the baddest freshwater…
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Updated Fishing Reference Pages
We just finished a big update to our ‘reference’ pages – in which we keep all our posts on certain big topics nicely categorized for your browsing pleasure. If you’re on our web site you can always access these mid-way down the right hand sidebar, but why not have a look at the updates today?…
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