Years ago, our good friend and long time Alaska West guest, Bryan Whiting, first introduced us to a pretty interesting product called Rod Gloves. Originally designed for spinning rods, Rod Gloves are woven plastics sheaths made to slide over fully rigged rods to keep them from tangling. The concept is painfully simple, but like most…
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Stripping for Bonefish – 3 Techniques
When retrieving your fly for bonefish, most of the time a slow, medium length strip will get the job done. Strip speed should be roughly the same speed as the fish, which of course is dependent on how fast the boat is moving as well. But, sometimes even with a smooth retrieve, fish can follow the fly a…
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How Do You Travel With Fly Rods?
With fly fishing lodges around the world, you could say we do our share of traveling. And, you’d also be safe to assume we hardly go anywhere without our rods! We’ve learned a few tricks over the years while toting our gear from airport to airport, but today we want to hear from you! So…
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How to Catch Silver Salmon – Video from OPST
Last week our good friends at OPST released an awesome video featuring some amazing footage of silver salmon on the fly, and today we share that video with you! Surface takes, fishing tips, fly design.. This video has it all. If you’ve ever wondered what the big deal about fly fishing for silvers is, make…
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3 Random Bonefishing Tips
We’ve accumulated quite a few bonefishing tips on our blog over the years. So, today we figured why not add a few more? Here are.. 3 Random Bonefishing Tips Fish in the Mangroves – Loosen up! By all means try to keep your fish out of the mangroves, but if you can’t turn him away from the sticks,…
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Trout Spey Retrieve Methods – Video
Swinging flies for trout on light weight two-handers has gained quite a bit of popularity over the last few years, and for good reason.. It’s super fun! In a lot of ways, spey fishing for trout is very similar to swinging flies for salmon and steelhead. The casting is nearly identical, and most of the…
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from all of us here at Deneki Outdoors! We hope 2016 is your fishiest year yet. To wrap up 2015, we present you with the 10 most popular posts of 2015. Thanks for reading! Top 10 Posts of 2015 Nymphing Without an Indicator. The nitty gritty on bouncing without the bobber. Rigging With Wire…
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The Mini Puff – Tying Instructions
We’ve mentioned before that most of the time our bonefish on South Andros aren’t overly picky. However, we’d be lying if we said we don’t encounter our share of spooky bonefish from time to time. After all, they’re still bonefish! For the most part, we like flies that are big and light. However, we’re also…
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‘Good’ Weather is Relative
A question we get asked all the time in regards to our lodges is, “what’s the best time to go fishing in Alaska?” Our standard answer? “Well, it depends..” We’re aware that’s not the one word answer most folks are looking for, but the truth is, we’re really lucky to operate on an incredibly diverse fishery…
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Spey TV Episode 5: Critical Elements of Presentation
The good folks from Spey TV are back with another great video on the fundamentals of spey fishing. Episode 5 focuses on the finer points on presenting the fly throughout swing from spey legend, Charles St. Pierre. If you’ve ever wondered if you’re fly is doing the ‘right’ thing throughout the swing, we think you’ll…
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