As many of you well aware, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Andros Island as a category three hurricane early Thursday morning. While the storm was responsible for widespread destruction across the Carribean and Southeastern United States, we’re pleased to report that South Andros weathered the storm favorably, with little foreseeable long term damage. Most importantly,…
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Steelhead Biology for Anglers
To outsmart any quarry, you must first understand it, and steelhead are arguably one of the least understood, and thus elusive, species out there. However, today we present to you a killer article written by Alaska West alum, and TU’s Wild Steelhead Initiative Organizer, Nick Chambers, on the biology of steelhead and how it relates to, well, catching…
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Trout Fishing – Solving the Riddle
Last week we ran a post asking you, our readers, what you’d like to read about on our blog. We received a bunch of great comments and questions, one of which is the topic for today’s post: “When things (flies, techniques) aren’t working, how do you solve the riddle?“ There are an uncountable number of variables present…
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Reason Number One to Fish the Naknek in the Fall
Deneki’s own Mike Sanders closes out our 2016 season at Rapids Camp Lodge with a lesson on why it’s a good idea to fish the Naknek River in the fall. Big, we mean BIG wild Alaskan rainbow trout. Wow. Nice fish, Mike! More from Rapids Camp Lodge Smolt Poppin’ for Rainbows Giants of the Naknek…
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Glass
Not a breath of wind, hardly a cloud in sight, and water so calm you can often hear the fish before you spot them. This is how you want your day to start at Andros South. These are the conditions serious flats anglers long for. Because the fishing’s so good? Hardly. In fact, glassy calm days…
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False Cast Short of Your Target
As anyone who has done a bit of flats fishing can tell you, bonefish can be a spooky fish. Seeing as how many predators swim in the waters where bonefish live, its no surprise they seem a little ‘on edge’ most of the time. However, not only are bonefish constantly on the lookout for predators under…
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Plan D Articulated Fly Boxes
From swinging flies for anadramous fish, to banging the banks with streamers, to skating mouse flies for trout, we fish a lot of articulated and stinger-style flies over the course of the year. However, until now we’ve yet to find a great way to store them. We’ve long been fans of simple Plano Boxes for housing…
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Bonefish Blues
When asked, “what color would you best describe bonefish to be,” most anglers would likely answer somewhere in the silver, gray-ish, or drab white category. That wouldn’t be far off from the truth of course. After all, it is the reflective quality of a bonefish’s scales that are responsible for their elusive, often ghost-like nature…
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Keep Your Rod Tip High on Shallow Flats
We talk all the time about getting ‘down and dirty‘ when fighting big fish – fighting with the rod tip low and to the side. Doing so allows the rod to bend deep into the butt section, where the most power is, enabling you to put the heat on big hard-fighting fish. The down and…
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Casting to Tailing Bonefish
You’ve stalked, searched, and finally spotted perhaps the most exciting thing in bonefishing, a tailing bonefish.. Now what? Tailing fish can make even the most experienced anglers weak in the knees. Not to worry, the next time you spot a tailer, follow these steps to make the best shot possible. Relax! Tailing fish are happy…
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