When more than 80 of you really thoughtfully wrote up your steelhead rigs for our free Bougle contest, you helped created a really cool resource. Already more than 1600 unique anglers have checked out that page, and they’ve no doubt gotten some new ideas on steelhead rigging, at the very least. Looking at all those…
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5 Things Your Guide Wishes You Would Do
Today’s post comes from a conversation with a relatively new guest at one of our lodges. He’s a super guy, and he wanted to be a ‘great dude’ – someone our guides would really enjoy spending the day with. His quote to your humble editor was something along the lines of “I just wish I…
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Looking for Bonefish
It’s a quintessential part of the flats fishing experience – standing on the deck of a boat, scanning the flats for fish. Louis Cahill once again provides us with an uncommon view of something we do a lot. More on Looking for Bonefish 4 Core Tips for Spotting Bonefish What to Look For, In What…
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Best Trout Fishing Posts of 2012
We continue our end-of-the-year/beginning-of-the-year series on the best posts of 2012 with a list of the 7 best posts about trout fishing we wrote in 2012 – according to what you guys read, that is. Two handers and trout seemed to be a bit of a thing in 2012… Best Trout Fishing Posts of 2012…
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4 Ways to Fish Dry Flies in Alaska
Everybody loves fishing dry flies. There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program. Here are 4 ways…
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Bougle Contest Winner – Tom Ehrhard’s Steelhead Rig
We’re thrilled to present to you the winner of a brand new Hardy Bougle, courtesy of our ‘Tell Us About Your Steelhead Rig’ contest. Tom Ehrhard took this one home with his entry that appears in its entirety below. Before we get to Tom’s rig though, we need to say a few things. You folks…
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It’s Big Out There
The close up, wide angle shots of anglers landing bonefish show you a lot of detail and that’s cool, but they can make it easy to lose track of how big the landscape is on the flats of South Andros. That’s why we like this Tosh Brown shot of a tiny weeny little sliver of…
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Deneki in the Drake
Whoa, we’re in the Drake! On page 34 of the just-released winter 2013 issue of the Drake Magazine, you can find a profile piece on none other than your humble editor. Thanks so much for Jesse Robbins for the words, Ed Sozinho for the photo, and Tom Bie at the Drake for the real estate!…
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Rainbows and Silvers, Living Together
A recent conversation with a very experienced Alaska booking agent reminded us of a really unique aspect of our fishery at Alaska West that we sometimes take for granted – we have world class fishing for silver salmon and rainbow trout, at the same time, on the same stretch of river. Silvers and Rainbows –…
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Best Steelhead Fishing Posts of 2012
…and our end-of-year/beginning-of-year series of our top posts of 2012 continues! Today it’s all about steelhead fishing. If you were out for the holidays – over the past couple of weeks we’ve already given you our top gear posts and our top bonefishing posts. Best Steelhead Fishing Posts of 2012 Sage 8136-4 ONE Spey Rod…
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