Ever need a good pair of breathable rain bibs for working in the yard, wearing on a wet boat ride, or just strolling around in the rain? We’ve got a solution for you if you have a old pair of waders laying around. After a while it becomes impossible to keep an old pair of…
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Spots.
Here’s our friend Brian Pitser, with a really heavily spotted leopard rainbow trout. More on Leopard Rainbows Introduction to Trout at Alaska West All About Trout Fishing – Link Page You Don’t Know Where the Big Ones Live
See You Soon
It’s hard to believe, but in three short months we’ll be back at it, chasing bonefish around the flats of South Andros Island. Come join Norman, pictured above, and one of his many, many scaled friends that inhabit South Andros! Click right here to get in touch and learn more.
Jordan Sly’s Trout Swinging Rig
Jordan Sly is back today, this time with another information-packed post for our Expert Rig series. Jordan Sly’s Trout Swinging Rig Here at Alaska West our river is just asking to have a fly swung through the water column. Swinging flies for trout is not only fun, but it is also often very effective and…
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3 Good Articles
Today we invite you to read three articles about fly fishing, on other people’s web sites, that we think you’ll like. 3 Good Fly Fishing Articles Swing the Fly. Much more than an article – it’s a whole online magazine about spey fishing! Click the big image to read. Landlocked Steelhead. Steven Brutger on two…
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We’re at IFTD / ICAST
Hey You Fishing Industry Folks We’re at the combined IFTD / ICAST trade show this week in Las Vegas! We’re pretty fired up about the combination of fly and conventional companies, all together at the biggest fishing trade show in the world. Looking forward to seeing you a bunch of you here – learning, figuring…
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Sculpin
This is why we fish a lot of large sculpin patterns for large rainbow trout at Alaska West. More on Large Rainbow Trout Really Rad Rainbows Nice Fish, Gary Western Alaska Trout Lifecycles
Try a Mono Running Line on Your Switch Rod
If you’ve read many of the posts about spey fishing on our blog, you know that a lot of Deneki-folk prefer mono running lines on our two-handed rods. There’s a lot of personal preference in running line choice for sure. Mono running lines have some drawbacks – notably a bit of a learning curve in…
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Trimming Spun Deer Hair
Jordan Sly is back today with another handy post on fly tying! Trimming Spun Deer Hair Spun deer hair is great for many things – adding buoyancy, creating bodies and heads – but it can be hard to get the right shape when trimming it. A flexible razor blade can not only help create a…
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Gripped By Kings
Steven Brutger fished with us at BC West last year – you can read the full account of his trip here. Since we’re right in the middle of our king/chinook season on the Dean, we figured it was a great time to run this great piece Steven wrote about the biggest fish in the river….
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