The Simms Coldweather Shirt is not an incredibly technical piece of fly fishing gear. It’s a simple, well-designed and constructed, ultra-comfortable shirt that you’re not going to want to take off…ever? Pros The Simms Coldweather Shirt is a polyester faced, polyester micro-fleece lined flannel shirt. The polyester makes it lightweight and quick drying – but it’s…
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Deneki Blog
Organize Your Gear
Jordan Sly is back today with a simple tip that’ll make your angling life just a little better. Organize Your Gear at Home Go through and organize all your gear while you are warm, at home, with a beverage in hand. It’s a lot less problematic to realize you are almost out of 12 pound…
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Josie’s Boat
One of the great opportunities that fishing provides is the ability to learn about the people in the places we visit and fish. Almost every guide at one time or another tells us stories that take us further in the local culture. At Andros South, our guide Josie Sands stores his handmade sailboat by leaning…
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Stripping
And once again, Louis Cahill delivers a fantastic, unique image of something we’ve seen thousands of times before. More on Bonefish and Stripping Andros Island Bonefish How to Strip Set A Story About Stripping
3 Good Articles
It’s been a while since we’ve suggested some other folks’ posts to read! If you like fly fishing, we think you’ll like these articles. 3 Tips for Better Bonefishing. From our friends at Gink and Gasoline – we particularly like ‘change the retrieve before the fly’. Fishpond Westwater Boat Bag Review. Well done write-up from…
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Western Alaska Trout Fishing Techniques
We are really lucky at Alaska West to have an incredibly varied fishery for rainbow trout. We fish many different parts of our river using a bunch of different techniques to catch a wide range of trout. We use so many different techniques that you couldn’t hope to cover them in a single post –…
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Wading.
We just thought this shot by Louis does a great job capturing what wading for bonefish is all about. More on Wading for Bonefish Wading for Bonefish – 5 Tips Don’t Walk in the Clouds Wading in Shallow Water
5 Reasons to Fish Week One
You might have heard that Alaska West runs a spey instruction program during our king salmon season – we bring the best casters and teachers in the world to the lodge to help you get better with your casting. Charles St. Pierre is our longtime instructor during the first week of our season. Today he…
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Michael White to Join May Week at Andros South
World-Famous Angler Excited, Hopes to Land 8,617th Bonefish. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bozeman, Montana – Expert fly selector, Simms representative and Spey Team Six member Michael White announced today his plans to visit Andros South Lodge from from May 25 to June 1, in the pursuit of a variety of flats species. White will join Deneki Outdoors…
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In Water Hero Shots
Our post from last week about how to treat your fish better got shared a ton and generated a lot of really great discussion. That’s super cool – it’s great to see how much folks care about our resources. We heard from a bunch of folks with a reminder of one of the very best ways…
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