As in, yards from the mouth of the Dean River. Gotta love it! More on Dean Steelhead Jeff Hickman’s Steelhead Rig Dean Steelhead Fly Roundup Nice Fish, Rob
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What Not to Do
In our never-ending quest to provide you with useful fishing tips, we’ve tried a whole bunch of different formats to communicate ways you can fish better and have more fun doing it. Bulleted lists, eloquent prose (ahem), videos, photo illustrations – we’ve tried it all. We’ve also told you what to do by telling you…
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Alpaca Wool Socks – Why We Like Them
We try our best to give our readers quality recommendations on fishing gear and techniques, and there’s nothing better than when our readers do the same right back! Longtime newsletter subscriber Loren Irving got in touch a couple of months back with a recommendation on some socks that he discovered. We got ourselves a pair…
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Bonefish Haiku Contest – Win Abel Nippers
We haven’t run a contest in a while. We have some extra Abel nippers floating around. It’s bonefishing season. We love haiku. Hey, let’s run a bonefish haiku contest and send the winner a free set of Abel nippers! Contest Rules Submit a haiku about bonefish or bonefishing via a comment on this blog post….
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Fighting Fish from a Boat
Alaska West guide Spencer Dixon is back today with some more tips based on his time guiding in Alaska. If you ever fish from a boat, today’s post is for you. Fighting Fish from a Boat Our guides at Alaska West are known for their ability to adapt to every fishing situation, keeping our anglers…
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Eat.
When you put your fly in front of multiple bonefish in a fishery like ours on South Andros, they fight over it. This is a good thing. More on South Andros Bonefishing Rookie Goes Bonefishing The Unspookable School Lots of Wading
Twitching Skaters
Fishing a dryline and skater for steelhead rules. Hitched muddlers. Bombers. Big foam creations—whatever. Love it all. There’s just something magic about the way our big, hot, Dean steelhead respond to the dry and the fact they tend to absolutely crush them makes the whole business of surface fishing even better! For those who agree,…
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Nice Fish, Mike and Ed.
Want to catch a fish like this one? We have space available in a couple of our prime king weeks at Alaska West next season. Drop us a line to learn more.
4 Reasons to Fish Andros South in the Fall
We absolutely love spending time on South Andros Island in the fall, and if you’re considering a bonefishing trip we think you should join us between now and the end of the year. Here are 4 reasons why. Why You Should Fish Andros South in the Fall Very little angling pressure. Somehow it’s remained a…
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Really Heavy Skagit Heads
If you followed our blog much this summer, you may remember that we ran a series of king salmon spey rod reviews based on our experience fishing during the early season at BC West. If you missed that series, here’s the wrap up post. We tend to follow spey tech pretty closely, but in the…
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