One very common mistake made by first-time flats anglers is to leave the rod tip above the water when presenting the fly to a bonefish. When you’re fishing in rivers, you spend a lot of time with your rod tip high, mending line and waiting for a fish to eat. In fresh water, a ‘low…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Sculpin Rig
Last week you got to soak up some Alaska mousing knowledge from JEB Hall, courtesy of our expert rig post on how he approaches mousing at Alaska West. Today, our JEB trout series continues, with The Goods on how JEB fishes sculpin patterns. Read on! The Summary Sage 690-4 One Sage 4250 Reel Scientific Anglers…
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Top Bonefishing Posts of 2011
It’s become a tradition here at the Deneki blog – around the end of each year we run a little series of lists of the most popular posts on our blog during the year. We want to make sure you don’t miss out on the good stuff! Since we’re catching bonefish right now, we figured…
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Cool Coho Composition
We like hero shots as much as the next guy, but honestly we see so many of them that they all start to run together. That’s why we love hero shots that have something unique to offer, like this super cool backlit affair courtesy of our kick-butt photo crew at Alaska West! More on Silver…
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Alaska Non-Fishing Mini Gallery
Today we’ve got a mini-gallery of photos from Alaska West – none of which contains fish or fishing! More on Alaska West Introduction to Alaska West 5 Reasons to Chase Silver Salmon Mousing for Rainbows: 5 Tips
Keeping Sinktips Organized
Tom Larimer has spent just north of 4 million days on the water chasing steelhead and salmon, and he’s figured out some pretty helpful tips along the way. Today’s topic? Keeping your sinktips organized. It’s a video. Here are the highlights. Keeping Sinktips Organized Wrap the sinktip around your hand Tie it off with an…
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Alaska West and BC West 2012 Availability
Well, it looks like a lot of you are planning ahead for 2012! We’re way ahead of our typical bookings at this time of year, so we thought we’d give you a quick update on which weeks have available space at Alaska West and BC West during the summer of 2012. As you can see,…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Rodent Rig
J.E.B. Hall is more than just The South’s Cultural Ambassador to Alaska West. He’s an actual ambassador for Feel Free Kayaks, the author of the Southern Appalachian Fly Guide, and he takes real good photos. Most importantly though, he’s one heck of a fly fishing guide, and he knows his rainbow trout, and he’s one…
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Kast Steelhead Glove Review
A few months back we heard from the folks at a new company called Kast Gear. They make a few different products designed for fishing in the cold. They sent us a pair of their Steelhead Gloves to try out. We fished them in cold weather. We liked them. Here’s why. Design and Fishing Use…
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Nice Fish, Bruce
It’s been way too long since you’re seen a Louis Cahill picture of Bruce Chard with a nice bonefish from Andros South. So…here you go! Nice fish, Bruce. P.S. Bruce holds his bonefishing schools at Andros South in November and January, because he knows that the ‘winter’ months on South Andros are the best for…
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