When you’re making spey casts in the Skagit style, try to keep your hands as close to your body as possible! Ed Ward, long-time guide at Alaska West and one of the fathers of Skagit-style spey casting, has been called “the man who can spey cast inside a phone booth”. That’s a bit of an…
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Deneki Blog
This Should Work.
More on Bonefish Flies 5 Favorites for South Andros Readers’ Favorite Bonefish Flies Your Approach to Tying
Our Fly Fishing Gear Page
Did you know that this page on our web site neatly categorizes the posts about fly fishing gear on our web site – 168 of them so far? Reviews, expert rigs, gear-related tips, favorite flies…it’s all there. Our favorite lens for the flats? Check. How to rig tube flies? Got it. Dana Sturn’s steelhead rig?…
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Pacific Salmon Feeding in Fresh Water?
Pacific salmon don’t feed in fresh water – everybody knows that, right? Wrong. Brian Morrison, fisheries biologist and author of several recent posts on fish lifecycles in Western Alaska, is back today to tell us about some recent research findings that prove conventional wisdom wrong. Read on. Salmon Feeding in Fresh Water? Many anglers have…
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Keep Your Hooks Sharp
Spencer Dixon was a first-year guide at Alaska West this year, and everybody who met him was blown away by his skill, his work ethic, his enthusiasm and his fishiness. Turns out Spencer can write too! Here’s the first what we hope will be a long series of posts from him. Thanks, Spencer! The Importance…
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Bonefishing Words
Here are three words we think of what we think about bonefishing. Hot. Blue. Speed. What are the first three words that come to mind when you think about bonefishing? Leave us a comment and let us know! More Reader Input 30 Favorite Travel Tips 51 Things Never Say to Your Fishing Partner 4 Things…
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Drying Room
At BC West we have a nice, cozy drying room for your jackets, boots and waders. It’s all you could ask for – a comfy hand-hewn bench, drying racks, a heater and a whole lot of character. We get an awful lot of warm sunny days on the Dean, but when it’s chilly and/or rainy,…
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Bulk Hooks
Big fish. Big water. Bigger grabs. You know you’re gonna go through more than a few hooks when fishing deep for salmon and steelhead. Here’s why we like to buy in bulk for rigging tube and stinger-style flies.: Cost savings. While the average cost-per-hook price is relatively the same for hooks purchased in 25 or 100…
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Multi-Species Flats Tourney
Want to change things up a bit on your next trip to the flats? Have yourself a multi-species tournament day! It’s really fun… Background On a recent trip to Andros South, we awoke to a really, really cloudy morning. We had a pretty experienced group of anglers at the lodge and we knew we could…
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Shadow
Just another cool picture by Louis Cahill from South Andros Island! More from Louis on Andros Tailing Bonefish Little Gallery Bonefish Magazine