Wow! While working on some upcoming posts, your fearless editor just happened upon this little tidbit – to date we’ve had 1,321 comments on our site. We’re devoting today to thanking all of you who have left comments – we really appreciate it! This whole blogging thing is a lot more interesting when it’s interactive,…
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Simms Headwaters Tackle Wallet – Why We Like It
There seems to be a mini-trend going on these days in the world of tackle storage. Following the lead of our conventional angling brethren, fly anglers are starting to use soft-sided ‘wallets’ of various sizes and configurations. For example, Bill Lenehan wrote a great guest post for us about how he uses ‘worm wallets’ to…
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Nice Fish, John
Angler: John Jarosz Photographer: Louis Cahill Star of the Show: Mr. South Andros Bonefish More on Bonefish How to Catch Them How to Handle Them Bonefishing 101 – Free Download
BC West Fishing Report: July 16 – 23
July’s third group marked the arrival of quite a cast of characters – Andrew Bennett, Michael ‘Whitey’ White, ‘Smilin’ Bill Suggs, Rob Masonis, Jeff Nielsen, Jeff Sebenik, David Tye and Tom Levandoski. Water conditions were still on the drop from last week’s rain storm, and good numbers of steelhead (plus still more Chinooks!) were all over…
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Pinch Loops in Your Top Hand
Your fearless editor spent last week fishing two-handed rods for steelhead and chinook salmon at BC West on the Dean River. We had a stellar group of folks at the lodge, including Michael White, Simms and Idylwilde rep for the Southern Rockies. Whitey gave up another nice spey casting tip during the week, and we…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 15 – 22
The story for week 6 was that the kings just kept coming in! Normally this week is known as a great Grand Slam week, but this year it turned out to be a very good week for kings. This week we welcomed people from as close as Anchorage and as far away as New Zealand. Vince Moores and…
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Just Another Slab of a Trout
More on Alaskan Rainbow Trout Spey Fishing for Trout – Why 5 Reasons We Love Arolik Rainbows Mr. Hankey Produces
Cast, Step, Swing
We’re back with more steelhead fishing nuggets from Scott Baker-McGarva at BC West. This post contains the words “Jerry Wintle” and “Dean River” and that means that if you like steelhead, you should read it and learn! Cast, Step, Swing – Like Jerry Many, many moons ago, on my first trip to the legendary Dean…
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Top 5 Reasons to Go Bonefishing in the Fall
…on South Andros Island, at least. The biggest bonefish of the year get caught from October to December. It’s probably chilly in the fall where you live. The average high on South Andros in December is 79 degrees. You can work in a holiday trip with easy access to the island. Our new fall pricing…
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Bye Bye Bonefish
One reason that we like having Louis Cahill take pictures at our lodges – he captures common events in ways that are far from common. At Andros South, releasing bonefish is a very common event, but we’ve never seen it captured quite like this. More Louis Pictures from Andros South Andros Island from Above Welcome…
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