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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Simms Harbor Shoes – Why We Like Them
WARNING: This is not a very technical review. Simms launched their line of Gore-Tex footwear this year, and we’ve been spending a lot of time since wandering around fishy places in their Harbor Shoes. Are they revolutionary, containing some incredible new fishing technology not present in shoes made by ‘actual shoe companies’? Nope. We like…
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BC West Fishing Report: July 9 – 16
Jeff Hickman was welcomed back to the Lower Dean with a beauty 25lb Chromer on his 3rd cast! The rest of the crew of Steve Grover, Jim Greenleaf, Rob Sims, Frank Salmick, Matt Tofanelli, Thatcher Beaty, and Klint Borozan all found varying degrees of success early in the week. Jim Greenleaf seemed to only catch…
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Rainbow Trout Flies – 5 Favorites for Alaska
As we mentioned on Friday, it’s trout time at Alaska West. Late July trout fishing rocks! If you’re headed to Alaska West to chase our legendary leopard rainbows, here are 5 flies that we think you should bring along. Idylwilde makes some pretty awesome trout flies – these are all available from your local Idylwilde…
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Alaska West Fishing Report: July 8 – 15
With three father and son pairs joining us during week 5 of the season it felt like family week. Chuck and Charlie Domenici joined us again. It was great to see Charlie after a few years away and he’s still getting it done. John Russell and sons Eric and Andy also joined us again, and quickly got…
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