Jeff Hickman is a mainstay at Deneki Outdoors, with a bunch of years under his belt working at Alaska West and Andros South. His main gig now is guiding folks around Oregon, but he also hosts a group of anglers during the first week of our season at Alaska West. Today’s he’s here to tell…
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Sage DXL Typhoon Backpack Review
We’ve written reviews in the past of a couple of items from Sage’s DXL Typhoon bag and pack series – the Boat Bag and the Large Waist Pack. Last month we got a chance last month to travel and fish with the Sage DXL Typhoon Backpack, and we liked it a lot. Today we’re here…
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Blue Skies and Palm Trees
South Andros bonefish are pretty awesome critters. Our guides are incredible. The lodge is nice too. But there’s also something to be said for the simple beauty of blue skies and palm trees. More Reason to Go to Andros South Offshore Fishing! 5 Non-Bonefish to Chase at Andros South Our Ridiculously Great Island
Lake Fishing with a Tough Backcast
George Cook is back today with some more video commentary on fly fishing lakes. The topic de jour is some techniques for dealing with a difficult backcast. In this video, George talks about The fact that some of the best spots in lakes, like bays, can have very tough backcast conditions How basic rollcasting can…
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Alaska T Shirt Winner
Wow. When we announced our “complete this sentence” contest for a free Alaska Grand Slam t-shirt, we never would have guessed that we’d get 86 responses. Thanks so much to everyone who participated. It was really, really hard to pick a winner. In the end we had to go with Abe Sorom, who have us…
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Slack is the Enemy
We’re happy to return to Brian Niska‘s series of tips on spey casting. For those of you new to our blog, over the past few months Brian has been taking us through some step-by-step tips on the spey cast. Topics to date have included Wade Shallow and Relax, Start with a Lift, Setting up for the…
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Trevor Covich’s Silver Rig
Trevor Covich is one of our go-to guys at Deneki Outdoors, owning key jobs for us in Alaska, the Bahamas and Chile. We asked Trevor to put together his favorite rig for chasing silvers at Alaska West, and he delivered that and a heck of a lot more. If you want to suck up the…
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5 Ways to Catch More Rainbow Trout
Catching rainbow trout at Alaska West is not all that difficult – in fact it’s easy to catch ‘some’. That being said, great anglers catch more, and great anglers catch the bigger ones. Here are 5 ways you can make yourself into a ‘greater’ trout angler in our part of the world. Mend less. Our…
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The Little Creek Bar
At Andros South, we launch our boats right at the mouth of Little Creek – a very protected spot that provides easy access to the East Side Creeks, the West Side, the South and our Inland Wading program. It just so happens that there’s a great local bar at the put in. It’s commonly know…
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Lake Fly Fishing Introduction
Today we begin a short series of videos about lake fishing, featuring one of the deans of modern fly fishing in the Northwest – George Cook. In addition to his day job repping Sage, Rio, Redington, Tibor and more, George hosts guests each year at Back to the Wall, a pair of private lakes in…
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