We love wild salmon. We all know that farmed fish wind up escaping into the wild. We’re more than a little freaked out about genetically modified salmon being farmed in any piece of water connected to…well, any other piece of water. Aren’t invasive Atlantic salmon in the Pacific Northwest bad enough? Trout Unlimited is leading…
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Chile Fishing Report: February 2011
Our second trip of the year started out as usual at the always windy Balmaceda airport. The group of five arrived a day early to ease into the 10 day trip ahead. This group consisted of Jr. and Diane Stelzer, Marvin and Gloria Fishman, and Doc Thompson a guide from New Mexico who was hosting the trip….
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Using Drag – Steelhead and Chinooks
Scott Baker-McGarva, the man who runs our fishing program at BC West, has some thoughts for us today on actually making use of that amazing drag system that came with your big game reel. Drag? Drag from the Reel? Today’s big game reels are amazing, what with cork disc drags, Teflon, Rulon and sealed, multi-ball…
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Bonefishing.
Sam Spillane, on a flat on South Andros, ties on a fly with mangroves in the background. Louis Cahill took the picture. More Pictures from Andros Island Perfect. Cuda Teeth A Little Overcast
Need a Pre-Game Warmup?
We have a whole bunch of folks headed to Alaska West and BC West this summer, looking forward to chasing king salmon and steelhead making spey casts with two-handed rods. We’ll have some of the best spey instructors in the world on site during our spey schools, but some (very wise) anglers may want to…
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Nap Time.
Kevin got a little sleepy during a long day on the river at Alaska West this summer. He found the nicest place to lay down – with neatly matted grass and the perfect view of a spawning bed… More on Life in Alaska Guidespeak Camp Dogs Facial Hair
Idylwilde Flies for South Andros
Look, we didn’t mean to have two posts in a row about Idylwilde flies. Somehow our Minister of Propaganda and our Triple Director of Alliances got their wires crossed – these things happen! So on with today’s post… Michael White is a friend of ours. He reps Idylwilde flies to finer fly shops in the Southern Rockies….
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Silvey’s Tandem Tube – How to Rig It
Installment #3 is a very special episode in our tube fly rigging mini-series by Eric Neufeld. It’s about a fly called Silvey’s Tandem Tube that requires some special attention in order to perform its best. Brian Silvey has a series of Idylwilde tube flies – the Tandem Tube, the Tail Light, and the Tube Snake…
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Andros Island
Our home at Andros South is South Andros Island. Andros Island geography can get a tiny bit confusing, so today we’re just going to tell you a bit about our island. Andros Island Andros Island is the southwest-most island in the Bahamas, and the biggest island in the Bahamas, and the least densely populated in…
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It’s All About the Sweep
Brian Niska continues his series of spey fishing tips, taking us step-by-step through the elements of a spey cast. The topic of the day is the sweep, and in spey casting there is no topic more important. It’s All About the Sweep The sweep is the part of the speycast where rod load is generated,…
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