A couple of months ago we re-added to the Deneki Outdoors team a fairly legendary character. Bryan Burke (a.k.a. “Smoothy” for you long-time Alaska West faithful) guided for Alaska West back in the days before Ricky Martin was even Livin’ La Vida Loca. Bryan’s back, working in our Anchorage office and helping anglers plan epic…
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Blue Holes
South Andros Island has a whole bunch of blue holes – spots where giant holes have formed near vertically in the surrounding limestone. Some of our blue holes are out on the flats and full of sea life (fishing in a blue hole can be awfully exciting). Others, like this one, are inland blue holes…
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Stock Your Fly Boxes
7 weeks until we open on the Dean. More on the Dean River Guest Post – an Evening on the Dean 5 Cool Things About the Dean The Rig Our Head Guide Fishes
3 Good Articles
In the past week we came across three fishing articles on other web sites that we thought you might be interested in. Have a look. Hatchery Programs Come Front and Center in Debate Over Wild Salmon. The Native Fish Society and the Pacific Rivers Council are suing over hatcheries on the Sandy River in Orgeon,…
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Alaska T-Shirt Giveaway
Here at Deneki Outdoors we’re pretty excited about the recent arrival of some super-cool original new T-shirts! One has an awesome bonefish design for the flats-inclined, and the other pays homage to the fabled Alaska Grand Slam (that would be all 5 Pacific Salmon, all in a day, all on a fly – like we…
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5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
We’re already getting excited about the king salmon we’re going to be catching at Alaska West and BC West starting the second week of June. These are not your normal king fisheries – we’re swinging flies for hot chrome fish just a few miles for the salt, and that really turns our crank! Anyhow, we’ve…
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Rio Alloy Hard Mono
A few months ago, we ran a video featuring Bruce Chard that detailed his approach to tying leaders for flats fishing. If you fish on the flats, you really need to check out the video – we’ll give you another chance with a link right here. The foundation of Bruce’s leaders is Rio’s Alloy Hard…
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Taking Kids Fishing
We’ve told you in the past that we love taking kids fishing, and for you family folks out there, we think it’s a pretty darned important thing to do. Today’s just a friendly reminder of one of the many things that kids bring to the table on the water – enthusiasm! More on Fishing with…
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Be a Steward.
Our friends at Recycled Fish do a great job getting the word out on taking good care of the waters we love. They’ve just launched a campaign encouraging folks to take a Sportman’s Stewardship Pledge. We think this is a great idea, so we’re passing on the word. Click right here to become a steward…
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Nice Fish, Beverly
Beverly Jefferson and her husband Don joined us at Andros South earlier this month for a little warm weather and a little bonefishing. Of the 10 anglers at the lodge during the week (9 of whom were men), Beverly came away with the biggest fish of the trip. We can’t say we were surprised –…
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