Deneki Blog

Jan 15 2011

Little Water, Big Bend

Isn’t it fun to find fat fish in skinny water? More Fishing Pictures Without Fish Beautiful Run in Chile Fun in the Sun Angler on Flat

Jan 14 2011

Sculpin Fishing from Alaska to Chile

Trevor Covich is one of our senior guides in Alaska and Chile. He loves tying and fishing sculpin patterns and he’s darned good at both. He put together a great piece for us on sculpin fishing. Sculpin fishing is an extremely versatile way to fish, and oh by the way, a great way to select…
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Jan 13 2011

Dining Room at Andros South

This is our dining room at Andros South. It’s really clean and very comfortable, we think. Fishing pictures hang on the walls, and there are bonefish on our curtains and our table cloth – we really like fishing, after all. We serve a lot of great food here – fresh crawfish, beef ribs, mahi mahi,…
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Jan 12 2011

Nice Fish, Kevin

Kevin Riley fishes at Alaska West every year, and his favorite time is the last week in August, when the silvers are plentiful and the trout get porky. A summer of chowing on salmon eggs and flesh will do that to a trout. Nice fish, Kevin. More Nice Fish Dean Chinook Chilean Chinook Kanektok Chinook

Jan 11 2011

Chum Salmon on Swung Flies

Brian Niska is one of our guest spey instruction gurus at Alaska West. He also owns Whistler Fly Fishing. He put together a couple of great posts for us about the hardest working fish in the river – the chum salmon. Brian’s teaching spey casting for two weeks at Alaska West this summer. One of…
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Jan 10 2011

Casting on the Flats – Top 3 Tips

We’ve given an awful lot of different casting advice to our guests at Andros South over the years. We could write a book! That being said, there are some issues that we see over and over, and some advice that we give over and over. If we had to pick our top 3 casting tips…
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Jan 09 2011

Do You Have Any Chubby Chernobyls?

Here’s Michael White, realizing that he’s happy to be traveling in good hands in Southern Chile. More on Culture at Chile West Rodeo! All Terrain, Chile Edition 10 Cool Things About Fishing in Chile

Jan 08 2011

Focal Fish: Check it Out

Every once in a while we find a great new fly fishing web site, and we tell you about it. Today is one of those days. Focal Fish posts one great fishing photo every day, taken by a guide who’s also a photographer. That pretty much tells the story. The pictures are awesome. You should…
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Jan 07 2011

Tic Toc

Today Chris Price checks back in from Southern Chile with a follow up to his “Pull, Don’t Push” advice from last week. Tic Toc When casting, we’re pulling not pushing, right? As we’re false casting and getting ready to let it fly, we often have a tendency to give a little extra oomph into the last…
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Jan 06 2011