One of the biggest casting mistakes made on the saltwater flats is the dreaded ‘dropping of the backcast’. We all do it from time to time…but it sure screws things up when we do. Dropping your backcast happens most often in an effort to add distance to a cast, and the effect is quite the…
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Salmon Recipe from Jim Palmersheim
Today we continue our series of recipes from our team at Alaska West – a bunch of folks who get the chance to partake in beautiful fresh wild salmon quite a lot in the course of a summer… Jim Palmersheim quickly became a fan favorite on our guide staff a few years back. Not only…
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FIBFest Starts Now
Deneki FIBFest starts today. What’s FIBFest? It’s just a group of folks who like fly fishing so much that we take some time to write about it online. We’re going to chase bonefish at Andros South in the Bahamas, and then we’re going to write about it. You’ll see some posts about FIBFest here on…
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Scott Baker-McGarva, Welcome to BC West!
We’re thrilled to welcome Scott Baker-McGarva to our team at BC West this summer. Scott’s taking the reins as our head guide, and we’re mighty excited to have him. Alfie King will be around in a part-time role this season, and Paul Reid and Chris and Belinda Miller will round out the familiar faces in…
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Trevor Covich’s Streamer Rig
Trevor Covich has been working at Alaska West since he was in diapers. Well, close. These days Trevor splits his time between guiding at Alaska West and guiding at Chile West. Trevor loves fishing streamers for big trout in Chile, and today we present, in detail, the rig that Trevor uses when doing just that….
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Not Your Average Fly Box
Reason #21 that it’s fun to go fishing with Michael White: he brings a few flies along. These are all by Idylwilde, if you need to know. More on Flies Bonefish Flies – 5 Favorites for South Andros The Intruder The Mikey Prawn for Kings and Steelhead
Selecting Steelhead Flies
In the past month we’ve had Tom Larimer stop by our blog to give a 6-minute master class on spey casting anchor placement, and a 1-minute diatribe (well, for Tom it was a diatribe) on fishing your fly actively. Today we hear Tom’s thoughts on picking which steelhead fly to fish – especially which color to…
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Top Tips
We’re working hard to give you information about how to be a better angler – so far we’ve got 88 Fishing ‘Tip’ posts on our blog. We’ve got a really long list of topics that we’re going to be writing Tip posts about over the next few months – during Deneki FIBFest at Andros South,…
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Cover of Bonefish Magazine
OK, maybe there’s no such thing as Bonefish Magazine, but if there was a Bonefish Magazine, this could be the cover shot, right? Bruce Chard and Louis Cahill get ‘er done, on the West Side at Andros South, again. More Pictures of Anglers Holding Fish A Rainbow Trout Named Brightsides A Fat Kanektok King A…
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Johnny Spillane – Skier, Angler
Johnny Spillane, as you know, won 3 silver medals at the Vancouver Olympics earlier this year in nordic combined, an event combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing. As if being a 3-time medalist isn’t enough, Johnny’s first medal was the U.S.A.’s first ever in nordic combined. The icing on the cake? Johnny’s a fly fishing…
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