Today’s Universal Fly Fishing Tip is one that most anglers know, but few actually follow through on. After a day or a week or fishing, make sure you dry out your gear well. Gear that gets stored wet gets nasty. Waders stink, rod socks mildew, flies rust and backing turns black. When you’re done with…
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Silver Salmon Fly Selection
We’ve written in the past about some silver salmon flies that we like to use at Alaska West on the Kanektok River, but that was in boring old words-and-pictures blog format. Today we’ve got a video featuring George Cook, Northwest angling mainstay and Sage/Redington/Rio rep, telling us about his approach to selecting flies for silvers…
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Sage Click Reels
In lots of trout fishing situations, you don’t need a drag system that’s capable of stopping a locomotive. There, we said it! Slapping a mega-reel on a lightweight trout rod isn’t going to result in an outfit that’s well-balanced. And really, you don’t need all that technology most of the time. If you’re targeting trout…
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Awesome Brown Trout
Your fearless editor has just returned from a super-great trip to Chile West. We’ve encountered some pretty cool fish in Southern Chile, but this one caught outside La Junta last week pretty much takes the cake. It’s not near our biggest Chilean brown, but man, check out those spots. If you follow us on Facebook,…
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Kings on the Swing
In the angling circles of the Pacific Northwest, there are still some doubters out there. We know because we run into them. “Kings don’t eat swung flies – you have to force-feed them nymphs.” “Sure, you might hook one, but then it’s like reeling in a mattress.” Folks who say those things have been fishing…
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Dog and Fish
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Camera Gear for Flats Fishing
Louis Cahill spent some time at Andros South last month shooting pictures of anglers having fun on the flats. He’s an actual professional photographer with 30 years under his belt, so we asked him for some advice on what kinds of photo gear he likes to use on the flats. Here’s Louis, in video form!…
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Beau Purvis Angling Photos
Beau Purvis is a well-traveled angler, a great photographer and a good buddy of Deneki Outdoors. Beau was kind enough to put together a post for us with three of his favorite angling photos and, most importantly, the back story for each. If you’d like to see more of Beau’s photos, you can check out…
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He Can Fish Too
Over the past couple of weeks you’ve seen some of Louis Cahill‘s handiwork with the camera – a result of his trip in early January to Andros South. Guess what – the guy can fish too! Louis poses proudly above with a nice West Side pig. More Fish Pictures Brightsides – A Really Unusual Alaskan…
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Bring a Raincoat: Universal Fly Fishing Tips
We’ve got another entry today in our series of universal fly fishing tips – pointers that hold true no matter where in the world you’re chasing fish with a fly rod. Any time, anywhere you’re going fishing, your should bring a raincoat. Alaska in June is pretty obvious…April in the Bahamas might be a little…
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