If you’ve got an off-season, store this stuff well. Photo: Cameron Miller We’ve got a panel of fly fishing experts that periodically answers your questions about anything remotely related to the world of fly fishing. When we asked our expert panel “What are your tops tips for storing gear in the off-season?”, we got some…
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Want To Go Bonefishing For Free?
It’s not as bad as it looks. Photo: Wayne Walts Sign up for our weekly newsletter by November 11th, and you’ve got a chance to win a free bonefishing trip to Andros South. Really? Really. We’ve done it before and we’re doing it again. This past July, Eric Dawson from Oklahoma City, OK won a…
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What It’s All About
You want to be in this picture. Photo: Alfie King It may not be cover-shot worthy, but we think this picture says an awful lot. Dean River. Two-handed rod. Blue-grey fish, literally the color of steel. Translucent fins. Sea lice. Not the smallest fish you’ve ever seen. Hard breathing (OK, you can’t see it in…
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Chile Guidespeak Glossary
“He was flogging the seam when I wanted him to bang the bank.” Over the past few months we’ve presented glossaries to help you communicate with our guides in Alaska and in the Bahamas. Today we focus on the foreign language spoken by Chilean trout guides. If you’re headed to Chile West in the next…
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Guides Doing The Little Things
Ed Ward, head guide and angling legend, doing important stuff. Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West our guests often tell us that it’s ‘all the little things’ our guides do that makes them exceptional. ‘All the little things’ can be a little hard to explain, so today we present a short Cameron Miller photo essay…
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How to Pack for Your Day of Bonefishing
It actually matters a lot what’s in here. Today’s post relates to packing and bonefishing, but it’s not about loading your big bag before you leave your house – you already know how to do that. Today we’re talking about your typical day on a bonefishing trip – it’s the first morning of your week…
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Silver Salmon Photo
Photo: Cameron Miller Just a very cool back-lit picture of another beautiful silver salmon from Alaska West. Cameron does it again, this time with an assist from Matt Hynes, hand model and guide. More Alaska Fishing Pictures Silver Salmon Like To Jump Pictures From Our 2009 Season On Facebook Wildlife On The Kanektok
Chinook Salmon in Chile
That’s not a small fish. There are Chinook in Chile? That’s right! Some 30 years ago, Chinook salmon were raised and planted in a few river systems in Southern Chile. The stocks were taken from two Washington State rivers, the Kalama and Cowlitz, both tributaries of the Columbia River. Since then these strains have naturalized…
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Rio Skagit Flight Review
Sorry, no product photo since the lines aren’t out yet. Here’s a guy casting! Photo: Cameron Miller Introduction and Warning This is a somewhat dorky, technical post about Rio’s new Skagit Flight, a shooting head for spey fishing. If you don’t care about spey fishing and would rather look at pictures of fish, click here….
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Trout Fishing: Streamers From A Boat – 6 Tips
A by-product of bank bangin’. At Chile West, we often fish out of a raft on moving water. One of the techniques we like to use is called “bangin’ the banks”. Whether you’re using a streamer or a dry fly, it’s an effective technique and a fast-moving game, like a shooting gallery on the move….
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