In Alaska, a day on the calendar doesn’t trigger Spring. It’s more of a sliding scale. In Alaska, you know it’s spring when you can feel the warm intensity of the sun. You know it’s springtime when snow berms melt during the evening. You know it’s springtime when windshield washer fluid is your best friend….
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Every Day is Earth Day
“If all the insects were to disappear from Earth, within fifty years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from Earth, within fifty years all forms of life would flourish. “ JONAS SALK Although we don’t believe we can prove the idea behind this quote, we acknowledge there is some sentiment…
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“Speyish” Green Butt Skunk
The Green Butt Skunk has accounted for numerous fish, and since its inception around the 1950s by Dan Callaghan, it has become one of the most effective and popular steelhead flies of all time. Dan Callaghan modified the original Skunk pattern and spiced it up with a green butt. Ever since many steelheaders will have…
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Deneki Chronicles: 6 Ways to Catch More Silver Salmon
In this episode of Deneki Chronicles, we visit the mighty Silver Salmon and how to catch more. Silvers are quite the rodeo, especially on a fly rod. Salmon season is just round the corner and we are excited! On the Kanektok River where we operate Alaska West, and on other rivers like it in Western…
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Guide’s Corner: Jeremy Inman
Some enjoy fishing. Some love fishing. Then there is Jeremy. Jeremy was born to fish. His passion and zeal for fishing are next level. With many hours of fishing, boating, and catching fish, Jeremy committed to guiding as a lifestyle and has developed quite the résumé; guides for bonefish in Hawai’i guides for trout and…
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New Boats are Great!
Yeah, we did a thing…we got new boats. The fleet at Andros South Lodge has been upgraded. Our friends at Hell’s Bay Boatworks designed our new skiffs for comfort, speed, and stealth and these boats sure fit the bill. Guests blessed our new boats by being the figureheads for the new fleet and came out…
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The Argument for Expensive Fly Rods
The current trend in fly fishing is for less expensive equipment. There are pop up rod companies sporting fly rods, that are “just as good if not better” than some of the more well known fly rod brands. With that, we’re here today to go against the grain and make an argument for expensive fly…
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Fly Tying: Graboid Leech
If you’re into fly tying or been around it for a while, there is a saying, ” there are no new flies, only different variations.” As much as that statement can be true, there are still tiers out that dip into their passion bucket of creativity and design something new. Jonathan Farmer is one of…
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Deneki Chronicles: South Andros Mini Gallery – Spotting Bonefish
Sometimes being able to see the bonefish is the hardest part. Checkout this week’s post from our Deneki Chronicles archive about seeing bonefish. We talk a lot about how to the untrained eye, bonefish can be pretty hard to spot. However, sometimes they stick out like a sore thumb! It’s no secret that light conditions have…
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Who We Follow Instagram
As Fly anglers, we don’t need a lot of inspiration to hit the road to go fly fish and when we surf Instagram there is a lot of inspiration out there. We’ve all seen it, great photos of the fish caught on a fly amongst the pristine backdrop of gin-clear streams and rolling mountains. It…
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