Keep yourself informed. Photo: Cameron Miller We’ve added an option to sign up for a newsletter with weekly updates from our blog – previously your options were every day, or not at all. Interested? Just enter your email address in the ‘Weekly Email Newsletter’ section on the right-hand size of this page, click the Submit…
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More Than a Trip Report from Mike Racine
Mike Racine, with just one element of a superlative day Mike Racine is a long-time friend, and in the spirit of full disclosure, an investor in Deneki Outdoors. He contributed the great piece that runs today. We’ll like Mike do the talking. — “Fishing Reference Points” No this isn’t a technical article on targeting fish….
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Adam Tavender’s Steelhead Rig
Adam Tavender with some Dean chome. Photo: David Lambroughton Adam Tavender has been a part of Nakia Lodge on the Dean River since 1993. In early 2007, we at Deneki Outdoors had the good fortune to ‘take the torch’ from Adam and his wife Judy, and we now run the lodge as BC West. Having…
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South Andros Fisheries Part Four – Inland Wading
There’s a lot of water in the middle of this island. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve written about the three most conventional fisheries on South Andros – our east side creeks, The South and The West. Today we cover the most unusual of our fisheries – our inland wading. When you look at…
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Simms Headwaters Backpacks
A good choice for a day on the water. Photo: Simms Fishing Products Simms has come out with a whole bunch of really good new packs this year, and one of our favorites is the Headwaters Day Pack. Like its big brother the Headwaters Backpack, it’s a really well-designed pack, purpose-built for fishing. The feature…
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Chile Fly Fishing Tactics
This brown liked Chris’s tactics. Our environment at Chile West is changing day to day as we travel to new fisheries and different climates, so we change the methods we use to fish. We fish it all, from big, wide, deep rivers, to small shallow rivers or creeks, to lakes. We fish from boats or…
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What’s a Tent Lodge?
Home sweet home on the Kanektok Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West, we call ourselves a ‘tent lodge‘. We are not shy about what we are and what we’re not. We are a high-quality operation, right on top of an incredible fishery. We are not even trying to be a ‘luxury lodge’. We don’t have cognac,…
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Podcasting with Deneki
Andrew and Dec Hogan, talking things over. Photo: Cameron Miller Back in December, we posted an entry about a podcast on FlyandFloatFishing.com with an interview with Matt Hynes, veteran Alaska West guide. Today, we’ve got news on a Fly and Float Fishing podcast with yours truly, Andrew Bennett, talking about Deneki Outdoors. This is the…
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South Andros Fisheries Part Three – The West Side
Gary and Torrie look for West Side giants. At Andros South we launch our boats from the mouth of Little Creek, and that’s no coincidence – Little Creek provides the best access through the center of South Andros to the fabled West Side, and we take advantage of that access whenever we can. The West…
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Alaska Native Crafts from Quinhagak
The real stuff. Photo: Cameron Miller Alaska West is located just up the Kanektok River from the Yupik Eskimo village of Quinhagak. We’re really lucky to have good friends in the village. It’s a unique community, and we’re all there for fundamentally the same reason – incredible, consistent returns of salmon to the Kanektok each…
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