Want to not catch me? Read and learn. Don’t want to catch a bonefish? Pick one or more of these simple tips and you’ll be not catching fish in no time! Wear wading boots in the boat. If you’re casting from the boat and you’re wearing shoes of any kind, you won’t know if you’re…
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Fly Fishing Web Sites
You should be doing this instead of reading our blog. Photo: rustychinnisimages.com Can’t go fishing today? Might as well read about it! Here are a few of our favorite online options for reading about fishing, in no particular order… Moldy Chum. Multiple daily updates, wide range of topics, some pretty good humor. The Trout Underground….
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10 Tips – Swinging Flies for Kings
Tip #10, executed to perfection. Photo: Cameron Miller Planning on swinging flies for king salmon this summer, maybe on the Kanektok or the Dean? Here are some tips that may help. Cast across and slightly downstream. You certainly need to read the water you’re fishing and adjust accordingly, but in general if you’re fishing a…
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Bonefish Catch and Release Best Practices Part Two
If you like the looks of a healthy fishery, read and learn. Last week we published some information on catch and release bonefshing from our friends at Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. That post covered hooks and fight time. Today we hear about handling and predators. Handling Minimize handling all fish; slime and scales can be…
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Hustle and Fish
Photo: Rollcast Productions The guys at Rollcast Productions, the producers of Fishizzle, have just released their second film called ‘Hustle and Fish’. We’d tell you that it’s loaded with beautiful footage shot in HD, has great music, is pretty darned funny, and has raised the bar on fishing movies…but don’t take our word for it….
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Chile West Destinations Part One: Palena
A Rio Palena brown At Chile West we run a mobile program – working our way down the Carretera Austral or ‘Southern Highway’ through Chilean Patagonia, staying in four locations along the way. Today we start a four-part series covering each of our four destinations. Our first stop is Palena. In Palena we stay in…
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The Lower Dean River
Runs on the Lower Dean are big. Got a couple of hours? At BC West, we fish two sections of river during our steelhead season. They’re separated by the Dean River Canyon – that steep half-mile stretch of drops and small pools that has a lot to do with the strength, power and stamina of…
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South Andros Fisheries Roundup
Where to? You can’t get your head around how big it is. Over the past month we’ve run a series of posts on the four fisheries where we spend our time at Andros South. Any of of these fisheries by itself dwarfs the available water at your typical bonefishing lodge. Immense, highly varied, and loaded…
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Sage 8134-4 Z-Axis
Similar but different. Last year Sage released the 8129-4 Z-Axis spey rod, and it quickly became a popular choice for anglers looking for a powerful, versatile rod in a somewhat shorter format. In case you’re not familiar with Sage’s nomenclature, 8129-4 translates to “8 weight, 12 feet 9 inches, 4 piece”. This year Sage released…
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Steelhead Rig Roundup
Gear matters. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve done a series of posts on how some expert steelhead anglers rig themselves when they fish two-handed rods for steelhead on the Dean River, our fishery at BC West. For a few different outlooks on steelhead fishing and a lesson in rigging two-handed rods, have a…
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