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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Dry Fly Fishing on the Dean
Dries for the Dean. Photo: David Lambroughton Our manager at BC West on the Dean River weighs in today on the wonders of fishing dries for Dean River steelhead. Dry Flies on the Dean As July turns to August, the waters of the Dean start to fall and the numbers of steelhead holding in 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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John Hazel’s Steelhead Rig
John Hazel knows his way around the Dean. John Hazel and his wife Amy own and operate Deschutes Angler Fly Shop and Guide Service in Maupin, Oregon. John is a renowned angler and guide in the Northwest, and has spent many a day swinging flies through famous runs on the Dean looking for steelhead. Deschutes…
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Conch Salad
Norman makes a mean conch salad. South Andros is one of the most unspoiled islands in the Bahamas. We’re surrounded by a pristine marine environment, and that means not only incredible bonefishing, but…fresh seafood! During your week at Andros South, you might eat snapper, grouper, crawfish or dorado, but you’ll definitely have some conch salad….
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Lake Fishing in Chile
Our lakes produce too. Although our standard program at Chile West is built around fishing 7 different rivers, there are countless lakes along the Carretera Austral that provide some great options too. Rainbows, browns and brookies can all be caught in the lakes in our region. As is the case with our river fishing, variety…
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South Andros Fisheries Part Two – The South
This is The South. This image covers an area 18 miles wide. There’s a lot of water here. Part two in our series on the four major fisheries at Andros South covers the massive area of keys and flats off the southern tip of South Andros – the area simply known as ‘The South’. Head…
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