The home flats are even beautiful on a cloudy day. [Karen Wilken is part of the Sage/Rio/Redington crew at Andros South this week. She’s got one more day on South Andros before heading home to the snow in Seattle. Here’s her report from yesterday.] The knock on the door came at 6:00am as usual. After…
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Swinging for Kings
Big Andy, you remember Mr. Kingsley? Mr. Kingsley – Big Andy. Photo: Cameron Miller Our front yard at Alaska West is the Kanektok River. The Kanektok is, like other rivers in Alaska, an amazingly consistent, productive, varied fishery. However, unlike any other river in Alaska that we know of, the Kanektok provides a unique opportunity…
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Podcasting with Matt Hynes
“Damn it, another chromer!” Matt Hynes at his office on the Kanektok Photo: Cameron Miller Matt Hynes. Alaska West guide in summer. Chagrin River Outfitters guide in fall, winter and spring. Fly tier extraordinaire. Matt’s one of the most technical guides you’ll have the opportunity to fish with, and oh by the way, he’s not…
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Simon Gawesworth on Andros South
Just another FarBank/Andros South dolphin rescue. [Simon Gawesworth is representing the Rio side of the equation in this week’s FarBank equipment testing / photo shoot at Andros South. Here’s his report from Wednesday. It’s a good one and not your average fishing report – read on.] I am not sure if the Weather God felt…
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Paul Johnson’s News from South Andros
Paul Johnson and friend [Paul Johnson is part of the Sage/Redington/Rio team doing some product testing at Andros South this week. Here’s his report from yesterday.]Andros South…..Day 3… Today was different from yesterday in a couple of ways. One, the wind was back…not sure what God I didn’t appeal to last night…could have been many, but…
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Karen Wilken’s Top 10 (Invalid) Reasons Not To Go On A Guided Trip
Pictured: Ellie – Half Cop / Half Guide / Half Master Joke Teller A day with him in South Andros is a whole bunch of good fishing….plus, the accent is relaxing….. [Karen Wilken from Redington is at Andros South this week with Paul Johnson from Sage and Simon Gawesworth from Rio, doing some product testing. Here…
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Dispatches from Andros South
‘Look mon, if you don’t cast right now…’ This week at Andros South we’re hosting our friends Paul Johnson, Karen Wilken and Simon Gawesworth of Sage, Redington and Rio for a little product testing/de-icing session. Paul, Karen and Simon will be checking in with the blog throughout the week with some updates from their stay….
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Dec Hogan’s King Rig
Photo: Cameron Miller Dec Hogan has been a legend for years in the Northwest anadromous fishing world. An amazing guide, angler and instructor, Dec is also the author most recently of A Passion for Steelhead. Dec will be returning to Alaska West this summer from June 13 – 20 to host our spey instruction program…
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Flying to the Dean
For our 2008 season at BC West, we changed our changeover program so that guests transfer through Bella Coola rather than through Campbell River as they had in the past. We made this change primarily to minimize the length of the final charter leg, which makes our transfers much more comfortable and predictable in the…
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Flats Fishing for Barracuda
Many bonefish anglers in the Bahamas think of barracuda as that not-so-desirable species that you sometimes troll for when the weather is bad. At Andros South we disagree. We regularly see barracuda on the flats, and in fact trolling for ‘cudas is very unusual on South Andros. If you’re poling down a flat, have that…
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