If you’ve spent any time at all around our web site, you know that we’re kind of nutty when it comes to spey fishing. If you’ve followed our first few seasons operating at Chile West, you also may know that there are some pretty incredible king salmon down there. We’ve been catching these chinooks on…
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Cool Weather Bonefish
OK, so what do these 4 pictures have in common? Yeah, they’re all shots of pretty darned nice-sized bonefish. But what else? Notice how Nobody in these photos is wearing shorts and T-shirts? There’s no sweat on anyone’s brow? You could even say that these guys are bundled up? These shots were all taken during…
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Silver Salmon – 3 Reasons to Love Them
There’s billions of them. OK, not billions, but it’s putting it mildly to say that fishing for silver salmon at Alaska West is a ‘numbers-oriented’ fishery. We catch lots and lots of them. They eat poppers. And pollywogs. And wet flies and…well, in certain circumstances, pretty much anything. Yes, certain flies work better than others…
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Facebook Photo Contest Winner
We’re happy to crown Jason Burgett the winner of our first-ever Facebook photo contest. Jason visited us at Alaska West this past August to chase silvers and rainbows, and he submitted this gem of a picture on our Facebook page. Yes, we did say that hero shots of big fish aren’t necessarily what we’re looking…
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Nice Fish, Jerry.
Jerry Arnold is a good friend who has joined us at three of our operations in both hemispheres. When he came up with this beautiful hen steelhead fishing at BC West on the Dean River this past summer, we were just as excited as he looks in this picture. Nice fish, Jerry! More Nice Fish…
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Nice One, Bruce.
Here’s our buddy Bruce Chard with a nice bonefish. West Side, Andros South, Josie on the push pole – not the first time this has happened. Stuff You Could Use To Catch One Like This Sage Xi3 4 Favorite Flies for South Andros Simms Flats Sneakers
Oh My.
We recently came across another picture of our friend Jason and the rather ludicrous Chinook/king/giganto salmon with which he had a pretty favorable encounter at BC West on the Dean River a couple of years back. Chinooks this size on the Dean get hooked fairly regularly by fly anglers, but landing them is another story…
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What Is This Fish?
Early in our Research and Development program in Southern Chile, one of our guides, Garrett Sullivan, caught this exceptional fish. We took some shots and released it, thinking “man, that was an awesome brown”. When we got home, we sent some pictures around to a bunch of folks, and maybe half of them responded saying…
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A Fish Story from Chile
You might have heard that your fearless editor has just returned from a real good trip to Chile West. Today’s post is one of a bunch that we’ll run as a result of that trip, and it’s a fish story, plain and simple. The second-to-last day of our trip we did some walk and wade…
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Awesome Brown Trout
Your fearless editor has just returned from a super-great trip to Chile West. We’ve encountered some pretty cool fish in Southern Chile, but this one caught outside La Junta last week pretty much takes the cake. It’s not near our biggest Chilean brown, but man, check out those spots. If you follow us on Facebook,…
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