At IFTD in New Orleans this year, our friend Cameron Mortenson dragged us over to a display in the small business section – “you gotta check this stuff out”! The company was called SmithFly, and they make modular fly fishing gear. What’s modular fishing gear? Well, after IFTD the folks from SmithFly were nice enough…
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Gear
Fishpond Rodeo Rolling Duffel Review
As the owner and operator of three fishing lodges in remote parts of the world, there’s one topic that we at Deneki Corporate feel uniquely qualified to write about. We may or may not be the best in the world at casting into a 30 knot wind, or executing a cack-handed snap T…but we’re really,…
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Fishpond Blizzard Soft Cooler – Why We Like It
Warning: this is a review of a not-very-technical piece of fishing gear. We spent some time this summer and fall fishing with the Fishpond Blizzard Soft Cooler. It’s a medium-sized soft cooler that holds 18 cans of beverages, or maybe 6 cans of beverages and a couple of lunches. We like it. Here’s why. Easy…
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Sage 6119-4 TCX Switch Rod Review
It’s another chapter in the story of the Short Spey Revolution! Background Earlier this year we posted our review of the Sage 8119-4 TCX Switch rod – the heaviest in Sage’s line of very fast “long switch/short spey” rods. We’re totally in love with this rod; in fact your fearless editor has had a very…
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All About Bonefishing Reminder
Now that bonefishing season is upon is, we figured it was time for a reminder that we maintain a giant page on our web site with links to all kinds of articles we’ve written about bonefishing! It’s located right here. It’s better than it sounds. Have a look if you haven’t recently. As of today…
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Bruce Chard’s Barracuda Rig
Bruce Chard teaches bonefishing schools at Andros South – but even though he’s a master bonefish angler, he always takes some time to throw flies at South Andros Island’s incredible population of barracudas. When Bruce has ‘cudas on the brain, this is the rig that he reaches for. The Summary Ross FW 1090 – 9…
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Whitney Gould’s King Rig
We’ve got another post in our Expert Rig series today – in which we profile, in detail, how various expert anglers set up their gear to chase a particular species in a particular place. We’re really proud to have Whitney Gould on our guide team at Alaska West. If you don’t ask her about it…
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Bonefish T-Shirt Winner
My goodness, you folks made it really hard to pick a winner! We had 82 entries in our free bonefish t-shirt contest (you left a comment telling us why you want to fish Andros Island this winter; we picked the best comment), and the quality this time around was incredible. There were a good 15…
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Revo Water Lens Review
Introduction A few months back we got our hands on a pair of glasses from Revo that incorporate their new Water Lens – a polarized lens made specifically for open water. The model we’ve been fishing with is called the Guide. We’ve fished enough days with them that we feel competent to write a review,…
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Bonefish T-Shirt Giveaway
A few months back we had a lot of fun running a little contest for a free Salmon Grand Slam T-Shirt. We had these new t-shirts sitting in our warehouse, but didn’t have our web store up and running – so we decided to give one away. Well guess what! Our Senior VP of E-Commerce…
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