Trevor Covich is one of our go-to guys at Deneki Outdoors, owning key jobs for us in Alaska, the Bahamas and Chile. We asked Trevor to put together his favorite rig for chasing silvers at Alaska West, and he delivered that and a heck of a lot more. If you want to suck up the…
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Gear
Bonefish Rods for Different Conditions
Tom Larimer’s back today with some commentary on bonefish rods based on his trip to Andros South last month. We think Tom’s dead on – have a read. Bonefish Rods As conditions change during a day of flats fishing for bonefish, you need to change your tackle to be successful. In the early morning or on…
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Airflo Skagit Switch Review
Back in September we told you about Airflo’s new Skagit Switch Heads – a potential solution to the “nobody makes a modern spey line for my switch rod” problem. Since the early version of the head that we got our hands on at IFTD, Airflo has gone through a couple more iterations. Last month we…
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Rio Alloy Hard Mono
A few months ago, we ran a video featuring Bruce Chard that detailed his approach to tying leaders for flats fishing. If you fish on the flats, you really need to check out the video – we’ll give you another chance with a link right here. The foundation of Bruce’s leaders is Rio’s Alloy Hard…
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Ross F1 Reel Review
Back in September we ran an introductory post with information about Ross’s new F1 reel – with video straight from the show floor at IFTD. Brad Befus gave us all kinds of detail about the design of the F1, and that was awesome…but last month we got to fish one on the flats of South…
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Don’t Wear a Red Shirt!
Some lessons you just have to learn yourself. On day 1 of Deneki FIBFest at Andros South last month, your fearless editor decided to sport a nice new red shirt that was really going to look good in hero shots. The problem? You have to catch a fish before you can take a hero shot….
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Classic Flies Work Too
True, at BC West we like fishing big burly modern patterns like the Wombat, Intruder variations and Silvey’s Tube Snake. Don’t forget, though – the fish don’t know that big flies are supposed to be cool now. Classic patterns like the General Practitioner, the Dean River Lantern and the Lady Caroline still deserve a place…
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Tying Flies for Andros Bonefish
Tom Larimer was one of our attendees at Andros FIBFest 2011 a couple of weeks back. Tom’s focused mainly on steelhead as his day job, and today he draws a very interesting parallel between steelhead and bonefish in the realm of fly design. Thanks for the thoughts, Tom! Be Creative One of my favorite elements…
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Cantaria Beetle Fly Evolution
Over the years, Chile West manager Chris Price has been tying and fishing Cantaria beetle patterns of all shapes and sizes. Today we get to hear from Chris about the evolution of the beetle pattern. Cantaria Beetle Fly Evolution Back in the day, some 12 to 14 years ago, when a few of us first started…
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Fly Rods for Alaska
Lots of folks are in the middle of planning summer fishing trips to Alaska right now, and therefore lots of folks are asking lots of questions about which rods they should buy/pack/borrow to take with them on their trip to Alaska. We’ve written quite a lot on the topic of which fly rods you should…
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