Michael Gracie got to spend some time at Andros South a couple of weeks ago fishing the Sage 790-4 Xi3. Michael was one of the cast of characters at our first Deneki FIBFest – a casual gathering of folks who write about fly fishing online. He writes a great blog about fly fishing, finance and…
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Gear
5 Non-Fishing Items to Bring on Your Trip
In the run-up to any destination angling trip, lots of attention gets paid to which fishing gear to bring along. Rods, reels, lines, waders, raincoats, pliers…all that stuff is really important of course, but bringing along a few key non-fishing items can make your trip just a little more enjoyable. Here’s our top 5. Disposable…
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Free Sage Xi3 Setup, Anyone?
Everyone who is signed up for our weekly newsletter on June 25 has a shot at winning a (very slightly used) Sage 890-4 Xi3 rod, a Sage 6080 reel and a matching Rio Tropical Clouser line. Really? Really. If you’ve been reading our blog over the past few weeks you haven’t been able to get…
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Larimer’s Reverse Marabou Tube Fly
One of Tom Larimer’s go-to flies these days for winter steelhead, summer steelhead and king salmon in Alaska is one of his own designs – the Reverse Marbou Tube. NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here to hear Tom talk about his steelhead and salmon fly on YouTube. The…
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Sage DXL Typhoon Boat Bag Review
Sage has recently released a new line of bags and packs they call their ‘DXL Typhoon’ series. We’ve written up their large waist pack in the past – we liked it. The past couple of weeks we’ve gotten a chance to play with the DXL Typhoon Boat Bag, and we think it’s pretty darned cool….
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Sinktip Secrets
George Cook is the Northwest rep for Sage, Redington and Rio. He’s done a boatload of fishing over the years using sinktips (especially on the Kanektok and the Dean), and today he stops by our blog in video format to chat us up about sinktips. Here’s what he covers: Sink rate and the ‘type’ system…
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Trevor Covich’s Streamer Rig
Trevor Covich has been working at Alaska West since he was in diapers. Well, close. These days Trevor splits his time between guiding at Alaska West and guiding at Chile West. Trevor loves fishing streamers for big trout in Chile, and today we present, in detail, the rig that Trevor uses when doing just that….
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Not Your Average Fly Box
Reason #21 that it’s fun to go fishing with Michael White: he brings a few flies along. These are all by Idylwilde, if you need to know. More on Flies Bonefish Flies – 5 Favorites for South Andros The Intruder The Mikey Prawn for Kings and Steelhead
Selecting Steelhead Flies
In the past month we’ve had Tom Larimer stop by our blog to give a 6-minute master class on spey casting anchor placement, and a 1-minute diatribe (well, for Tom it was a diatribe) on fishing your fly actively. Today we hear Tom’s thoughts on picking which steelhead fly to fish – especially which color to…
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Alaska Felt Sole Ban
Last month in Juneau the State of Alaska Board of Fisheries decided in a unanimous 6-0 vote to ban anglers from wearing felt soled boots in all Alaskan streams and rivers starting in 2012. Why Ban Felt Soles? Trout Unlimited and other conservation-oriented organizations have for some time now espoused that anglers do in fact…
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