Don’t forget your Simms Flats Sneakers. South Andros is a fishery where your footwear matters. We do a ton of wading. Some of our flats have nice, hard white sand bottoms where you could wade barefoot if you wanted to. Other flats have mud, turtle grass, sea urchins and chunks of limestone. You don’t want…
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Gear
Wind Your Backing On Tight
Backing bulges are bad. If you’re chasing big fish, make sure you wind your backing on tight. King salmon, and Dean River steelhead, and dorado, and tarpon can pull really hard. If your backing isn’t wound on tight, the force of a fish’s run can cause the outer layers of backing to pull through loosely-wound…
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Ask The Experts: Most Unusual Item In Your Boat Bag
Got anything unusual in there? As we announced last week, we’ve started an ongoing series of posts in which we ask a panel of expert fly anglers questions, and report the results back to you. The first question that we posed to our panel is a really simple one: What’s the most unusual item in…
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Fly Fishing Retailer – We’ll Keep You Posted
Standing around, talking about gear – it’s what FFR is all about. Photo: Cameron Miller Each year during the fall, fly fishing equipment manufacturers, reps, distributors and dealers gather in Denver for Fly Fishing Retailer. ‘FFR’ is a 3-day industry trade show that serves as the launch pad for pretty darned near all new equipment…
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Wading Boot Roundup
A lot of old wading boots are still in use. Photo: Ric Fogel/Sportfolio A couple of weeks back we asked you about your wading boots. With recent news about aquatic invasive species, we wanted to know what kind of soles you’re using on your boots, and why. We got a really wide range of responses…
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Reels For Bonefishing – 5 Things To Look For
Your most important piece of gear on the flats. Photo: Ric Fogel/Sportfolio Let’s face it – in an awful lot of angling situations, your reel is just a line holder. We love freshwater fish like fat rainbow trout, but the fact is that most (not all!) freshwater fish can be controlled just fine with a…
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Ultrathon Insect Repellant: Why We Like It
Good fish, bad bugs. Photo: Cameron Miller Like it or not, when you leave the cities and travel to pristine remote fisheries, you’re likely to encounter some bugs. Whether it’s mosquitoes in Alaska, ‘no-see-ums’ in the Bahamas or horseflies in BC, little flying critters can be a pain in the behind. We’ve tried every bug…
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George Cook on Sinktip Selection Through A King Season
Hey, George caught one! Photo: Cameron Miller George Cook is one of the pioneers of spey fishing for king salmon in the Northwest, and he’s one of our best-in-the-business spey instructors during our king season at Alaska West.George has shared with us a bunch about his philosophy of king fishing in the past, and today…
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StoneBridge Bamboo Fly Rods
Gary Berenson is a good friend who has spent a bunch of time at our lodges. Gary’s a super guy, and among other things he builds incredible bamboo fly rods under the name StoneBridge Rod Company. Gary’s rods are beautiful. His detailing and overall level of craftsmanship are as fine as you’ll see anywhere, period….
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Wading Boots: What’s On Your Sole?
Our boots: still mostly felt, but cleaned well. As awareness has built up over the past few years about aquatic invasive species and the damage they can do to our fisheries, anglers have been paying a lot more attention to the soles of their wading boots. Felt soles on wading boots are a great way…
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