It’s been a long winter and an even longer spring. With mandates being lifted, and people starting to come out of their COVID cocoons, people – especially anglers – are anxious to get outside. Across the world, people have been stuck in their homes trying to figure out a “new normal.” From buying your groceries…
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General
Target Species // Trigger Fish
One of the more popular fish to target right now are the subjectively beautiful trigger fish. While not a species we get to chase at any of our lodges, we know our guests and readers fish worldwide so we figured we would discuss anyways. There are over 40 species of trigger fish, most of…
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Another Feel Good Potcake Story!
If you have been to Andros South in the past 2 years you have met Midnight. Shy at first, Midnight quickly warmed up to our guests, especially the ones who weren’t above bribing her with a little food. Gary Interdonato is a regular at Andros South, often staying with us for consecutive weeks at a…
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Congrats Jeremy Inman!
Rapid’s Camp Lodge guide Jeremy Inman was recently selected by Trout Unlimited to be a Save Bristol Bay Guide Ambassador. Meghan Barker, who works for TU Alaska, gave the following description over what being a Guide Ambassador for Bristol Bay entails. “It’s the job of the guide to know the river. It’s the job of the…
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Fly Tying Friday // The DB Muddler
Renowned fly tier and fisherman, Stuart Foxall, is back with Jay Bartlett of Fly Fish Adventures to share another fly tying video featuring a favorite fly of Stuart’s, the DB Muddler. Stuart’s preferred way to fish the Muddler is to skate it for Steelhead and Atlantic Salmon. If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a…
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Angler Awareness // The Plastic Plague Follow Up
Earlier this year we posted on a device designed to help clean the ocean of some of the plastic that has accumulate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest of the 5 plastic patches that have formed in our world’s oceans. At the time, the device was not collecting plastic like planned. Then it…
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Your Alaska West Score Card
One of our favorite parts of fishing our friend Mr. Hankey are the tally marks you get from the teeth of the leopard rainbows that engulf it. Mr. Hankey was created by Alaska West alumni Jeff Hickman. The foam back on the fly keep it swimming up top and upright, but our favorite part is…
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Do You Like Naps?
After catching fish all morning, we don’t think there is anything wrong with a little afternoon nap in the Tunda. We are trying to bring siestas to Alaska. Who’s with us? More from the Tunda: 2019 Great Alaskan Heat Wave A Tundra Sunset America the Beautiful
BC West Mini Gallery
We received a request for photos from our lodge on the Dean River, BC West. The Dean is known for its famous runs of steelhead and king salmon. These anadromous fish must migrate through a very steep, whitewater filled canyon, in order to reach their spawning grounds. Over the years, the fish of the Dean…
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Bahamas Update
As I am sure you have heard, Hurricane Dorian, a high class 5 storm at the time, spent a day terrorizing the Bahamian Island’s of Abaco and Grand Bahama. Liz Fincher, who along with her partner Max Pushak, manage our lodge Andros South and have grown incredibly close with the loving Bahamian people. They put…
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