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Home Sweet Home
These are our lodge grounds at BC West. We’re tucked into the woods about a quarter mile from Cut Bank, a sweetheart of a run on the Lower Dean River. That’s our clubhouse on the right, which provides both indoor and outdoor venues for relaxing and telling lies stories about the day’s fishing. It’s well-kept,…
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…and He’s Off!
Have we mentioned that Dean steelhead go nuts when you hook ’em? More on Dean Steelhead Fish Thy Feet! Lettin’ One Swim Story From an Evening on the Dean
Top Steelhead Fishing Posts of 2010
It’s part 3 today in our series of ‘most popular posts of 2010’ articles. We wanted to make sure that you’re not missing out on any of the good stuff! Having already seen which trout fishing posts were deemed cool, and which bonefishing posts went viral, today you get to see which 10 posts about…
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Single Handed Rods Work Too
Although the majority of our guests at BC West fish two-handed rods most of the time, spey casting is not at all a requirement. Many, many steelhead were caught on the Dean for many years before the first spey rod showed up! Yes, there are reasons that people use spey rods, but single-handed fishing and…
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Eagle’s Nest
On the Lower Dean River below the canyon, many of the runs that we fish for steelhead and chinooks are rippin’ fast. Dean fish are strong, so they hold in water where a lot of other critters can’t. Just below the mouth of the canyon, however, is Eagle’s Nest – a giant bouldery glide that…
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Where Stories Are Told
The building at BC West with the most soul is, without a doubt, our clubhouse. It’s an old building with rustic log rafters, and yeah, every once in a while the roof leaks. But there’s no better setting for evening fish tales. This year a whole bunch of fish stories got told in the clubhouse,…
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Chow Time
Your fearless editor is on site at BC West this week (taking part in some of the best steelhead fishing on the Dean in years, at more than 4 times our catch rate from last year, but I digress). Our chef Belinda whipped up another amazing mid-day meal yesterday, and you get to hear all…
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Welcome to BC West
If you’ve spent much time reading about Deneki Outdoors online, or if you’ve spent any time at all at our lodges, you know that we’re really all about the fishing. Every once in a while, though, we make an improvement to the non-fishing side of the house, and those can be pretty cool too. Check…
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Yum.
At BC West, our top priority is chasing the hottest, most supercharged steelhead and salmon on the planet. Period. However…we eat really, really well! Our chef and manager Belinda puts out such good food that on more than one occasion, we’ve found ourselves standing in the middle of a beautiful run on the Dean…looking forward…
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