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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General
5 Cool Things About The Dean
We think the Dean River is a pretty darned cool place. Here’s why. The Takes. Crushing, searing, heart-stopping, drag-melting, 15-pound-Maxima-popping, uncontrollable, violent, I-can’t-believe-what-just-happened takes. The way Dean steelhead eat a fly is insane. This is the coolest thing about the Dean. The Scenery. It’s just one of the most beautiful places in the world. Tall…
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Jim Sirois – Dean River Author
We’re really lucky at BC West to have Jim Sirois as our friend and neighbor. Jim grew up in the little town of Ocean Falls, BC and had a very successful career in aerospace and manufacturing product development (!). He’s spent most of the last 20 years in a log cabin on the Dean River,…
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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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Dean River Availability
If you’ve been sitting back waiting for reports of great fishing for steelhead on the Dean River, this could be your year. Our steelhead fishing at BC West during the early season this summer has been fantastic – the best in quite a few years. How fantastic? Our catch rate to date is over triple…
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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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Flying to BC West
Have we mentioned recently that your trip to BC West on the Dean River includes a helicopter flight from Bella Coola to the mouth of the Dean, and that the flight is one of the cooler things you’ll ever experience on a fishing trip? Didn’t think so. More on BC West Dean Chinooks (not long…
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The Garden
At BC West we plant a small vegetable and herb garden in raised beds surrounded by a wooden fence to keep out bears, deer and other wildlife that try to sample our fresh produce before we can get it into the kitchen! We love to use fresh herbs to flavor and garnish our really good…
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Lower Dean River: Michael White’s Favorite Run
Michael White is a good friend of Deneki Outdoors – former guide at Alaska West, current Simms rep for the Southern Rockies, spey instructor, trip host and one fishy S. O. B. ‘Whitey’ has spent a good chunk of time chasing steelhead on the Dean River, and today he checks in with a writeup on…
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