We want to extend big Kudos to Alaska West guest Kasey Halcro. Kasey started his morning yesterday planning to target silver salmon early in the morning and hoping to find the clowned up dolly varden of his dreams in the afternoon. Pretty typical day at Alaska West in August. What Kasey did not expect is that…
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Guest Posts
Tying the Intruder Without a Dubbing Loop
Last week, our buddy Stuart Foxall gave us a great tying tip on a better way to create dubbing balls when tying intruder style flies. Stuart is a commercial fly tyer/designer for Aqua Flies, and is a master at constructing modern intruder style flies (among many, many, other patterns). When Stu takes to the vise at Alaska…
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Stuart Foxall on Better Dubbing Balls
We recently ran a post asking you what topics you’d like to see more of. More posts on fly tying was a common request and guess what – we listened! In fact, we reached out to Stuart Foxall, world class fly designer and Deneki host for some state of the art tying content. Part of Loop Tackle’s development…
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Alaska West Video by Magnus Jepson
Right about this time last year, we ran a post with a very cool video that Magnus Jepson put together on the fishing during his trip to Alaska West. If you saw that video, you know that Magnus is one heck of a videographer and editor. We’re happy to say that Magnus is at it…
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Wind Your Backing On Tight – Why, Illustrated
Almost five years ago we ran a post about why you need to wind your backing on tight when you’re chasing big fish. A few days ago our good friend Nic Jepson sent us the amazing picture above, which tells the story better than our words ever could. Nic was kind enough to add the…
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A Bonefish Honeymoon
We recently had the delight of spending time with our good friend (and newlywed), George Cook and his lovely wife Jennifer while on their honeymoon at Andros South. George was kind enough to share the highlights of his trip with us and we thought we’d share it with you too! Thanks to George and Jen for…
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Andros From Above
We were recently graced by the presence of Bill and Alicia, a super fun couple on their first trip to Andros South. Bill and Alicia made the trip down in their own plane, and on their way home made sure to snap a few shots of our lodge on the way by. It’s not every…
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South Andros Mini Gallery – Mama Sly Edition
Recently we were graced with the presence of Cathy Sly here at Andros South. Not only is she one of the sweetest people ever to have walked our flats, she’s also one heck of a photographer! Did we mention she’s also the proud Mom of our own Jordan Sly? Check out Cathy’s photos and ease…
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Adjusting the Swing
Fred Telleen has been guiding on the Kenai River since 1989. He also hosts groups at Alaska West during our king salmon fishing season. Fred put together some thoughts on gear and swing techniques after his trip this year – experienced anglers in particular are going to like today’s post. Make sure you check out…
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13 Habits of Unaccomplished Anglers
Last week we ran an article called 13 Habits of Highly Effective Anglers. It somehow wound up pretty popular – thanks to the 4,882 of you who have checked it out so far! Our good friend Kirk Werner has a fantastic blog called the Unaccomplished Angler. We were thrilled when Kirk agreed to put together…
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