Kyle Perkins was one of our attendees at FIBFest at Andros South last spring. That trip was Kyle’s first experience on the saltwater flats, and he put together today’s really insightful article about getting ready and making the trip. We think you’re going to like it – especially the end. Thanks, Kyle! All the Important…
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Guest Posts
Two Handers in Colorado?
We love spey fishing and we write about it a lot on our blog. Our experience fishing spey rods comes largely from ‘traditional’ spey-oriented fisheries in the Northwest – swinging for king salmon at Alaska West, and for steelhead at BC West. In recent years we’ve also done a lot of two-handed fishing for trout…
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Grillos’ Quick Silver Popper
Background Andrew Grillos is an Alaska West alumnus, an Idylwilde Signature Tier, a Scott Fly Rods Pro Staffer, a Simms Guide Ambassador…and a guide based out of Seattle (you can contact him here). Silver salmon at Alaska West are incredibly plentiful and ridiculously aggressive, and you can catch them on all kinds of stuff. Andrew…
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Our Most Popular Guest Posts
We are really lucky to have over 100 great guests posts on our blog. Folks ranging from full-time writers to everyday anglers to cutting edge industry icons have been nice enough to write for us, and that’s pretty humbling. Today we give you the guests posts on our blog that have been viewed the most,…
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Look Ma, Both Hands!
Our friend Jeff Hickman is back today with a great article on why and how you should try spey casting. Jeff is a year-round swung fly steelhead guide and two-handed rod casting instructor in Oregon. You can find him at www.fishtheswing.com. Today’s piece is an adaptation of an article that Jeff wrote for Fly Fisherman…
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The Modern Day Gong Show
We’ve got another guest post today from Josh Mills on the hilarity that can ensue when you’re fishing with friends and somebody hooks up. Josh has a great blog about Fly Fishing, Bird Hunting and General Life Craziness. We love Josh’s stuff and think you should check it out. One quick note before we get…
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Andros Trip Report from Gabe Nyblad
Gabe Nyblad is a fantastic guide and a good buddy of ours. We’ve been working on him to join us at Andros South for a few years now, and he finally made it down earlier this month. We always love getting perspective on our operations from other folks in the industry, so we talked Gabe…
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Identifying Bonefish Muds
When fish swimming around tidal flats disturb the bottom, they make a puff of sediment that’s known as a “mud”. Locating bonefish muds can be one way to locate bonefish. Bruce Chard is back today with another bonefishing tip – how to know if the mud that you’re looking at came from bonefish. Special note…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Wrap Up
Over the past month we’ve heard a bunch from Bruce Chard about how to present flies to permit. We got an introductory pep talk, details on presenting flies to feeding and cruising fish, and tips on when and how to set the hook. We’re wrapping up our mini-series today with some thoughts on weather and…
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Don’t Cast Too Far.
Jeff Hickman is back on our blog today with a very simple but incredibly important spey fishing tip. Don’t Cast Too Far. For some reason, people equate spey rods to long casts. Sure you can cast a spey rod far but that is not the main advantage of using one. Much of the time if…
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