And we’re back today with another in our extremely irregular series of posts about recent fly fishing stuff online that we didn’t write but somehow we still think you’ll like. You should read these articles. The River is Full of Want. Louis Cahill is proving himself capable of legitimately great writing. You need to check…
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Our Fly Fishing Gear Page
Did you know that this page on our web site neatly categorizes the posts about fly fishing gear on our web site – 168 of them so far? Reviews, expert rigs, gear-related tips, favorite flies…it’s all there. Our favorite lens for the flats? Check. How to rig tube flies? Got it. Dana Sturn’s steelhead rig?…
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Plan Your 2013 Alaska Fishing Now.
Wait, didn’t the summer season at Alaska West just end? Yep, it did – and that makes now the perfect time to get your 2013 trip planned. You see, we give all of our guests the first right of refusal to rebook their trip with us the following year. That means that we don’t actually…
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4 Things We Hate About Fishing
We generally try to keep things pretty positive around here. Fishing’s fun, right? Every once in a while, though, it’s OK to vent…right? Here are 4 things we hate about fishing. Finding trash on the river/lake/flat. Who would do that? No appreciation for ‘non-target species’. As in “you know, a million anglers in Washington would…
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Another Summer in the Books
…and just like that, it’s over! This past week we finished up our summer seasons at Alaska West and BC West. Golly, 11 weeks goes by fast. Thanks so much to each of you who joined us for some summer fishing. You are the reason we get to do what we do – we truly…
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Sportsmen’s Challenge – Double Your No Pebble Money
You’ve heard it about it here before – the Save Bristol Bay campaign is working hard to keep the Pebble Mine from screwing up the incredible fishery that is Bristol Bay. Now is a really important time to donate and help spread the word. A donor has agreed to $200,000 in matching funds in support…
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Two Million Pageviews
Every once in a while we come across some metric related to our web site that knocks our socks off. Today was one of those days. You see, our real business is running fishing lodges. A few years back we started posting content on our site that we thought would be interesting and helpful to…
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Saracione Islamorada Lever Drag Reel
We just returned from the International Fly Tackle Dealer show in Reno, where we saw a bunch of cool new products that we’ll be telling you about over the next few weeks. One of the coolest pieces of gear that we’ve seen in a long time was the Saracione Islamorada lever drag saltwater reel. Saracione…
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Lani Waller “A Steelheader’s Way” Audiobook
Driving from Seattle to the Deschutes any time soon? How about from Your Home, U.S.A. to anywhere in Steelhead Country? Perfect! We’ve got the ultimate way for you to spend 5 hours of your drive time. The Native Fish Society and Lani Waller have produced an audiobook version of Lani’s classic book “A Steelheader’s Way”….
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Why Silver Salmon Winner
We’ve run quite a few contests on our web site, and we always get a bunch of quality entries. In our posts announcing who won, we often say something like “it was really hard to pick the winner”. This contest was different. We got a bunch of quality entries – but Doug Jett ran away…
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