We’re thrilled to welcome Scott Baker-McGarva to our team at BC West this summer. Scott’s taking the reins as our head guide, and we’re mighty excited to have him. Alfie King will be around in a part-time role this season, and Paul Reid and Chris and Belinda Miller will round out the familiar faces in…
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Johnny Spillane – Skier, Angler
Johnny Spillane, as you know, won 3 silver medals at the Vancouver Olympics earlier this year in nordic combined, an event combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing. As if being a 3-time medalist isn’t enough, Johnny’s first medal was the U.S.A.’s first ever in nordic combined. The icing on the cake? Johnny’s a fly fishing…
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Deneki FIBFest
It’s May 15 – 22 on South Andros Island. It’s an unholy matrimony of bonefish and blogs, fins and Facebook, tails and Twitter. It’s Deneki FIBFest! Huh? It’s pretty simple actually – we think there are some folks writing really high-quality stuff online about fly fishing these days, and we wanted to get a few…
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Alaska Felt Sole Ban
Last month in Juneau the State of Alaska Board of Fisheries decided in a unanimous 6-0 vote to ban anglers from wearing felt soled boots in all Alaskan streams and rivers starting in 2012. Why Ban Felt Soles? Trout Unlimited and other conservation-oriented organizations have for some time now espoused that anglers do in fact…
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Navigating our Web Site
We’ve had a bunch of new visitors on our web site recently (Welcome!), so we thought it’d be nice to give a quick overview on how to navigate the 650+ pages (and growing daily) on our site. There’s a lot here – we want you to find what you’re looking for! Overview We post to…
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Bananas in the Boat
Anyone who’s been around fishing for a while knows that many, many anglers believe that having a banana along on a fishing trip represents some seriously bad juju. A story we recently heard about a day of steelhead fishing is a classic example. Two friends were fishing and one of them caught a fish and…
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Our Season in Chile
Since Chile West is our newest operation, we get a lot of questions from people asking how things are going down there. We just wrapped up our 2009-2010 season, so we figured we’d give you a little rundown on how things went, and tell you where you can go for more info…and lots of pictures,…
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You Gotta See This
We do some fishing for sharks at Andros South…but this is a little ridiculous. Thanks to our friends at Buster Wants to Fish for pointing out this video of guys fishing for sharks from the beach in Australia. It’s well worth your time. If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here…
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Most Popular Posts of 2010, So Far
Our team of mad scientists recently spent some time in our evil lair at the top of the Space Needle, poring over copious amounts of data related to our web site. We came to this scheming conclusion: you like reading about gear. Here are our 5 most read posts of the year so far. Ross…
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Native Fish Society Auction and Banquet
The Native Fish Society is one of our favorite organizations working hard to preserve the fisheries we love. If you’re not familiar with the NFS, here’s their mission statement. The Native Fish Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 whose purpose is to protect and restore native, wild fish and their habitats. Our goal…
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