It’s not as bad as it looks. Photo: Wayne Walts Sign up for our weekly newsletter by November 11th, and you’ve got a chance to win a free bonefishing trip to Andros South. Really? Really. We’ve done it before and we’re doing it again. This past July, Eric Dawson from Oklahoma City, OK won a…
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Game On
The Slack Tide will be occupied tonight. Today marks the start of our 2009-2010 season at Andros South. Rick Sisler and his team on South Andros have been hard at work making final preparations, and we’ve got a lodge full of guests tonight. Most importantly, the bonefish of South Andros are swimming around hungrily, just…
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Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Week at Andros South
Learn about me, catch me, and help those who are helping me. Photo: rustychinnisimages.com We are pleased to announce a special Bonefish and Tarpon Trust week at Andros South this December. Guests will have the opportunity to learn from the leading minds in the bonefishing world, and a donation will be made on behalf of…
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Skagit Master Is Out!
Besides learning to tie it, you’ll learn how to cast it. Photo: Jeff Mishler Back in July we told you about Skagit Master, a film in production about Ed Ward – Skagit casting pioneer, spey Zen master, anadromous Jedi Knight, our head guide at Alaska West – and his approach to spey fishing. Ed and…
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Alaska West Kings in The Drake
Jason ties on something lusty. Photo: Cameron Miller The fall/winter issue of The Drake magazine includes a great section on the Seven Sins of Flyfishing. Tom Bie (Drake publisher) made a perfect choice when he asked Jason Koertge to write about swinging for kings at Alaska West for the piece on Lust. Anyone out there…
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Speypages Week on the Dean
Dana fishes Bill’s. Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com and casting instructor extraordinaire, visited us at BC West on the Dean this year for some Chinook salmon fishing with a few steelhead thrown in as a bonus. He liked it so much he booked the lodge. Dana will be hosting a Speypages Dean River Spey Week…
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Angler’s Tonic
Greg’s stuff is cool. Photo: Angler’s Tonic Today we’ve got a new fly fishing-related website that we think you should check out. It’s called Angler’s Tonic, and it’s by Greg Thomas. You might know of Greg because he wrote a guest post for us a while back about targeting Fresh Fish. More likely, you know…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Wrap-up – Ross and More
A bunch o’ reels. The next few reviews wrap up our coverage from the 2009 Fly Fishing Retailer show. Thanks for checking it out! Over the next few months we’ll be putting a lot of the gear we’ve seen to work, and we’ll follow up with some more detailed reviews. Bruce Chard does a really…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Redington, Buff and Smith
A big guy with a little rod. We’re almost done with our coverage of Fly Fishing Retailer. Here’s the rundown on what we liked from Redington, Buff and Smith Optics. We’ll have one more gear post from FFR this afternoon. Redington Minnow Anything that helps get kids into fly fishing is a great thing in…
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Fly Fishing Retailer Day 2 – Sage and Rio Highlights
Guys casting rods inside. Our coverage of the new gear at the Fly Fishing Retailer show continues this afternoon. If you’re getting tired of the ‘new gear’ posts, don’t worry – we’ll be back to our normal posting schedule on Sunday. This morning we got our detailed walkthrough of the new lineup from Sage, Rio…
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