Our first guests arrive at BC West on the Dean River this Saturday. Although we’re mostly looking for the Dean’s legendary Chinooks over the next couple of weeks, we still thought the start of our season would be a lovely time to pass on the 7 most popular steelhead fishing ‘tip posts’ on our blog….
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Tips
Spey Casting and Hand Position
Brian Niska’s series of spey casting tips continues today, with some great discussion on hand position. This is one of our favorites! Reduce Fatigue and Increase Speycasting Performance with Proper Hand Position Proper hand position will enable you to utilize the larger joints to develop power for the speycast, thereby reducing fatigue and increasing casting…
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Don’t Leave Fish to Find Fish!
We announced a couple of days ago that Bill Arrants won our ‘Favorite Fishing Tip’ contest with his simple pearl that you should keep your fly in the water if you want to catch fish. Our manager Rick Sisler chimed in with another piece of wisdom for the ages. Rick wasn’t eligible in the contest,…
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Favorite Fishing Tip Winner
Well, once again we asked our readers for input and got…a whole lot of great input. For the past two weeks you folks have been weighing in with your favorite fishing tips, and today we’re announcing the winner of our T-shirt giveaway contest. Bill Arrants won with this profound bit of knowledge– “The big secret…
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Top 7 Alaska Fishing Tips
With our season at Alaska West right around the corner, we figured it was an excellent time to review our most popular posts with Alaska fishing tips on our blog. 7 seemed like a good number, and these have gotten the most visits in the lifetime of our humble little home on the web! Bead…
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Lake Fishing with Switch Rods
We’ve got our fourth of four videos today in our mini-series of videos on lake fishing. After getting an introduction to fly fishing on lakes, some tips on lake fishing with a tough backcast, and a look at fly selection for lake fishing, now we get to learn about using switch rods on lakes. In…
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Loops vs. Coils Demonstration
Hopefully we sort out the ‘loops versus coils’ thing today! We’ve run a couple of posts in the past about holding your running line when you’re spey fishing, and one tip that we’ve mentioned is to hold loops, not coils of running line – two posts that mention the topic are this one with 3…
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More Bonefishing Mythbusting
Michael Gracie is back today, passing on more wisdom gained about his bonefishing trips to Andros South. Thanks Michael! More Bonefishing Mythbusting Last year I conveyed some myths about bonefishing in The Bahamas, and how those tall tales were nothing but. This time around I’m adding to the list, with more myth busting on guides, gear,…
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Fly Selection for Lakes
We’re back today with more lake fishing video action featuring George Cook! George has already given us an introduction to fly fishing in lakes, and some tips on fishing lakes in spots with a tough backcast. Today’s topic is an overview of the flies you should consider when fishing lakes for trout. In the video,…
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Share Your Favorite Fishing Tip
If you follow our blog at all, you know that we’ve run a whole bunch of posts focused on fishing tips (182 to date, actually). We’ve also gotten a whole bunch of great input from our readers on a variety of ‘favorite’ topics. You guys are an incredibly knowledgeable, enthusiastic bunch, so today we’re combining…
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