Today’s tip for bonefishing also applies to any situation when you’re presenting a fly with a single-handed rod. As you’re false casting and lengthening line, your fly line slips through your fingers on your hauling hand when you shoot line (which you’re doing on both your forward cast and your back cast, right?). When you…
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Tips
Sinktip Secrets
George Cook is the Northwest rep for Sage, Redington and Rio. He’s done a boatload of fishing over the years using sinktips (especially on the Kanektok and the Dean), and today he stops by our blog in video format to chat us up about sinktips. Here’s what he covers: Sink rate and the ‘type’ system…
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Don’t Walk in the Clouds
When you’re wading for bonefish at Andros South or anywhere else they swim, you’re going to have some days with no clouds and some days with no sun, but most days are a mix of the two. The sun comes out and you get great visibility; a cloud comes by and the lights go out….
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Seams and Backeddies
In a typical river float with Chile West, anglers have the opportunity to fish lots of different types of water using many methods. Occasionally there will be an area where the river dumps into a rock wall and makes a 90 degree turn creating a big backeddy. Here the current swirls around creating seams that…
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Stop Your Backcast High
One of the biggest casting mistakes made on the saltwater flats is the dreaded ‘dropping of the backcast’. We all do it from time to time…but it sure screws things up when we do. Dropping your backcast happens most often in an effort to add distance to a cast, and the effect is quite the…
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Selecting Steelhead Flies
In the past month we’ve had Tom Larimer stop by our blog to give a 6-minute master class on spey casting anchor placement, and a 1-minute diatribe (well, for Tom it was a diatribe) on fishing your fly actively. Today we hear Tom’s thoughts on picking which steelhead fly to fish – especially which color to…
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Top Tips
We’re working hard to give you information about how to be a better angler – so far we’ve got 88 Fishing ‘Tip’ posts on our blog. We’ve got a really long list of topics that we’re going to be writing Tip posts about over the next few months – during Deneki FIBFest at Andros South,…
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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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Hand-Tied Leaders for Saltwater Fishing
Today we hear from Bruce Chard – legendary guide in the Florida Keys and teacher of our bonefishing schools at Andros South – about why he prefers hand-tied leaders for fishing on the saltwater flats. Bruce Chard on Saltwater Leaders I have seen a lot of leaders break in my days – unfortunately – but…
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Fish Your Fly
Today we present a short video featuring Tom Larimer, Oregon steelhead guide and spey guru extraordinaire. Tom thinks that one of the biggest mistakes people when fishing for steelhead is fishing in ‘remote control’ mode. NOTE: If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here to see the video on YouTube. Tom…
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