Following up on last week’s post covering different streamer fishing techniques, here are some specific tips to help you get the most out of your time fishing streamers this fall. Keep your rod tip low when retrieving. This will help keep your fly deep. No fish wants to see its pretty swimming up towards the…
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Reminder: Don’t Fish Without a License
Famous musician or weekend warrior, in this country you need to have a current fishing license for the state you are fishing in. Last weekend, there was a three day music festival in Buena Vista Colorado that featured country music stars Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan. When in Colorado, they did what Coloradans do and…
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Advice on Streamer Fishing Techniques for Fall
In my opinion, fishing streamers is one of the most fun ways to catch trout. I love how voracious and un-trout like they act. Usually when trout fishing (outside of Alaska), the current is bringing our flies to the fish. When streamer fishing it is the opposite, we are triggering something aggressive inside the trout…
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Timeless Tip Tuesday // 3 Random Bonefishing Tips
Casting short of a fish is better than casting past it. If you see a big fish cruising and you are trying to get your flies in front of it, a shorter cast is often more effective than casting far. If your cast is too long, you risk the fish seeing your line. Even if…
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Make your Waders Last!
I always tell people, there are only two types of waders, new waders, and leaky waders. Putting on a fresh new pair of waders is great, but with the price of them, it is not an event most of us can justify experiencing often. The solution? Make the waders you currently have last! First things…
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Sight Fishing Tip
From Alaska to the Rocky Mountains, by this time of year, stream flows have dropped and the waters are clear. This gives us some perfect conditions to sight fish. Different from sight fishing to a tailing Bonefish on the flats, here we have to play the current, and use that moving water to bring our…
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“Pano” Mode on your Phone
Now a days any 8 year old with an iPhone can take a great photo. The technology of the cameras on our phones is becoming so good that it takes DSLR quality photos, without having to have a degree in photography. A lot of these phones have various camera settings that go unused by the…
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Timeless Tips // Follow Through on Your Hook Set!
Whether you’re following an indicator or dry fly with your rod tip, or swinging flies, you do not want to set the hook in an upwards direction, instead, set in the direction that the fly is moving. To aid in remembering this, I encourage clients to really follow their drift with the rod tip, that…
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A Reminder, Cast In Front of the Boat!
I like to think of wade fishing and fishing from a boat (drifty, raft, willie raptor, etc) as two very different sports. Because of this, your approach when fishing from a boat should be different than when you are wade fishing. Things happen a little faster when floating so you want to plan accordingly. You…
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Timeless Tips, Avoid Wading too Deep!
Stuart Foxall is back again with more advice to help you up your King Salmon game. This week, instead of giving you pointers on things to do, he is going over a crucial thing to avoid doing! Please share Stuart! “Every year at Alaska West I see the same common mistake made again and again…….Wading…
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