Having just wrapped up our seasons at Alaska West and BC West, we’re starting to get antsy about our upcoming bonefish season at Andros South. We know a lot of you out there would love to try your hand on the flats, but might be a little overwhelmed at where to start. Not to worry,…
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Tips
Reeling Right or Wrong?
Over the course of the year, we’re lucky to share the water with a lot of super great, super fishy, people from countries all over the world. That lends itself to some healthy angler debate at times, allowing us to keep up to date on the latest tips and techniques in the fly fishing world….
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Timeless Tips: 4 Ways to Fish Dries in Alaska
Everybody loves fishing dry flies. There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program. Here are 4 ways…
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Nymphing with Indicators – 5 tips
It’s August, and in our neck of the woods that means our rainbow trout, dolly varden, and Arctic grayling populations are keying in heavily on the conveyor belt of salmon eggs and flesh making its way down river. Therefore, fishing sub-surface is the name of the game this time of year, and with that, like…
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Timeless Tips: 5 Ways to Blow a Shot at a Bonefish
Don’t want to catch a bonefish? Pick one or more of these simple tips and you’ll be not catching fish in no time! Wear wading boots in the boat. If you’re casting from the boat and you’re wearing shoes of any kind, you won’t know if you’re standing on your fly line. Always, always, always…
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In Search of Silvers? Strip Fast!
Towards the end of July through the beginning of August, our river begins to truly fill with fish. Between chum, pink, and the occasional late-run king salmon, it hits a point where you couldn’t imagine any more fish even entering the river.. But eventually the silvers start nosing in. And, while all the other other species…
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Stay Comfy Out There – Dress for the Morning
We’re fortunate to spend a lot of days on the water, with a bunch of great folks, in sometimes not-so-great of weather. We’ve come to notice one very important thing when it comes to how comfortable you are during the day.. It all depends on how you start it! Whether you’re racing towards tidewater in…
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Fighting Fish – Pull With the Rod, Gain With the Reel
Our ridiculous run of silver salmon has just begun to show up in full force, which means alongside four other species of pacific salmon, including voracious chums and feisty pinks, there’s no shortage of practice for fighting big fish. One thing we see on a regular basis from our first-time anglers upon hooking a hefty…
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Clearing Line for Bonefish – 7 Tips
During one of the coldest, wettest, and windiest days of our season here in Western Alaska this week, we couldn’t help but let our minds wander towards the flats. Surprising, right? That got us to thinking, what’s the most overlooked facet of saltwater fly fishing that results in more fish lost or landed? We’d argue…
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Timeless Tips: Casting on the Flats – Top 3 Tips
We’ve given an awful lot of different casting advice to our guests at Andros South over the years. We could write a book! That being said, there are some issues that we see over and over, and some advice that we give over and over. If we had to pick our top 3 casting tips…
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