Welcome! Photo: Cameron Miller We’ve had a whole bunch of new visitors to our blog recently, so we figured we’d take the opportunity to show you around a little bit! First, just a little bit about us. Deneki Outdoors runs fly fishing lodges in Alaska, British Columbia, the Bahamas and Chile. We think high quality…
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Chile Guidespeak Glossary
“He was flogging the seam when I wanted him to bang the bank.” Over the past few months we’ve presented glossaries to help you communicate with our guides in Alaska and in the Bahamas. Today we focus on the foreign language spoken by Chilean trout guides. If you’re headed to Chile West in the next…
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Rio Skagit Flight Review
Sorry, no product photo since the lines aren’t out yet. Here’s a guy casting! Photo: Cameron Miller Introduction and Warning This is a somewhat dorky, technical post about Rio’s new Skagit Flight, a shooting head for spey fishing. If you don’t care about spey fishing and would rather look at pictures of fish, click here….
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The Best Time To Go Bonefishing
This could be May, or October, or February. We operate three fly fishing lodges in different parts of the world. When we’re talking with a potential guest who’s interested in a trip with us, we’re frequently asked the question, “When’s the best time to go?” At most of our operations, that question will be answered…
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Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It
You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven’t noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water, we think switch rods are pretty cool too. One of our favorite trout switch rods so far is the Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis. Here’s why. The…
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Dean River Coho
A Dean River coho and its weary, shaky victim. The Dean River has a reputation for being home to the hottest, strongest steelhead and chinook salmon around. Its steep gradient and legendary canyon section have bred super-races in all its anadromous species – if you’re going to spawn in the Dean, you need to be…
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Wind Your Backing On Tight
Backing bulges are bad. If you’re chasing big fish, make sure you wind your backing on tight. King salmon, and Dean River steelhead, and dorado, and tarpon can pull really hard. If your backing isn’t wound on tight, the force of a fish’s run can cause the outer layers of backing to pull through loosely-wound…
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7 Fly Fishing Books We Like
If you’re not doing it, you might as well be reading about it. In the fly fishing world we’re lucky to have some gifted writers who love (or loved) the sport as much as we do. Here are 7 books about fly fishing that we really like. 1. The Earth is Enough, by Harry Middleton…
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Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 3 – Tactics
Trout spey tactic #427: Put the wood to ’em. Photo: Cameron Miller In the past couple of weeks we’ve covered why we think you should spey fish for trout, and which gear you should use when you do it. Today we’ll talk a bit about tactics to use when chasing rainbows with lightweight two-handers. Spey…
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Bead Fishing for Rainbow Trout
Just a couple to choose from. Photo: Cameron Miller Rainbow trout in Western Alaska eat a lot of salmon eggs. Over the years a lot of different flies like the Glo Bug have been tied to imitate salmon eggs, but recently it’s become clear that the most effective way to trick a rainbow trout into…
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