Many of us who learned to spey cast using Skagit-style systems have never felt that comfortable casting floating lines. There, I said it! Your fearless editor was raised on T-14; I’m really bad at casting even Scandi heads. These days in the Pacific Northwest, lots of us fish Skagit heads and sinktips most of the…
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Alaska West and BC West 2012 Availability
Well, it looks like a lot of you are planning ahead for 2012! We’re way ahead of our typical bookings at this time of year, so we thought we’d give you a quick update on which weeks have available space at Alaska West and BC West during the summer of 2012. As you can see,…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Rodent Rig
J.E.B. Hall is more than just The South’s Cultural Ambassador to Alaska West. He’s an actual ambassador for Feel Free Kayaks, the author of the Southern Appalachian Fly Guide, and he takes real good photos. Most importantly though, he’s one heck of a fly fishing guide, and he knows his rainbow trout, and he’s one…
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Why Andros South?
There are dozens (at least!) of bonefishing lodges in the Bahamas. It’s only natural that we often can asked this question: “There are lots of bonefishing lodges in the Bahamas. Why should I go to Andros South?” We’ll keep things simple and give you our top 3 reasons. The fishery really is different. The waters…
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All About Rainbow Trout
Two of the most popular pages on our web site are our All About Bonefishing and All About Spey Fishing pages – big ol’ lists of posts on some of the topics closest to our hearts, categorized for easy access. We’re kind of slow learners, but we decided “Hey! We should do more stuff like…
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Trout Spey Program at Alaska West
Spey Instruction You may have heard that we run a really popular spey instruction program during the heart of our king salmon season at Alaska West. Some of the best spey instructors in the world – this year the lineup includes Charles St. Pierre, Tom Larimer and Brian Niska – join us on the river…
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Casting for Recovery Donation
We try hard to support good causes. Since our resources are fairly limited, we’ve made the decision to focus our support and donations on organizations related to fisheries conservation. Casting for Recovery is such a great cause, though, that we bent our rules and donated a trip for 2 to Andros South to the Casting for…
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Save Bristol Bay Road Show
You’ve read here before that we’re big supporters of Trout Unlimited and their program to Save Bristol Bay from the risks associated with the Pebble Mine. Today we’re helping to get the word out on the Save Bristol Bay Road Show that’s taking place over the next couple of weeks. In Seattle, San Francisco, Portland,…
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Bruce Chard’s Barracuda Rig
Bruce Chard teaches bonefishing schools at Andros South – but even though he’s a master bonefish angler, he always takes some time to throw flies at South Andros Island’s incredible population of barracudas. When Bruce has ‘cudas on the brain, this is the rig that he reaches for. The Summary Ross FW 1090 – 9…
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Three Good Articles
Tips for Catching Trout in a Recessed Target Area. It’s a bit of a mouthful but it’s a great article – from Kirk Deeter at Field and Stream. Using Big Beads as Attractors. Another good tip from Kent at Gink and Gasoline. Chard’s Choker Permit Fly. Bruce Chard tell us about one of his favorite…
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