When you’re in the boat poling for bonefish, one angler is on the bow, ready for the shot. The other angler is back in the boat, without a rod in his or her hand. But if you’re not the one on the bow, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s nap time – you can be a…
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Airflo Skagit Switch – Video Intro
If you’re a spey geek who reads our blog regularly, you’ve heard a bit about the Airflo Skagit Switch head. We told you about it way back in 2010, and last year we wrote our review of it. Our summary on this head is basically that… It’s a modern Skagit head by Airflo designed for…
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Kevin Price’s Trout Rig
And once again you get to learn about how the experts rig themselves to fish for trout in Alaska! Today’s rig is a little different from your more common “target and land giant rainbows in big water” setup, and it comes courtesy of Kevin Price. Kevin is one of the finer guides in Northern California,…
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Plano Boxes
There are some really cool purpose-built fly boxes out there. Threader boxes, streamer boxes, tube fly boxes, slit foam, solid foam, no foam…you name it, there’s a fly box for it. We totally get specialization – just ask your editor’s wife about the ‘selection’ of fly rods in the basement. That being said, we spend…
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Jeff Hickman’s Trout Rig
Jeff Hickman, as you probably know by now, is a long-time veteran of fishing in the Northwest. He’s spent a whole bunch of years guiding at Alaska West, and he knows his way around Oregon pretty good too. Oh yeah, the Ross and Idylwilde Pro Staffs somehow let him in the door. Want to know…
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What’s Your Favorite Trailer Hook?
Look, we know you steelhead and salmon types are a bunch of opinionated…well, we know you’re opinionated. That’s OK – we are too. We want to hear your opinions on a topic that’s near and dear to the hearts of those of us who swing articulated and/or tube flies – what’s your favorite trailer hook?…
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Andros Trip Report from Gabe Nyblad
Gabe Nyblad is a fantastic guide and a good buddy of ours. We’ve been working on him to join us at Andros South for a few years now, and he finally made it down earlier this month. We always love getting perspective on our operations from other folks in the industry, so we talked Gabe…
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J.E.B. Hall’s Bead Rig
In the past couple of weeks we’ve learned from J.E.B. Hall about how he rigs up and chases rainbow trout in Alaska with mouse patterns and sculpin patterns. Today we wrap up our mini-series on JEB’s trout rigs as he tells us about how he uses beads to imitate salmon eggs. Once again, it’s built…
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Airflo Rage Compact Head
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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