Summer is in full swing in Southern Chile, and water temperatures are ideal for hatches. Stoneflies are the most prolific and they come in all sizes – but we like em’ big. Big and plentiful. More on Southern Chile Shoulders 10 Cool Things About Chile Fishing Brown Trout – Where They Live
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Going Small
At Chile West we love fishing giant dry flies and streamers. The beauty of that fishery, though, is its variety. Today Trevor Covich tells us about the other end of the spectrum. Going Small Sometimes at Chile West we go away from casting and chugging those giant dries and leeches, for a more delicate approach….
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Chum Salmon on Swung Flies
Brian Niska is one of our guest spey instruction gurus at Alaska West. He also owns Whistler Fly Fishing. He put together a couple of great posts for us about the hardest working fish in the river – the chum salmon. Brian’s teaching spey casting for two weeks at Alaska West this summer. One of…
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Backyard Salmon
Rivers change every year, and the Kanektok River, home of Alaska West, changes more than most. As a gravelly, low-gradient river, runs come and go with regularity on the Kanektok. Sometimes we get great water right in our backyard… And that’s the topic of today’s guest post by Kimi Reid. Kimi is a proud alumna…
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I Had a Crazy Dream…
I had this crazy dream, man! It was snowing at my house, but there I was, standing on the bow of a flats skiff. A bead of sweat dripped off my nose. The guide turned the skiff, and bam! There were bonefish everywhere, and big ones too. More on Dreams from South Andros Just Before…
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Brown Trout – Where They Live
We fish for brown trout a lot a Chile West. Sometimes we’re fishing on foot, and we’ve got lots of time to read the water and decide where to make our next cast. Sometimes we’re fishing out of a raft, and in that case we’re covering lots of water and making lots of quick decisions…
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Mouse Water
Any time you’re using your fly to imitate a food source, step #1 is to understand what type of food source lives in the water that you’re fishing and try to imitate it. Stonefly nymphs are most often found in quick, rocky water, so if you’re in quick, rocky water you should think about fishing…
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Save Bristol Bay
Yeah it’s the holiday season and we’re all supposed to be thinking happy thoughts, but it’s time for a little reminder of the massive threat to Bristol Bay posed by the proposed Pebble Mine, from our friends at TU and Save Bristol Bay. Save Bristol Bay The biggest wild salmon fishery on the planet needs…
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Oh No, Not Again
Yep, it’s another one of those days. Just a picture of some dude who was lucky enough to swing flies for kings with his two-handed rod at Alaska West this past summer. Sorry! And if you must know… More on Kings at Alaska West Which Rods You Should Use 10 Tips on Swinging for Kings…
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Sharks Eat Flies Too
So you’ve been fishing on South Andros for a few days, you’ve been slaying the bonefish (figuratively, of course), and you want to change it up a bit? Why not throw flies at some sharks? They eat big flashy streamers. They pull really, really hard. They’re everywhere. What’s not to like? More on Other Species…
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