Earlier this month our good friends from The Flyfish Journal, hands down one of our favorite fly fishing publications, joined us for their fifth consecutive ‘Bamahacon’ pilgrimage to Andros South. They just released a great online photo essay of their trip featuring stunning images, great writing, and video cut, and if you haven’t already, we urge you…
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Andros South Trip Report from Fishwest
Earlier this season we were fortunate to spend another great week at Andros South with our good friends and long time Deneki guests from Fishwest. As part of their group, we were also pleased to host Fishwest team member, Morgan Griffith, for his first flats-fishing experience. Morgan has put together a couple of great trip reports on…
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Three Good Articles – Fly Fishing Photography Edition
It’s three good articles time again – Three good articles from other fly fishing websites that we enjoyed and think you will too. Today’s edition even has a theme.. Fishing photography! Photography has become a big part of the fly fishing culture, and the following articles are sure to help boost your skills behind the…
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BTT On Bahamian Bonefish
As usual, our friends from the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust (BTT) have been conducting some pretty ground-breaking research in hopes to better understand bonefish populations around the world. Over the last month, they have released several articles on the BTT blog highlighting their recent work, along with some pretty interesting findings, surrounding bonefish populations in…
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Nice Fish, Pete!
Our good friend Peter Viau has been joining us at Andros South for a long time. In fact, some of you might recognize his name from the many fantastic photos of his we’ve shared on our humble little fishing blog over the years. Well, during his most recent trip, despite some challenging conditions, Pete was fortunate to tie…
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Exterus Fly Fishing Inspired Apparel
There’s no shortage of well made, cool looking, outdoor inspired clothing these days. However, while looking cool on the water is important (don’t pretend you don’t think so), when it comes to clothes for fishing, we think form should follow function. After all, how could clothes designed to fish well look anything but uber cool…
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The Double Digit Bonefish
For most heavily targeted species, certain benchmarks exist in the minds of most anglers as the pinnacle of their quarry – think 30 inch trout, 20 pound steelhead, 10 pound bass, 100 pound tarpon, and so on.. The double digit bonefish, that which weighs in at a whopping ten pounds or greater, is a benchmark…
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Nice Fish, Gary!
Last week our good friend, Gary Rogers, joined us for a week at Andros South. Each day of his trip Gary brought back some tantalizing stories of truly big fish that would make the hair on any hardcore angler’s neck stand up. Well, we were extremely pleased when we were told that on his second to…
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Fish Hard, Wade Easy
We could talk all day long about why we love our home river at Alaska West – from our impressive run of chrome bright king salmon, to our stunning resident leopard rainbow trout, to our staggering numbers of aggressive cohos, to our, well, you get the point. However, one aspect of our river that many…
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Land Your Bonefish in the Shallows
When releasing a bonefish, most anglers are aware that its really important to revive an exhausted fish before sending it on its way – especially if the fish loses equilibrium (cannot remain upright on its own). Unlike a trout stream, there are a lot of predators on the flats, and the erratic behavior of a…
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