A lot has been written on where to land your fly when fishing for bonefish. While a whole bunch of factors can come into play when making the best presentation, things can happen fast on the flats, and the ability to make a quick decision is often the key to success. Therefore, when making your…
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Tube Flies for Bonefish?
If you’ve been following our blog for some time, you’re probably well aware that we really dig tube flies. Tube flies have become common place in the world of salmon and steelhead, and for good reason.. They work really well! We’ve also had great success fishing tubes for other species from trout to barracuda, so…
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Nice Fish, Kevin!
Our good friend, Kevin Ford, joined us for the last week of our season this year at Alaska West. His goal? Big, late-season, leopard rainbows. Despite high winds and unfavorable conditions, Kevin still managed to get it done with this beauty. Nice fish, Kevin! More Nice Fish from Our Lodges Bryan Burke Eric Neufeld Tom Provost
Trout Fishing in High “Off-Colored” Water
Whether early season run-off or late season rain, when the river comes up and the water becomes dirty, fishing for trout can be tough. That’s not to say it can’t be done though! Here are 9 tips when targeting trout in high water. Go Fishing. Don’t let ‘the river’s blown out’ be an excuse to stay…
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Calculating Fish Weight – The Formula
The silver salmon fishing is as good as ever here at Alaska West and Rapids Camp Lodge, and not only are we catching a lot of silvers this year, we’re also catching a lot of bigger fish. That has our anglers are asking, “how big is that hog?”, which has us scratching our heads.. “Yeah, exactly how…
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Chile Trout Fishing
Most of the fishing opportunities in Chile are for trout. Brown trout, rainbow trout and brook trout are all available in various rivers and lakes in Chile. All three species were introduced to the country, mostly by European settlers around the turn of the 20th century. They wanted to have something to fish for, so…
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World-Class Remote Fishing
One day you’re on foot casting dry patterns to rainbows. The next day you’re floating through fast-moving water, pitching a streamer at the bank in hopes of rousing a big predatory slab of a brown. The day after that you’re fishing a stonefly dry with a bead dropper to rainbows and browns stacked up on…
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Nice Fish, Tom
Rapids Camp Lodge head guide, Tom Provost, with a stud of a bonefish caught during his recent trip to Andros South. Reason number one for keeping your eyes peeled even when the lights go out. Good Work Tom! More on Bonefishing Fighting Bonefish – 5 Tips Bonefishing on Cloudy Days Roll Casting for Bonefish
Fall Bonefishing Specials
Andros South Lodge offers special pricing for bonefishing trips from October through January. Experienced anglers know that the fall (and winter) offers some of the best bonefishing of the season, including the most shots at the very biggest bonefish on the Island. We offer an unbeatable combination – a huge, productive fishery, fantastic Bahamian guides…
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Bonefishing – A Steelheader’s Perspective
Here at Andros South, we were recently joined by Alaska West guide, Whitney Gould, for her first bonefishing trip. When not guiding in Alaska, Whitney spends her winters chasing steelhead throughout the Pacific Northwest, not exactly a tropical setting. Knowing that many of our readers have never experienced flats style fishing, we asked Whitney to…
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