Congratulations to longtime Andros South guest Andy Dober, who landed the biggest bonefish of his life this week. Nice work, Andy! Have we mentioned recently that the winter months are the best for big fish? More on Bonefish All About Bonefishing 5 Ways to Blow a Shot Favorite Flies for South Andros
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Bonefishing Story Contest Winner
You all wrote up some great tales as entries to our Best Bonefishing Story contest. Brenda Mantz was a our winner with the piece that appears below. We asked for fishing stories and Brenda submitted literature. Awesome. A pair of Abel nippers and a bonefish t-shirt are headed Brenda’s way. Stay tuned for more contests….
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6 Reasons to Fish at Alaska West in July
We think July is a really awesome time to go fishing at Alaska West. Here are 6 reasons why. 6 Reasons to Fish at Alaska West in July King salmon on swung flies. Yes, ‘peak king fishing’ starts in mid-June but they keep coming in all through July. In fact, the past few years some…
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5 Ways to Simplify Your Fishing Gear
If you’re a fly fishing gearhead like us, you know that no matter what you’re fishing for, you can make your gear just about as complicated as you like. Sometimes playing with gear is fun and adds to the experience. Other times, it’s nice to simplify. We’ll just throw out a few ideas – we’d…
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Fly Fishing Film Tour
It starts today! That’s right – the 2013 edition of the Fly Fishing Film Tour kicks off tonight in Denver and runs through May, with over 150 showings between now and then. What’s the Fly Fishing Film Tour? It’s a collection of short movies about fly fishing, shown at lots of different venues around the…
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Nice Fish, John.
This is a picture of a guy we really like fishing with, and a fish we were really glad he caught. More on King Salmon at Alaska West Just a Big Chrome Slab Now’s the Time to Book Your Trip 5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
Best Trout Fishing Posts of 2012
We continue our end-of-the-year/beginning-of-the-year series on the best posts of 2012 with a list of the 7 best posts about trout fishing we wrote in 2012 – according to what you guys read, that is. Two handers and trout seemed to be a bit of a thing in 2012… Best Trout Fishing Posts of 2012…
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4 Ways to Fish Dry Flies in Alaska
Everybody loves fishing dry flies. There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program. Here are 4 ways…
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It’s Big Out There
The close up, wide angle shots of anglers landing bonefish show you a lot of detail and that’s cool, but they can make it easy to lose track of how big the landscape is on the flats of South Andros. That’s why we like this Tosh Brown shot of a tiny weeny little sliver of…
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3 Things Bonefish Hate
Sometimes catching bonefish is more about not doing anything wrong than it is about doing anything incredibly well. Don’t do things bonefish hate! Bonefish Hate… Seeing a fly moving towards them. Almost all predatory fish hate it when flies come towards them. Just like sculpins don’t attack big rainbow trout, shrimp don’t attack bonefish –…
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