We admit it – we’re gearheads. We love fly fishing gear so we write about it a lot on our web site. This page has links to almost everything we’ve ever written about fly fishing gear – enjoy! If you’d like to put your gear to good use, you should get in touch and talk…
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All About Bonefishing Reminder
Now that bonefishing season is upon is, we figured it was time for a reminder that we maintain a giant page on our web site with links to all kinds of articles we’ve written about bonefishing! It’s located right here. It’s better than it sounds. Have a look if you haven’t recently. As of today…
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When to Go Fishing in Alaska
Judging by the number of people we’re hearing from right now who are planning their fishing trips to Alaska for next summer, a lot of you are planning your fishing trips to Alaska for next summer. Yep, it’s happening right now, and we’re proud of you for planning ahead! We’re always looking to provide you…
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Nice Fish, Fraser
Here’s Alaska West’s good friend Fraser with a beautiful king salmon of the purple-backed variety. Nice fish, Fraser. More on Alaska West King Salmon Ed Ward’s King Rig Just A Big Chrome Slab. 5 Ways to Catch More King Salmon
Nice Fish, Brian
Brian Pitser joined us at Alaska West earlier this year for a week of starry flounder fishing. After a winter of tying starry flounder flies and practicing starry flounder retrieves, he was thrilled to land this beauty. Nice fish, Brian. OK, OK – just joking. We don’t actually target starry flounder at Alaska West. We…
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Bonefishing in a Month
A month from today we’ll be catching bonefish at Andros South – our world-class bonefishing lodge on South Andros Island. Our first guests arrive on October 22nd, and on the 23rd we’re out on the flats. This seemed like a perfect excuse to remind you of a few points related to chasing the Ghost of…
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BC West Fishing Report: August 20 – 29
We welcomed our final group to BC West this week, as we have every year since our inception – our friends from Europe. There could not be a better group to have to wrap up a very busy season as our ‘Europeans’. They truly enjoy not only our famous steelhead, but everything that the Dean and British Columbia…
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Nice Fish, Hope
Hope Hitchcock caught a nice big king at Alaska West this summer. We think her smile says it all. Nice fish, Hope! More on King Salmon Nice One from the Dean A Big Chrome Slab 5 Ways to Catch More
BC West Fishing Report: August 13 – 20
One sometimes wonders, if we, as anglers, often fish ‘under’ the fish. This is to say, fish too deep, use to much tip, too big a fly. In summer-run steelhead pursuits in clear water, this can indeed be the case, and so found the 9th group of the season at BC West. Veteran river soldiers…
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National Fishing in Schools Program
One of the coolest things that we learned about at IFTD last week was the National Fishing in Schools Program. The NFSP teaches kids in public schools how to cast fly rods! We think this is really important because… Most kids need to get outside more, and Extra-curricular activities in public schools are getting killed…
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