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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Steelhead Fly Fishing – Top 7 Tips
Our first guests arrive at BC West on the Dean River this Saturday. Although we’re mostly looking for the Dean’s legendary Chinooks over the next couple of weeks, we still thought the start of our season would be a lovely time to pass on the 7 most popular steelhead fishing ‘tip posts’ on our blog….
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Cantaria Beetle Fly Evolution
Over the years, Chile West manager Chris Price has been tying and fishing Cantaria beetle patterns of all shapes and sizes. Today we get to hear from Chris about the evolution of the beetle pattern. Cantaria Beetle Fly Evolution Back in the day, some 12 to 14 years ago, when a few of us first started…
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Tying Confidence Flies
Today we continue our great run of guest posts, with an article on tying ‘confidence flies’ from Dan Huff, the guy behind Angling Obsession. Angling Obsession is a blog focused on fishing the Great Lakes, where trout, salmon, and steelhead provide opportunity for fishing adventure 365 days a year. Thanks Dan – we’re headed to…
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Fly Fishing Web Directory
We’re happy to present our Fly Fishing Web Directory – a whole bunch of web sites that have to do with fly fishing. These listings are based on comments and emails that we’ve gotten from folks who want to have their sites listed here. If you’re a friend of ours and we missed you, we’re…
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Making T-14 Tips
“And then you color the front loop with a black Sharpie…” Photo: Cameron Miller When we fish the Kanektok and the Dean for kings and steelhead, most of the time we’re fishing Skagit-style spey lines with tips made of Rio T-14. T-14 is a very versatile material for constructing sinktips used when Skagit casting. The…
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Fly Fishing for Sharks
Sharks are hard on gear. Look closely at that reel… Photo: Andrea Spencer The waters around South Andros Island are extremely fertile – loaded not only with bonefish, but also mullet, jacks and countless other smaller critters. That means lots of food for sharks, which in turn means lots of sharks, which itself means that…
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Secrets of the Flesh Fly
Sometimes all it takes is a little flesh. Photo: Ramsey Smith Trout that live in the lower sections of rivers like the Kanektok and the Arolik in Western Alaska get a lot of their calories from salmon flesh. That means that at Alaska West we spend a lot of time tying and fishing patterns that…
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7 Reasons This Fly Works on South Andros Island
One of many, many flies that works on South Andros Tying your own flies for bonefish on South Andros Island can really help your ego – anything reasonable works. As always, however, the best flies tend to have some things in common. Here’s why this one works. It’s big. That’s a #2 Tiemco 811S, and…
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Gear Review: A Vise for a Vice
Talking about fly tying vises in the fly tying world can be polarizing as well…almost anything else in the fly fishing world. Everyone has a favorite, and no one will convince them otherwise, and we’re not going to do that today. Today, we’re going to go over the features and benefits of a vise we…
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