Way back in the almost prehistoric year of 2009, we wrote a series of posts on our blog about spey fishing for trout – why you should do it, what gear you should consider, and some tactics you should use. Those posts have turned into classics – they’re really popular with our readers, which always…
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Roundup Roundup
Some of the most popular posts on our blog are our ‘Roundup’ posts – in which we list a bunch of related posts all together for your reading pleasure. They serve as handy little indexes, and a lot of you like reading them, apparently. So today we give you our Roundup Roundup – our 10…
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Sage Kanektok Wool Pro – Why We Like It
Here’s why we like the new Sage Kanektok Wool Pro pullover. It’s a comfortable, versatile wool-polyester blend insulating layer that looks good, feels good and works in a really wide range of temperatures. It’s named after our home at Alaska West – the beautiful, remote, biomass-filled, amazing Kanektok River. More Gear We Like Simms Headwaters…
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Weekly Fly Fishing Newsletter
To Our Current Weekly Newsletter Subscribers Special apology to the 4,215 anglers who, at last count, are already reading this blog post via our weekly newsletter. Thanks for reading our stuff every week. To Everybody Else Hey, did you know that you can get everything we write on our blog about fly fishing, automagically, every…
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Kast Steelhead Glove Review
A few months back we heard from the folks at a new company called Kast Gear. They make a few different products designed for fishing in the cold. They sent us a pair of their Steelhead Gloves to try out. We fished them in cold weather. We liked them. Here’s why. Design and Fishing Use…
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Sage 6119-4 TCX Switch Rod Review
It’s another chapter in the story of the Short Spey Revolution! Background Earlier this year we posted our review of the Sage 8119-4 TCX Switch rod – the heaviest in Sage’s line of very fast “long switch/short spey” rods. We’re totally in love with this rod; in fact your fearless editor has had a very…
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IWFF Festival Report
Last month Kellsey Perkins, the financial mastermind at Deneki Outdoors, joined a bunch of like-minded women at the International Women Fly Fishers’ annual festival. Here’s her report on the highlights. IWFF Festival Report I just returned from the International Women Fly Fishers Festival near Bozeman, MT along the Gallatin River. Amazing women, incredible experience. What…
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Three Good Articles
Tips for Catching Trout in a Recessed Target Area. It’s a bit of a mouthful but it’s a great article – from Kirk Deeter at Field and Stream. Using Big Beads as Attractors. Another good tip from Kent at Gink and Gasoline. Chard’s Choker Permit Fly. Bruce Chard tell us about one of his favorite…
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Whitney Gould’s King Rig
We’ve got another post in our Expert Rig series today – in which we profile, in detail, how various expert anglers set up their gear to chase a particular species in a particular place. We’re really proud to have Whitney Gould on our guide team at Alaska West. If you don’t ask her about it…
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Revo Water Lens Review
Introduction A few months back we got our hands on a pair of glasses from Revo that incorporate their new Water Lens – a polarized lens made specifically for open water. The model we’ve been fishing with is called the Guide. We’ve fished enough days with them that we feel competent to write a review,…
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