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Ask The Experts – Storing Gear In The Off-Season
If you've got an off-season, store this stuff well. Photo: Cameron Miller We've got a panel of fly fishing experts that periodically answers your questions about anything remotely related to...
King Flies – The Mikey Prawn
Looks shrimpy, no? Photo: John Ford Brian Niska will be one of our spey instructors at Alaska West in 2010, for the third year running. Today Brian tells us a...
Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It
You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven't noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water,...
Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 3 – Tactics
Trout spey tactic #427: Put the wood to 'em. Photo: Cameron Miller In the past couple of weeks we've covered why we think you should spey fish for trout, and...
Running Line Roundup
Running line from above Photo: Cameron Miller As you've probably noticed, since we do a lot of spey fishing for king salmon and steelhead at Alaska West and BC West,...
Spey Fishing for Trout, Part 1 – Why
Dec Hogan covers the Arolik, bank-to-bank. Photo: Cameron Miller Over the past few years, spey casting has become the method of choice in most fisheries around the world that involve...
Buffs – Why We Like Them
They're not just for the flats anymore. Photo: Cameron Miller A few years ago on the flats we started seeing people with these funny stretch things wrapped around their heads,...
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...