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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Tell Us Your Best Bonefishing Story
It’s contest time again here on the Deneki blog! We’re going to send the author of our favorite bonefishing story a free pair of Abel nippers and a free Deneki / Ed Hepp bonefish t-shirt. The rules of this one are really, really simple. Tell us your best bonefishing story as a comment on this…
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Your Steelhead Rigs
When more than 80 of you really thoughtfully wrote up your steelhead rigs for our free Bougle contest, you helped created a really cool resource. Already more than 1600 unique anglers have checked out that page, and they’ve no doubt gotten some new ideas on steelhead rigging, at the very least. Looking at all those…
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Bougle Contest Winner – Tom Ehrhard’s Steelhead Rig
We’re thrilled to present to you the winner of a brand new Hardy Bougle, courtesy of our ‘Tell Us About Your Steelhead Rig’ contest. Tom Ehrhard took this one home with his entry that appears in its entirety below. Before we get to Tom’s rig though, we need to say a few things. You folks…
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Free Hardy Bougle – Steelhead Rig Contest Reminder
Even if you’ve seen it already, make sure you check out our ongoing contest on steelhead rigs. Our readers are submitting their steelhead rigs, and we’re going to pick the best entry and send its author a brand new Hardy Bougle Mk VI 4″ reel. The contest runs through January 6th. Two Big Reasons You…
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Tell Us About Your Steelhead Rig, Win a Hardy Bougle
Some of the most popular posts on our site come from our ‘Expert Rig‘ series – in which we ask a wide range of expert anglers to describe, in detail, how they set up their rigs to fish for various species around the world. There’s a wealth of knowledge in these posts – frankly, your…
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Bonefish Haiku Contest Winner
Congratulations to Bill Bruce – he’s the winner of our bonefish haiku contest! With well over 100 entries, this was a really difficult one to judge – so many of you did an amazing job using 17 syllables to take us right to the flats. But, we had to pick one. Bill was the winner,…
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Bonefish Haiku Contest – Win Abel Nippers
We haven’t run a contest in a while. We have some extra Abel nippers floating around. It’s bonefishing season. We love haiku. Hey, let’s run a bonefish haiku contest and send the winner a free set of Abel nippers! Contest Rules Submit a haiku about bonefish or bonefishing via a comment on this blog post….
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Bonefishing Words
Here are three words we think of what we think about bonefishing. Hot. Blue. Speed. What are the first three words that come to mind when you think about bonefishing? Leave us a comment and let us know! More Reader Input 30 Favorite Travel Tips 51 Things Never Say to Your Fishing Partner 4 Things…
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4 Things We Hate About Fishing
We generally try to keep things pretty positive around here. Fishing’s fun, right? Every once in a while, though, it’s OK to vent…right? Here are 4 things we hate about fishing. Finding trash on the river/lake/flat. Who would do that? No appreciation for ‘non-target species’. As in “you know, a million anglers in Washington would…
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