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Scott Baker-McGarva

Aug 22 2013

Landing Steelhead – Try Upstream!

Upriver on the Dean

Time for more steelhead fishing wisdom from Scott Baker-McGarva, head guide at BC West! Go Upstream Sometimes when you leave an angler for a bit, you return only to see them struggling with a fish close to shore, (sometimes you need to leave the client to improve their mojo and fish attraction) and many will…
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Aug 03 2013

Intermediate Heads on the Dean River

Dean River Intermediate Heads

Over the past couple of years the major spey line manufacturers have come out with partly-intermediate and/or full intermediate Skagit heads – the Airflo Skagit Intermediate, the Rio Skagit iFlight and the SA Skagit Extreme Intermediate, to name a few. Today we hear from Scott Baker-McGarva, BC West Head Guide, about why these heads are…
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Jun 06 2013

Roll Casting for Bonefish

Bonefishing on Cloudy Days

Let’s do bonefishing tips from a steelhead guy! Scott Baker-McGarva, our head guide at BC West, just got back from Andros South – yes, there are benefits to working for Deneki Outdoors.  He checks in today with a great reminder to utilize that most ‘basic’ of casts – the roll cast – when light is…
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Aug 03 2012

Ready, Aim…

Spey Cast on the Dean River

Scott Baker-McGarva blasts one across the Dean. More on Spey Casting All About Spey Fishing Roundup Wade Shallow and Relax Dana Sturn’s Steelhead Rig

Jun 19 2012

Pick Any Color, As Long As It’s Black

Black Flies

Scott Baker-McGarva.  Head guide at BC West on the Dean.  Black flies. Pick Any Color, As Long As It’s Black! Call me Canadian…since I am, but once I got called out for being a ‘Canuck’, simply because of my choice of steelhead fly color. It took place on the Sauk one fine spring day many moons ago….
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May 31 2012

Oh No, Not ‘The Claw’!

The Claw

Our head guide at BC West on the Dean River is Scott Baker-McGarva.  Scott fears the Claw, and he wrote up this little ditty on why you should too. If you want to fish the Dean with Scott and the rest of our crew this summer, you still have a couple of chances – get…
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May 12 2012

Taking Pictures of Fish – The Right Way

Steelhead Pictures

We’ve run posts in the past with some tips on taking pictures of fish – but given what we see out there on the water, we’re considering this a ‘continuing education’ topic.  We hate seeing fish handled poorly and then released. Scott Baker-McGarva, our head guide at BC West, put together some instructions on how…
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May 03 2012

Intermediate Tips and You

Intermediate Tips

Scott  Baker-McGarva, our head guide at BC West on the Dean River, checks in today with more tips for your anadromous angling pleasure.  Our topic?  The Rodney Dangerfield of sinktips – the intermediate. Intermediate Tips and You If there is an unused tip in your sink-tip wallet, my money would say it’s an intermediate one. You…
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Sep 26 2011

Just Another Day at the Office

Day at the Office

Pictured above is Scott Baker-McGarva, head guide at BC West, at his desk, pondering corporate objectives, strategic synergies, etc. The view from his office is better than the view from yours.  Sorry. More on BC West Introduction to BC West BC West in Fly Rod & Reel Chinook Flies for the Dean

Aug 29 2011

Get in There!

Get in the Net

Dave Baca and Scott Baker-McGarva land a steelhead in a very pretty place. More Pretty Places Arolik River Kanektok River South Andros Island

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