Charles St. Pierre – spey instructor, fixture at Alaska West and BC West, signature fly tier, great guy to be around, not-too-shabby writer – drops by our blog again today. From our standpoint it feels like Charles’ main goal is to make us even more antsy about the summer fishing that’s coming up after not…
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Steelhead
The Intruder
Warning: this is a very technical post about fly tying. If you’re not interested in the subtleties of tying one of the most influential modern steelhead and salmon patterns, click here to look at a bunch of pictures of fish. Jerry French may not have a household name in the world of anadromous angling in…
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Lower Dean River: Michael White’s Favorite Run
Michael White is a good friend of Deneki Outdoors – former guide at Alaska West, current Simms rep for the Southern Rockies, spey instructor, trip host and one fishy S. O. B. ‘Whitey’ has spent a good chunk of time chasing steelhead on the Dean River, and today he checks in with a writeup on…
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Favorite Steelhead Rod Roundup
Early last week we asked our loyal readers about which rods you like to fish most for steelhead. Just like we did with our polls about trout rods and bonefish rods, today we’re here to give you the results. Single Handed or Double-Handed? You guys like fishing two-handed rods! Note: there was one switch rod…
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What’s Your Favorite Steelhead Rod?
Way back when we had some great discussion on our blog when we asked folks what their favorite rods were to use when fly fishing for trout and bonefish (err, not at the same time, of course). In fact we felt like we learned enough that we should write up some conclusions for each, which…
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Nice Fish, Jerry.
Jerry Arnold is a good friend who has joined us at three of our operations in both hemispheres. When he came up with this beautiful hen steelhead fishing at BC West on the Dean River this past summer, we were just as excited as he looks in this picture. Nice fish, Jerry! More Nice Fish…
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Dean River Steelhead Fly Selection
Dean River. Steelhead. Fly Selection. George Cook – Northwest Angling Luminary. Video. If you’re viewing this in a newsletter or a reader, click here to see the video on YouTube. More Gear for BC West Tom Larimer’s Steelhead Rig Sage 7126-4 TCX – The Death Star Polyleaders
Slab.
In the world of angling, there are lots of different words that translate roughly to ‘big fish’. This past July at BC West on the Dean, Steven Nelson got a fish in Tony’s that’s definitely best described as a ‘slab’. Nice fish, Steven. More on the Dean River Speypages Week on the Dean What it’s…
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Nice Fish, Kerry
Kerry Kilpatrick joined us at BC West during the third week of July in 2009. On the last day of her trip, she came up with this beauty. Nice fish, Kerry! More Nice Fish Nice Rainbow Trout Nice Chilean Chinooks Nice Dean River Coho
The Dean in August – Your Quiver
Today we’re continuing our series on rods quivers – combinations of rods that you should bring to our fisheries at various times of year. August on our piece of the Dean represents the second half of our steelhead season. We fish the Dean for steelhead both below the canyon, and on the 3 miles of…
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