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Timeless Tip Tuesday

Timeless Tips: 4 Ways to Fish Dries in Alaska

Everybody loves fishing dry flies.  There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program.  Here are 4 ways…
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Timeless Tips: 5 Ways to Blow a Shot at a Bonefish

Don’t want to catch a bonefish? Pick one or more of these simple tips and you’ll be not catching fish in no time! Wear wading boots in the boat. If you’re casting from the boat and you’re wearing shoes of any kind, you won’t know if you’re standing on your fly line. Always, always, always…
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Timeless Tips: Popper Fishing for Salmon – 5 Tips

We’re fortunate to live on a river that has an extremely productive silver salmon fishery (from late July through early September), and by far our favorite way to target them is on poppers! Yep, most likely the same style of flies used on your local bass pond. Although not usually as productive as streamers, under the…
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Timeless Tips: Casting on the Flats – Top 3 Tips

We’ve given an awful lot of different casting advice to our guests at Andros South over the years.  We could write a book! That being said, there are some issues that we see over and over, and some advice that we give over and over. If we had to pick our top 3 casting tips…
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Timeless Tips: Chum Salmon – Fly Fishing Techniques

Our annual chum salmon run is in full force, which is why today we present you with a great post from our pal, Brian Niska, on some tactics and gear advice when fishing for chum salmon on the Kanektok River as part of our ‘timeless tip tuesday’ series of posts. Who’s Brian?  He’s a much better spey…
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Timeless Tip Tuesday: Rainbow Trout Lies

We asked our Deneki Expert Panel a question a little while back about trout lies – no, not the tall tales that trout spin about the size of the anglers who almost caught them, the places in the river where trout like to live. A later post will give a number of bits of wisdom…
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Timeless Tip Tuesday: 3 Ways to Cast Further

Casting a long ways is not anywhere close to the most important skill in fly fishing.  We’d actually tell you that casting too far is one of the leading causes of not catching fish…but that’s a topic for another day! Bombing long casts is fun, and every once in a while, you need to cast…
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Timeless Tips: Lake Fishing With a Tough Backcast

George Cook with some video commentary on fly fishing lakes. The topic de jour is some techniques for dealing with a difficult backcast. In this video, George talks about The fact that some of the best spots in lakes, like bays, can have very tough backcast conditions How basic rollcasting can work How a single hand…
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Timeless Tip Tuesday: Swinging Flies – Cast, Then Step

Cast, mend, swing fly, take a few steps downriver, repeat.  That’s how you fish for steelhead, right? Not necessarily.  Michael White stops by in video form today, straight from the Dean River, to tell us a bit about how he likes to present flies to steelhead. The basic idea – rather than stepping downriver after…
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