Earlier this month our good friends from The Flyfish Journal, hands down one of our favorite fly fishing publications, joined us for their fifth consecutive ‘Bamahacon’ pilgrimage to Andros South. They just released a great online photo essay of their trip featuring stunning images, great writing, and video cut, and if you haven’t already, we urge you…
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Strong Shoulder Spey Casting Tips from Airflo
Last week we shared with you a great video from the folks at Airflo featuring some great spey casting tips when fishing shorter skagit-style heads on switch rods. In case you missed it, make sure to give it a watch by clicking right here. Well, they’re at it again, this time with some helpful tips…
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Spey Casting Tips for Switch Rods from Airflo
In case you haven’t heard, earlier this year the folks at Airflo introduced their latest spey line, the Skagit Scout – Their shortest skagit head to date designed to make easy work of switch rods, shorter spey rods, and single hand spey casts. With their release of the Skagit Scout, they’ve also been pumping out some…
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Anatomy of a Tube Fly – Video from HMH
On more than one occasion, we’ve told you how much we love fishing tube flies at our lodges. Not only are they super fun to tie, but they offer a number of advantages over conventional flies tied directly onto the shank of a hook. However, despite their advantages, those new to tubes often find it a…
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Jerry French’s Summer Sculpin – Fly Tying Video
Our friends at North 40 Fly Shop recently teemed up with Alaska West alum, Jerry French, on how to tie Jerry’s ‘Summer Sculpin’ – A killer fly pattern for trout and steelhead wherever sculpin are found (hint: that’s just about every river in the world). If you like tying flies, and are planning on swinging for…
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Spey TV Episode 8: The Step and Slide
The boys from Spey TV are back with another great video featuring spey casting and fishing tips from some of the best in the business. Their latest video features Deneki pal, Charles St. Pierre, on the fundamentals of efficiently working down a run while swinging flies, and you can watch it right this second by…
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Finding Fontinalis – Full Feature Release
Last spring, the good folks at Patagonia, along with generous sponsors (Far Bank Enterprises, YETI, and Costa Del Mar), presented the fly fishing world with a condensed cut of their film, Finding Fontinalis, for the 2016 Fly Fishing Film Tour. The film told the story of one of the oldest recorded fishing world records in history, a…
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Managing Running Line – Video from Mike McCune
Last week week we shared with you a killer spey casting video from the folks at Headhunters Fly Shop featuring Mike McCune on the finer points of the downstream perry poke cast – particularly when casting short two handers for trout. If you missed it, not to worry, you can watch it by clicking right…
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The Downstream Perry Poke – Video
When it comes to Skagit style spey casting, the Perry Poke is arguably one of the most versatile casts out there. It can be used to produce fishable casts in the trickiest of casting situations, not to mention its just plain fun to throw. The good folks at Headhunter’s Fly Shop recently put together a killer video…
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When Guides Get (Too) Excited
What does a fishing guide do during their time off? The best ones go fishing. And, regardless of how many days a year they spend staring at the water, great guides never quite lose that same level of excitement they felt the first time they caught a fish on a fly rod. There just may be…
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