Whitey wades well. OK, you’ve decided that you’re going to chase some bonefish on foot. Want to make sure you actually catch one? Here are 5 ways to improve your chances. Walk quietly. Bonefish sense noise and vibration from a long way away. If you’re on a flat with a hard bottom, step softly –…
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Gear Review: The newest Simms® G4 Pro Boot
Eventually, everyone is going to need new wading boots. Wading boots are essential for all anglers alike. Nowadays, wading boots are designed and built to fit more like hiking boots, and for good reason. If you fish, a lot of times you’re going to do a lot of hiking, and having a comfortable, well-fitting boot…
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Listen While You Walk
Ask nine out of ten saltwater anglers their favorite thing about bonefish (or other flats species for that matter) and odds are you’ll get a response somehow related to the parallel between fishing and hunting. Stalking your quarry, only ever making a cast once you (or your guide of course) has spotted a fish, is…
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Be Safe Out There – Wear Your Wading Belt
On many rivers around the country, spring means run-off season, and with it means big water and cold water temperatures. Therefore, we thought it would a good time for a friendly reminder – Whenever wearing waders in, on, or around the water, please, wear your wading belt. Everybody takes a spill in the river from time…
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Roll Down Your Wading Socks
Today we’re coming at you with a super simple, yet super helpful tip, often learned the hard way by many of our anglers at Andros South, particularly those wading for bonefish for the first time. On South Andros, we’re lucky to have a lot of opportunities to pursue bonefish on foot. However, the typical bottom structure…
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Walk This Way
Just moments before Andros South guest, Sue Conatser, stuck not one, but two, bonefish in consecutive casts on a quick mission away from the boat with guide, Charlie Sweeting. Sometimes it pays to take a hike.. More on Wading for Bonefish Wading for Bonefish – 5 Tips Wading for Bonefish – 5 (More) Tips Wading for…
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Fish Hard, Wade Easy
We could talk all day long about why we love our home river at Alaska West – from our impressive run of chrome bright king salmon, to our stunning resident leopard rainbow trout, to our staggering numbers of aggressive cohos, to our, well, you get the point. However, one aspect of our river that many…
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Wading for Bonefish – Lift Your Toes
Whenever conditions allow, we love chasing bonefish on foot, and we’re really lucky to do so a lot on South Andros. Wading for bonefish is not only super fun, but its also a great way to creep up on wary fish that might otherwise be difficult to reach from the boat – that is of course,…
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Simms BackSaver Wading Belt
We fish hard at our lodges. At Alaska West, our fishing program consists of six consecutive ten hour days. That’s 60 hours straight of continuous casting, wading, hiking, and not mention fighting a whole bunch of heavy fish. It might not seem like much to the uninitiated, but that much activity can leave even the most…
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Orvis Andros Flats Hiker Boots
One of our favorite ways to target bonefish (and we have a feeling, your’s too) is on foot. There’s something about stalking fish on foot that gets an angler’s blood pumping, and we’re really lucky to do a lot of it at Andros South. In fisheries like ours, there are a whole bunch of huge…
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