March 2009

South Andros – Easy Access!

March 31, 2009

Loading up in Fort Lauderdale. One of the great things about visiting Andros South is that it’s really easy to get there. Lynx Air International operates direct flights from Fort Lauderdale to the Congo Town airport on South Andros.  The flight takes about an hour, and the Congo Town airport is all of a 20-minute [...]

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Why a Mobile Program?

March 30, 2009

In Southern Chile, sometimes it makes sense to hit the road. Deneki Outdoors owns and operates four fly fishing operations.  Three of them – Alaska West, BC West and Andros South – are fixed-base lodges.  At Chile West, we run a mobile program, in which we stay in several different locations and fish a bunch [...]

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Weekly Newsletter Signup

March 29, 2009

Keep yourself informed. Photo: Cameron Miller We’ve added an option to sign up for a newsletter with weekly updates from our blog – previously your options were every day, or not at all. Interested?  Just enter your email address in the ‘Weekly Email Newsletter’ section on the right-hand size of this page, click the Submit [...]

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More Than a Trip Report from Mike Racine

March 28, 2009

Mike Racine, with just one element of a superlative day Mike Racine is a long-time friend, and in the spirit of full disclosure, an investor in Deneki Outdoors.  He contributed the great piece that runs today.  We’ll like Mike do the talking. — “Fishing Reference Points” No this isn’t a technical article on targeting fish. [...]

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Adam Tavender’s Steelhead Rig

March 27, 2009

Adam Tavender with some Dean chome. Photo: David Lambroughton Adam Tavender has been a part of Nakia Lodge on the Dean River since 1993.  In early 2007, we at Deneki Outdoors had the good fortune to ‘take the torch’ from Adam and his wife Judy, and we now run the lodge as BC West. Having [...]

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South Andros Fisheries Part Four – Inland Wading

March 26, 2009

There’s a lot of water in the middle of this island. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve written about the three most conventional fisheries on South Andros – our east side creeks, The South and The West. Today we cover the most unusual of our fisheries – our inland wading. When you look at [...]

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Simms Headwaters Backpacks

March 25, 2009

A good choice for a day on the water. Photo: Simms Fishing Products Simms has come out with a whole bunch of really good new packs this year, and one of our favorites is the Headwaters Day Pack.  Like its big brother the Headwaters Backpack, it’s a really well-designed pack, purpose-built for fishing. The feature [...]

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Chile Fly Fishing Tactics

March 24, 2009

This brown liked Chris’s tactics. Our environment at Chile West is changing day to day as we travel to new fisheries and different climates, so we change the methods we use to fish. We fish it all, from big, wide, deep rivers, to small shallow rivers or creeks, to lakes. We fish from boats or [...]

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What’s a Tent Lodge?

March 23, 2009

Home sweet home on the Kanektok Photo: Cameron Miller At Alaska West, we call ourselves a ‘tent lodge‘.  We are not shy about what we are and what we’re not.  We are a high-quality operation, right on top of an incredible fishery.  We are not even trying to be a ‘luxury lodge’.  We don’t have cognac, [...]

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