September 2009

Share Your Best Gear Ideas

September 21, 2009

Anyone carry one of these? A couple of weeks ago one of our readers, Bill Lenehan, sent in a great idea for a discussion on our blog. He wants to know what cool pieces of gear you bring along on fishing trips! Here’s Bill’s background on the idea. “The post from your experts on the [...]

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Speypages Week on the Dean

September 20, 2009

Dana fishes Bill’s. Dana Sturn, founder of Speypages.com and casting instructor extraordinaire, visited us at BC West on the Dean this year for some Chinook salmon fishing with a few steelhead thrown in as a bonus. He liked it so much he booked the lodge. Dana will be hosting a Speypages Dean River Spey Week [...]

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King Flies – The Mikey Prawn

September 19, 2009

Looks shrimpy, no? Photo: John Ford Brian Niska will be one of our spey instructors at Alaska West in 2010, for the third year running. Today Brian tells us a bit about one of his favorite king flies, the Mikey Prawn. One of Brian’s spey weeks is sold out, but there’s still space in his [...]

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Fly Fishing Retailer Roundup

September 18, 2009

We saw some great flies at FFR too. These are from Solitude. A week ago at this time we were at the Fly Fishing Retailer show in Denver, keeping you updated a couple of times a day on the best new gear at we saw at the show. We got a lot of good feedback [...]

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Fighting Bonefish – 5 Tips

September 17, 2009

Muddy bottom – rod tip high, but bent to the butt. In the past we’ve covered how to spot bonefish, and how to set the hook on a bonefish. Great, you’ve done it all right and you’ve got one hooked up. Now what? Here’s what. Let him run. As soon as you’re confident that you’ve [...]

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Chile Fly Fishing Roundup

September 16, 2009

It’s not an ugly place to fish. We’ve got a whole bunch of posts on our blog about fly fishing in Chile, and we decided it was about time to round ‘em up for you! In honor of the beginning of our second season at Chile West late this year, we present to you our [...]

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Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis – Why We Like It

September 15, 2009

You can cast it overhead too, but we almost never do. If you haven’t noticed, we really like spey fishing for trout, and for swung trout flies in smaller water, we think switch rods are pretty cool too. One of our favorite trout switch rods so far is the Sage 5110-4 Z-Axis. Here’s why. The [...]

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Ask The Experts – Most Common Casting Mistake

September 14, 2009

Andy Kurkulis is not a novice caster. We’re lucky to have a panel of expert anglers from around the world who have agreed to answer our questions every now and again. In today’s edition of “Ask The Experts”, we focused on casting. Here’s the question we posed to our panel. “What’s the casting mistake that [...]

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Angler’s Tonic

September 13, 2009

Greg’s stuff is cool. Photo: Angler’s Tonic Today we’ve got a new fly fishing-related website that we think you should check out. It’s called Angler’s Tonic, and it’s by Greg Thomas. You might know of Greg because he wrote a guest post for us a while back about targeting Fresh Fish. More likely, you know [...]

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