November 2010

Estamos Listos

November 30, 2010

For those of you who don’t speak Spanish, ‘Estamos Listos’ is our very rough translation of ‘Game On’, because today the first guests of our season are arriving at Chile West. It’s our third season operating in Chile, and we’re really happy to be back at it. From now through the end of April, we’ll [...]

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Mending – Lift and Lay

November 29, 2010

Today we’ve got part 3 in our mini-series about mending your fly line, and we’re covering some of the finer points of mending. Is this the glamorous stuff? No, not really. Will this stuff help you catch more fish? Heck yes. Mending Part 3 Let’s say, for the sake of example, we are mending upstream. [...]

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Silver Salmon Basics

November 28, 2010

Justin Jackson, Alaska West guide extraordinaire, drops by our blog in video format today to walk us through the basics of silver salmon fishing on the Kanektok. Here’s the outline for Silver Fishing 101. Fish slow pockets of water. Use a floating line and a weighted fly to get a nice jigging action when you [...]

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Eagle’s Nest

November 27, 2010

On the Lower Dean River below the canyon, many of the runs that we fish for steelhead and chinooks are rippin’ fast. Dean fish are strong, so they hold in water where a lot of other critters can’t. Just below the mouth of the canyon, however, is Eagle’s Nest – a giant bouldery glide that [...]

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Bonefish and Mangroves

November 26, 2010

Bonefish and mangroves go together like chocolate and peanut butter, like Sonny and Cher, like Jack and Diane. Here’s why. Mangroves provide important rearing habitat for all kinds of little critters that bonefish like to eat. Mangroves provide cover for bonefish, allowing them to travel far inland on a high tide to eat, but still [...]

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Why We’re Thankful

November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving! Here at Deneki Outdoors we’re really lucky to get to fish all the time in four of the most incredible fisheries in the world. In fact, we’ve got a lot of things to be thankful for. Here are the first 10 that came to mind. The fact that bonefish on South Andros tail, [...]

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Present the Fly Quickly

November 24, 2010

“Get it in the ballpark quickly.” “You don’t have to cast 80 feet onto a dinner plate.” “Speed is more important than distance.” We get asked a lot about what kind of casting skill is required to catch bonefish. We use the three quotes above a lot. On South Andros, our bonefish tend not to [...]

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Nice to Meet You.

November 23, 2010

Hi there. I’m a leopard rainbow trout. I live in the Kanektok River in Southwest Alaska. Let me tell you a little about myself. I’m not as big as lots of my brothers and sisters, but I’ve definitely got the family’s typical pink cheeks and mega-spots. I like hanging out on shelves and dropoffs, around [...]

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Fly Wallets

November 22, 2010

Thanks to Bill Lenehan for another cool guest post about useful fishing gear that you might not find at your local shop. Bill’s last post told us all about Kelly Kettles. Today, it’s worm wallets for big flies. Want to write a guest post for us? Great! Drop us a line. Worm Wallets! Intruders, Skagit [...]

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