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Taking It All In

March 6, 2013
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Our friend Richard from England, taking it all in from the banks of the Dean River. More from the Dean River Sage ONE 10130-4 Spey Rod Review Almost Got the Hero Shot Fired Up

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Tom Larimer’s Steelhead Rig, 2013 Edition

February 28, 2013
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We ran our first Expert Rig post over four years ago.  Whoa! That’s pretty cool…except for the fact that things have changed a lot in the past four years.  We’ve heard from quite a few of you that you’d like updates on what our fishing experts are fishing now, so today we start the very [...]

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Casting in Paradise

February 11, 2013
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The most beautiful place in the world to wet a line, maybe? More on the Dean River Big Flies, Leaders and More Top Posts on Dean Chinooks Our Fishery

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Tube Flies for King Salmon

February 5, 2013
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Our buddy and spey instructor Tom Larimer just posted a really good, really thorough article about tube flies and king salmon. Tom’s article covers Tube selection Stacking tubes Bullet weights Fly colors, and Rigging stinger hooks. If you like tube flies or king salmon (or Tom Larimer), you should swing on by his web site [...]

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Standoff at Tidewater

February 1, 2013
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We talk a lot about how we catch very fresh steelhead at BC West because we chase them right after they leave saltwater.  We think Scott’s photo above illustrates the point nicely. That moving water in the foreground?  That’s the Dean River. That water back and to the left that looks a little more slack? [...]

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Michael White’s Steelhead Rig

January 19, 2013
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We’ve had a flurry of posts recently about steelhead rigging, and in the process of revisiting everything we’ve written we realized that somehow, in the past 4 years, we’ve never run the Expert Rig of one of the most qualified guys out there.  Today we right that wrong. Michael White a. k. a. “Whitey” is [...]

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Your Steelhead Rigs

January 14, 2013
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When more than 80 of you really thoughtfully wrote up your steelhead rigs for our free Bougle contest, you helped created a really cool resource.  Already more than 1600 unique anglers have checked out that page, and they’ve no doubt gotten some new ideas on steelhead rigging, at the very least. Looking at all those [...]

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Bougle Contest Winner – Tom Ehrhard’s Steelhead Rig

January 8, 2013
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We’re thrilled to present to you the winner of a brand new Hardy Bougle, courtesy of our ‘Tell Us About Your Steelhead Rig’ contest.  Tom Ehrhard took this one home with his entry that appears in its entirety below. Before we get to Tom’s rig though, we need to say a few things.  You folks [...]

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Best Steelhead Fishing Posts of 2012

January 3, 2013
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…and our end-of-year/beginning-of-year series of our top posts of 2012 continues!  Today it’s all about steelhead fishing. If you were out for the holidays – over the past couple of weeks we’ve already given you our top gear posts and our top bonefishing posts. Best Steelhead Fishing Posts of 2012 Sage 8136-4 ONE Spey Rod [...]

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