Dry flies

4 Ways to Fish Dry Flies in Alaska

January 9, 2013
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Everybody loves fishing dry flies.  There’s just nothing that beats the excitement of a surface take. In Western Alaska we fish dry flies quite a lot, but the vast majority of the time they’re about as far as you can get from a traditional “match the hatching insect” dry fly program.  Here are 4 ways [...]

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Twitching Skaters

November 6, 2012
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Fishing a dryline and skater for steelhead rules. Hitched muddlers. Bombers. Big foam creations—whatever. Love it all. There’s just something magic about the way our big, hot,  Dean steelhead respond to the dry and the fact they tend to absolutely crush them makes the whole business of surface fishing even better! For those who agree, [...]

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The Proper Reaction

August 11, 2011
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Captain Josh Temple demonstrates the appropriate feelings that follow the landing of a 35″ Dean steelhead on a dry fly. Nice work, Josh. More on Dean Steelhead All About Steelhead on the Dean The Dean is Back (It’s Really Back This Year) Big Flies, Leaders and More

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Pop, Pop, Pop…

June 17, 2011
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When the silvers are around in numbers (that’s late July through early September in our neck of the woods at Alaska West), one of our favorite methods is to fish poppers. It’s pretty simple. Locate pack of bright silvers. Huck floating line and popper out into the middle of ‘em. Strip abruptly, making the popping, [...]

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Stock Your Fly Boxes

April 30, 2011
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7 weeks until we open on the Dean. More on the Dean River Guest Post – an Evening on the Dean 5 Cool Things About the Dean The Rig Our Head Guide Fishes

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Idylwilde Flies for Chile

March 20, 2011
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Michael White is back today with another fly lineup.  Having spent approximately 300 million days fishing for trout around the Southern Rockies, Whitey is a good guy to listen to when it comes to advice on trout flies. After he joined us on an epic trip to Chile West, we asked him for his top [...]

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Going Small

January 27, 2011
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At Chile West we love fishing giant dry flies and streamers.  The beauty of that fishery, though, is its variety.  Today Trevor Covich tells us about the other end of the spectrum. Going Small Sometimes at Chile West we go away from casting and chugging those giant dries and leeches, for a more delicate approach. [...]

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Fishing Dropper Rigs

November 1, 2010
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What’s a “Dropper Rig”?  Maybe you know and fish them all the time, but just in case you don’t… “Dropper” is the term for a nymph pattern that’s fished in combination with a dry fly.  The nymph pattern drops in the water and floats below the dry fly, so it’s called a “dropper”.  Simple, right? [...]

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Make It a Meal

July 26, 2010
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Today we continue our series of weekly posts straight from The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing – a new collection of 250 nuggets of fly fishing wisdom from Kirk Deeter and the late, great Charlie Meyers.  We’re lucky enough to have gotten permission to post some excerpts from the book  - read on! Our [...]

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