Reader Input

What Do You Want Us To Write About?

March 14, 2013
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Our little community on the internet continues to grow far beyond anything we expected.  That’s awesome – and that means there are a lot of new folks around! We really value the input that we get from you and we haven’t asked in a while, so we’re dedicating today to a simple question. What do [...]

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What’s Your Favorite Saltwater Reel?

March 2, 2013
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It’s poll time here at the Deneki blog! There are a bunch of quality reels out there these days that do a great job in the saltwater. We want to hear about your favorite fly reel for fishing in the saltwater, and why you like it. Any size, any price point. Any saltwater fishery – [...]

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Worst Fishing Tip Ever – Winner

February 25, 2013
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A couple of weeks ago we asked you to submit the worst fishing tips you’ve ever received – and you folks came up with some dandies!  Wow, there’s a lot of bad advice out there. The winner of our contest was Alaska West guest Derek Fritz, who had the misfortune of being told… “Oh my [...]

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Want to Write a Guest Post for Us?

February 16, 2013
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We love running quality guest posts on our blog – we’ve run 126 of them so far.  They’re a great way for us to share great content with our readers, and also a great way for you to get your content in front of our readers.  If you’d like to submit a guest post for [...]

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Worst Fishing Tips Ever – More Free Nippers

February 9, 2013
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What’s the worst fishing tip you’ve ever received?  Leave us a comment and let us know – this should be fun!  You could win yourself a free pair of Abel nippers too. We’ll start with an example. Your humble editor decided to leave the wife’s first casting lesson to a neutral third party.  That was [...]

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Bonefishing Story Contest Winner

February 4, 2013
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You all wrote up some great tales as entries to our Best Bonefishing Story contest.  Brenda Mantz was a our winner with the piece that appears below.  We asked for fishing stories and Brenda submitted literature.  Awesome. A pair of Abel nippers and a bonefish t-shirt are headed Brenda’s way.  Stay tuned for more contests. [...]

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5 Ways to Simplify Your Fishing Gear

January 29, 2013
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If you’re a fly fishing gearhead like us, you know that no matter what you’re fishing for, you can make your gear just about as complicated as you like. Sometimes playing with gear is fun and adds to the experience.  Other times, it’s nice to simplify. We’ll just throw out a few ideas – we’d [...]

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Tell Us Your Best Bonefishing Story

January 22, 2013
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It’s contest time again here on the Deneki blog! We’re going to send the author of our favorite bonefishing story a free pair of Abel nippers and a free Deneki / Ed Hepp bonefish t-shirt. The rules of this one are really, really simple. Tell us your best bonefishing story as a comment on this [...]

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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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