Reels

What’s Your Favorite Saltwater Reel?

March 2, 2013

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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Bonefishing Gear Roundup

August 16, 2011

Judging by the number of folks we’re hearing from recently, an awful lot of you are in the middle of planning your bonefishing trips for the upcoming season. One very important part of trip planning is getting your gear ready to go, so we figured it was a good time for a roundup of some [...]

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Ross F1 Reel Review

April 18, 2011

Back in September we ran an introductory post with information about Ross’s new F1 reel – with video straight from the show floor at IFTD. Brad Befus gave us all kinds of detail about the design of the F1, and that was awesome…but last month we got to fish one on the flats of South [...]

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Using Drag – Steelhead and Chinooks

March 14, 2011

Scott Baker-McGarva, the man who runs our fishing program at BC West, has some thoughts for us today on actually making use of that amazing drag system that came with your big game reel. Drag? Drag from the Reel? Today’s big game reels are amazing, what with cork disc drags, Teflon, Rulon and sealed, multi-ball [...]

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Michael White’s Chile Trout Rig

November 15, 2010

Today we’ve got another in our long line of ‘Expert Rig’ posts – giving you a detailed look at how various career anglers set up their stuff when they go fishing. Michael White – Simms/Ross/Idylwilde rep, former Alaska guide, music trivia boy genius – likes fishing with us at Chile West. Here’s his rig for [...]

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Michael White’s Bonefish Rig

October 25, 2010

Michael White fishes lots of different places around the world as a manufacturer’s rep for Simms, Ross and Idylwilde. One of the places he visits every year happens to be Andros South. On any given day at Andros South, here’s the rig that you’re likely to find Whitey using to chase bonefish. The Summary Ross [...]

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Sage 6080 Reel

June 11, 2010

One third of our zany $1375 Sage Xi3 package drawing (you’re signed up, right?) is a Sage 6080 reel. We used this particular reel a bit during Deneki FIBFest on South Andros, and guess what – we continued to like it. We’ve had great luck with the high-end Sage reels at Andros South – the [...]

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Free Sage Xi3 Setup, Anyone?

May 28, 2010

Everyone who is signed up for our weekly newsletter on June 25 has a shot at winning a (very slightly used) Sage 890-4 Xi3 rod, a Sage 6080 reel and a matching Rio Tropical Clouser line. Really? Really. If you’ve been reading our blog over the past few weeks you haven’t been able to get [...]

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