Trip Reports

BC West Report from Steven Brutger

August 29, 2012
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We love it when our guests take the time to write up their experiences at our lodges.  Steven Brutger joined us at BC West this year, and apparently he liked it! Thanks for the great account, Steven! The Dean- An Account from a Wyoming Trout Fisherman It’s 11:30am on a Friday and I’m sitting at [...]

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Andros South 2012 Trip Report by Capt. Rick Grassett

June 18, 2012
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One of our longest-standing hosts at Andros South is Captain Rick Grassett out of Sarasota, Florida.  Our crew at the lodge looks forward to fishing with Rick and his gang each year, and we really appreciate Rick putting together great reports from his trips. Here’s the lowdown on 2012.  Thanks, Rick! Capt. Rick Grassett’s Andros [...]

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Andros Trip Report from Gabe Nyblad

December 27, 2011
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Gabe Nyblad is a fantastic guide and a good buddy of ours.  We’ve been working on him to join us at Andros South for a few years now, and he finally made it down earlier this month. We always love getting perspective on our operations from other folks in the industry, so we talked Gabe [...]

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IWFF Festival Report

October 18, 2011
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Last month Kellsey Perkins, the financial mastermind at Deneki Outdoors, joined a bunch of like-minded women at the International Women Fly Fishers’ annual festival.  Here’s her report on the highlights. IWFF Festival Report I just returned from the International Women Fly Fishers Festival near Bozeman, MT along the Gallatin River. Amazing women, incredible experience. What [...]

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10 Things That Happened at Alaska West This Year

September 22, 2011
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“We had another great year at Alaska West.” Our home rivers at Alaska West are such incredible fisheries that we sometimes lose perspective.  Our fishing is just so darned productive and so darned consistent – it’s not like this everywhere, even in Alaska!  In the face of challenging returns elsewhere in the state and in [...]

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Another Great Year on the Dean

September 15, 2011
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Right about this time last year, we ran an article called The Dean is Back.  After several years at BC West that were solid by normal standards but slow by Dean standards, 2010 marked a return to ‘typical’ fishing for the Dean – that is, large numbers of insane steelhead and king salmon. Today we’re [...]

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5 Surprises from Alaska West

August 15, 2011
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Kellsey Perkins runs the numbers for us here at Deneki Outdoors.  We recently let her out of the office long enough for her to take her first trip to Alaska West, and she was pretty blown away by the whole experience. We thought a first-timer’s perspective would be interesting, so we asked her to put [...]

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Alaska West Trip Report

July 5, 2011
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Tom Larimer is fresh off the plane from his hosted week at Alaska West.  The fish gods smiled on him, and you can read about that fact in Tom’s report.  Thanks Tom! Week Three Report Anadromous fishing, no matter which location or species, is always a little bit of a gamble. While historic run timing for [...]

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The Unspookable School

June 13, 2011
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Duranglers fly shop owner Tom Knopick hosted his second annual trip to Andros South during the last week of April this year.  We asked Tom for a couple of anecdotes from his trip, and he sent us this one about a group of fish that was happy to play. The Unspookable School Success on the [...]

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