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2021 Holiday Gift Guide – Part 5

This week for our suggested gift for the Fly Fisher in your life, the gift of experience! Our 2021 Holiday Gift…

4 years ago

Guide’s Nymph Tying Tutorial

The Guide’s Nymph: a pattern that goes by many different names, can be tied in an infinite variation of colors…

4 years ago

Hunting The Hunter

I firmly believe that there is no single “right way” to fly fish.  I’ll happily crawl through a thicket of…

5 years ago

New Zealand, The Supreme DIY Fly Fishing Adventure

As a do-it-yourself destination for the traveling fly angler, a New Zealand experience may surpass any other possibility.  Despite its…

5 years ago

Mtn Ranks: RUNOFF – Fly Fishing Tips For High Water

Editors Note: This video is produced by good friend of Fishwest, Ross Downard. For those who don't know Ross, he is…

5 years ago

Lakes: They Might Be Growing On Me

It was that time of year again in my neck of the woods. The time of the season where we…

6 years ago

The Opportunity of Disappointment

Standing. Waiting. Drifting.  Every time you fish this section of water you target right behind the same boulder time and time…

7 years ago

The Fish Don’t Care

I have become a bit of a crazy person when it comes to tying flies. My OCD kicks in and…

8 years ago

So, You Want to Fly Fish in the Winter?

By Jake Halle You’ve just ripped open your 23andme results only to discover you’re a quarter neandertal and ten percent…

8 years ago

Fishing New Zealand’s North Island

By Jan Heidel My first trip to New Zealand was 14 years ago. I went there to look at schools…

8 years ago

Alaska Is a Special Place

By JInman Alaska is a special place, there's no arguing that. And for a fly fisherman it is paradise. Between…

8 years ago

Choosing The Right Guide

By Dave S When pursuing a fishery or a species you haven’t fished before, many of us turn to local…

8 years ago