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Five (5) Reasons Chile Should Be the Next Country You Visit to Fly Fish By Mike Mercer 1. Fishing with Dry Flies and Streamers If you enjoy catching big, beautiful trout on large, easy-to-see dry flies, you are going to fall in love with Chile. Almost everywhere we fish in Chilean Patagonia, both the beastly, (more…)

2020 Louisiana Redfish Eleven Outpost Liveaboard 25 November 25 – December – 01, 2020 by Justin Miller  Recently I had the opportunity to join a small group of friends at Eleven’s Louisiana Redfish operation aboard the Outpost Mothership.  It was a absolutely great experience, and a program that The Fly Shop® is excited to offer (more…)

Fantastic Alaska Lodge Openings in 2021 – Last Best Options! Many Alaska lodges did not open due to COVID in 2020, instead rolling all their guests to 2021. As a result, most outfitters are starting out this coming season heavily booked. Yet there are still prime openings at some of the finest destinations in the (more…)

The Fly Shop’s 2021/2022 Best Travel Picks 2021 is here – and with multiple vaccines on the horizon! For many people, this long-awaited new year will bring back the hope of fly fishing travel. We expect the early days of post-Covid travel will be marked by people’s continued desire to experience destinations that keep them (more…)

Albula vulpes – Bonefish by Eric Ersch & Pat Pendergast More fly fishers got their start in saltwater fly fishing pursuing bonefish than any other species. One of the nice things about bonefishing is that the proper equipment needed to catch them successfully often comes down to common fly rod weights and size — a (more…)

Belize is a small English-speaking country in Central America, bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east, dense jungle and mountainous terrain to the west, and just over a two-hour flight from Houston or Miami. The coastline of this Caribbean nation stretches a total of 170 miles north to south, is home to the world’s (more…)

The Fly Shop® is Bullish on Tsimane’s Dorado Camps for 2021. We’re going long on the fabulous Bolivian dorado fishery – Tsimane in 2021! Tsimane blends, like no other destination on Earth, the best aspects of fly fishing: sight casting, freestone mountain rivers, wading, clear waters, floating lines, and four different exotic jungle species of (more…)

Steelhead Heaven – Sandy River Lodge, Aleutian Peninsula, Alaska Our good friend and seasoned International fly fishing traveler Tim Hagerty had an amazing steelhead trip on the Sandy River this fall. Check out Tim’s report below…it’s a good one! This is a report on a unique fly fishing adventure for the elusive and prized quarry, (more…)

2020 Alaska & Lava Creek Lodge End of Season Report There is always a bright side, no matter how dark things seem!  And that was certainly the case when it came to sportfishing in Alaska this summer.  With Covid numbers escalating in the US this past spring, and nearly all other countries in the world (more…)

Permit Pursuit by Pat Pendergast I have been told hundreds of times over the last twenty five years that I must be the luckiest guy in the world…that I have the best damn job a person could ever dream of. I used to brush this off, downplaying it with some mumbo jumbo about it being (more…)