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Dorados On The Fly
May 24, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
Dorados On The Fly, owned by Ricardo “Pinti” Pinto, is an exciting golden dorado fishing destination on the upper Parana River, located near the small fishing village of Ita Ibate, in Northern Argentina province of Corrientes. Pinti is a passionate fly fisher and recognized expert on dorado with a sincere desire to show his guests (more…)
Tarpon Cay Lodge – Mexico
May 3, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
Tarpon Cay’s fishing program is based out of Rio Lagartos, Mexico, a small fishing village on the North West point of the Yucatan Peninsula. Although it is less 3 hours by car from Cancun, it feels like you are in the middle of nowhere and all alone. A mecca for baby tarpon, the area is (more…)
Playa Blanca Lodge
May 2, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
Playa Blanca is a beautiful full service resort located on a secluded white sand beach with several guest bungalows and a central lodge for meals, meetings and cocktail hours. Playa Blanca is located 10 miles south of Casa Blanca (its sister lodge) on Isla Punta Pajaros. Playa Blanca offers world class facilities, a solid fishing (more…)
The Palometa Club
April 27, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
About a 3 hour drive south of Cancun, on the oceanside beach of the little fishing village of Punta Allen sits the Palometa Club. Its location is perfect for searching Ascension Bay for the fish it is famous for; bonefish, tarpon and the lodge’s namesake, permit (“palometa” is Spanish for permit). Anglers also find barracuda (more…)
Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge
April 26, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
Caribbean Wilderness Flats Fishing Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge (ESB), is a wilderness flats fishing destination specifically designed for serious saltwater fly fishers. ESB sits on a remote Caribbean beach in the southernmost part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, just south of the sleepy lobster fishing village of Punta Herrero and within the massive 1.3 million acre (more…)
Casa Blanca Lodge
April 26, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
If one were to dream up the perfect location for a saltwater flats fishing lodge, it would be hard to find one better than on the private island of Punta Pajaros directly between Ascension Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay in the Mexican Yucatan (south of Cancun) in the middle of the Sian Ka’an Bioshpere. Casa (more…)
Campeche Tarpon
April 26, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
On the western side of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula at about 19 degrees north latitude, approximately 300 miles South and East of Cancun, you’ll find the old Spanish colonial city of Campeche. For a very old city, it took fly fishers a long time to discover it. Until very recently, it wasn’t on the map (more…)
St. Brandon’s Atoll – Mauritius
April 25, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
If you are an absolute bonefish or permit junkie, St Brandon’s Atoll may be your Nirvana. The bones consistently get double digits and there is no place in the Indian Ocean that you will get as many shots at perms as you will at this remote destination. This is the place for guys that want (more…)
Farquhar Atoll, Seychelles
April 25, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
The Seychelles is one of the most exotic saltwater fishing destinations in the world! Fishing there has, over the past few years, become synonymous with the term “fly fishing paradise” and has provided all those fortunate enough to visit her shores the opportunity to fish some of the finest and most productive flats the Indian (more…)
Alphonse Island Resort, Seychelles
April 24, 2017 | Terry Jepsen
Alphonse is legendary as one of the finest Seychelles saltwater fly fisheries in the world. The flats of nearby St. Francois Atoll offer over 10,000 acres of perfect wading, limited to just 12 rods a week. Alphonse offers a veritable paradise for the flats angler, including schools of large bonefish patrolling the vast area of (more…)