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Flyfishing for science… and the biggest, brightest steelhead that’ll ever grab your fly! Kamchatka is home to Asia’s only population of the legendary steelhead, and the only way to legally target them is through a scientific research project… To participate you donate to the cause, then become a volunteer data collector with the job of (more…)

During our initial exploratory season on the Savan, we hiked up its main tributary, the Ichanga, and discovered some of the best fishing and biggest rainbows of the season. The Ichanga is the main tributary of the Savan River and the perfect sized river for fishing with a six or seven weight fly rod.  The (more…)

There are many wonderful reasons to choose Trouters Patagonia as your outfitter in the region. The owner/operator and head guide – Nico Gonzalez – has spent his entire life in the area, growing up in a wonderland of fishing opportunities which, until about 30 years ago was nearly devoid of anglers. Generations of trout previously (more…)

One of Patagonia’s most diverse fly fishing programs for wild trout is Patagonian BaseCamp, on the banks of the remote Rio Palena, owned and operated by Marcel Sijnesael. Marcel traveled the world for several years before settling in this hidden corner of Patagonia, choosing to build his dream lodge in an area as wild as (more…)

La Posada de los Farios [“The Inn of the Brown Trout”] is a comfortable and intimate lodge, accommodating a maximum of six (6) guests in a part of the world that time seems to have forgotten. It is rare to see another angler, and the few fishermen that have wet a line on the Cisnes (more…)

A new chapter in the storied El Saltamontes legacy After 34 years of operating one of the all-time classic fly fishing lodges in Chile, Patagonian, Jose Gorroño and family are turning over the reins to Dane and Chiara Emerson, owners of Espiritu Santo Bay (ESB) Lodge, the single most sought after flats fishing lodge in (more…)

The McLean family’s Tsylos Park Lodge (pronounced Silos) is a trout fishermen’s paradise, located about 200 air miles over the coastal mountains from Vancouver, British Columbia. Your Adventure Begins when you board ta twin engine aircraft in Vancouver, BC for a one and half hour flight to Chilko Lake, a 50 mile long turquoise blue (more…)

The Steelhead Valhalla Lodge is nestled in the trees along the banks of the Sustut River five miles upstream from the Sustut’s confluence with the Skeena River. The Skeena River System has been labeled the largest producing river for trophy steelhead in the world! The Sustut River… Crown Jewel of the Skeena Watershed. Because it (more…)

Suskeena Lodge, on the Sustut River in Northern British Columbia is relatively unknown except among a core group of fanatics that fish BC every year prowling for giant steelhead. The Sustut has the largest average steelhead of any river in the Skeena watershed. If you want to crack the magic 30 pound mark for steelhead (more…)

The Gilson family have the exclusive outfitting rights to the incomparable Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park, a 3,600 square mile chunk of raw land that is loaded with more rainbow trout streams and lakes than could possibly be fished in a lifetime. Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park was established in 1975 and the name Spatsizi (more…)