Presently there are 33,100 documented fish species found in the world’s fresh and saltwater. Amazingly, scientist find about 250 new species every year. According to the International Game Fish Association there are 170 species of game fish that have earned world record status, but when it comes to sportfish dedicated fly anglers pursue with with rod and reel that number drops to about 100 species. Whether you are a steelhead fanatic, traditional  trout fisherman, saltwater fly fisher or jungle angler, The Fly Shop® has a fully vetted and great fly fishing destination that targets the species you want to catch.

Amur Pike

The Amur pike (Esox reichertii), also known as the blackspotted pike, is a pike native to the Amur River system in east Asia, as well as freshwater habitat on the island of Sakhalin. Closely related to the northern pike, it reaches a length of 115 cm (3 ft 9 in), a weight of...
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Amur Trout

Amur trout (Brachymystax savinovi) are an impressive trout species that are unique to the Amur system in Mongolia. Amur trout are beautiful with coppery flanks, big black spots and heavy shoulders. They hit the fly with commitment and fight hard. Amur trout have been caught...
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Arapaima

Arapaima are the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world, reaching lengths of up to 9 feet long and weighting up to 440 pounds. They are an air-breathing fish, resembling tarpon in both size and shape, though with more coloration and...
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Arctic Char

The Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes and arctic and subarctic coastal waters. Its distribution is Circumpolar North. It spawns in freshwater and populations can be lacustrine, riverine, or anadromous,...
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Arowana

Arowana are carnivorous, often being specialized surface feeders. They are excellent jumpers; Osteoglossum species have been seen leaping more than 6 feet (almost 2 meters) from the water surface to pick off insects and birds from overhanging branches in...
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Atlantic Salmon

The thrill we get from a screaming reel and a jumping fish is primal, and an anthropologist could probably trace it all back to one fish, the Atlantic salmon. The species is both the foundation and nexus of the modern sport of fly fishing.
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Barracuda

A barracuda, or ‘cuda for short, is a large, predatory, ray-finned fish known for its fearsome appearance and ferocious behavior. The barracuda is a saltwater fish of the genus Sphyraena, the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae, which was named by...
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Billfish & Sailfish

Guatemala has been recognized as the new sailfish capitol of the world, and there's no better place to satiate your appetite for airborne billfish. It's safe, easy-to-get-to, very pro-American, and the numbers of fish caught there, every day of the season...
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Black Drum

The black drum is usually found in or near brackish waters. Larger, older fish are more commonly found in the saltier areas of an estuary (closer to the ocean) near oyster beds or other plentiful food sources. Juvenile fish have four to five bold vertical...
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Bonefish

These saltwater rockets are the most popular fly fishing target in the Caribbean, South Pacific, and Indian Ocean for lots of reasons. The Fly Shop® has been searching the planet for the top bonefish lodges since 1978 and can introduce you...
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Brown Trout

There are a few great spots on the trout fishing horizon that focus exclusively on brown trout. The best are in Chile, and there is no outfit that's better or more experienced in the world to point you in that direction than the guys here at The Fly Shop®.
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Bull Trout

Bull trout have exacting habitat demands, requiring water temperatures generally below 55 °F (13 °C), clean gravel beds, deep pools, complex cover such as snags and cut banks, and large systems of interconnected waterways to accommodate spawning migrations.
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Bumphead Parrotfish

The green humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) is the largest species of parrotfish, growing to lengths of 1.5 m (4.9 ft) and weighing up to 75 kg (165 lb). It is found on reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea in the west to Samoa....
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Chinook (King) Salmon

The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus Oncorhynchus. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other vernacular names for the species include...
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Coho (Silver) Salmon

The coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch; Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family and one of the five Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon or “silvers”. The scientific species name is based on the Russian common name kizhuch (кижуч).
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Cutthroat Trout

Cutthroat trout usually inhabit and spawn in small to moderately large, clear, well-oxygenated, shallow rivers with gravel bottoms. They reproduce in clear, cold, moderately deep lakes. They are native to the alluvial or freestone streams that are typical tributaries of the rivers...
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Dolly Varden

The Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma) is a species of salmonid fish native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. It belongs to the genus Salvelinus, or true chars, which includes 51 recognized species, the most prominent....
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Golden Dorado

South America's exotic, freshwater version of a gold-colored King Salmon has bad orthodonture and a an even more hostile attitude! These ferocious fish will rip the rod out of your hands on the strike, threaten to toss your fly with every leap, and test...
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Grayling

The grayling occurs primarily in cold waters of mid-sized to large rivers and lakes, returning to rocky streams to breed. The various subspecies are omnivorous. Crustaceans, insects and insect larvae, and fish eggs form the most important...
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Kundzha

The Kundzha is a species of fish in the Char family, the same family as Dolly Varden, Brook trout and Bull trout. They are endemic only to the Far East, not existing on the US side of the Pacific. Also known as Siberian White Spotted Char, they...
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Lake Trout

The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens. Lake trout are the largest of the chars; the record weighed almost 102 pounds (46 kg) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (130 cm),...
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Lenok Trout

Lenoks, otherwise known as Asiatic trout or Manchurian trout, are salmonid fish of the genus Brachymystax, native to rivers and lakes in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, wider Siberia (including Russian Far East), Northern China and Korea. Lenoks can be sharp-snouted (B. lenok) or...
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Milkfish

Milkfish generally feed on algae and small invertebrates. They tend to school around coasts and islands with coral reefs. The young fry live at sea for two to three weeks and then migrate during the juvenile stage to mangrove swamps, estuaries, and...
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Musky

The Epic Narrows Musky Camp, located on Lake of Woods Ontario, Canada, is the only operation we know of that is dedicated to fishing muskies exclusively with a fly rod. Lake of the Woods is massive, covering an area of over 1,700 square miles and with over 14,500 islands...
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Mutton Snapper

The mutton snapper is a predatory species which changes its diet during its life cycle. The larvae feed on plankton near the surface of the sea, when they settle to live in the turtle grass beds they eat larger items of plankton and small invertebrates.
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Napoleon Wrasse

The humphead wrasses can be found on the east coast of Africa around the mouth of the Red Sea, and in some areas of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Juveniles are usually found in shallow, sandy ranges bordering coral reef waters, while adults are found...
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Northern Pike

Pike are found in sluggish streams and shallow, weedy places in lakes and reservoirs, as well as in cold, clear, rocky waters. They are typical ambush predators; they lie in wait for prey, holding perfectly still for long periods, and then exhibit remarkable...
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Other Salmon

There's no better place to get your fill of hooking, fighting, and landing salmon than in Alaska. Few will argue that the best of the 49th state's lodges and camps can be found on the list that The Fly Shop® represents. Let us hook you up with...
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Payara

The payara, also known in the fly fishing community as vampire fish, Hydrolycus scomberoides, is a species of dogtooth tetra. This predatory fish is found in the Amazon Basin in tropical South America. It was the first of four species to be described in...
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Peacock Bass

Brazil's Amazon jungle rivers are the top spots on the map for sensationally colored, mean-spririted cichlids. These are aggressive fish that would rather tear a popper or streamer to shreds than let it pass unmolested, and we know just where to...
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Permit

Permit are the perfect target for anglers obsessed with making the perfect cast, perfect presentation, perfect hook set - implementing perfect skills in bringing the fish to hand. Add to this a little (sometimes a lot) of luck and you have the perfect...
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Rainbow Trout

From Kamchatka to Alaska to Argentina this is the single most popular fish fly rodders prefer to chase. If you're searching for that next great rainbow trout trip, give The Fly Shop's Travel experts a call and have us walk you through your best options.
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Redfish

The red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), also known as redfish, channel bass, puppy drum, spottail bass, or simply red, is a game fish found in the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to northern Mexico...
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Sea Run Brown Trout

The Fly Shop® is the exclusive representative for two of the top three trophy brown trout lodges in the world, and we're an agent for the third. Fish average nearly ten pounds, and the odds of landing one twice that size are excellent.
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Snook

This aggressive, striped, saltwater sleuth is the most difficult element of the Caribbean Super Grand Slam and there are few places better to beat the odds than our Yucatan destinations in the late spring, early summer, and fall.
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Steelhead

We cut our teeth and built our hard-core reputation chasing these critters. We've got access to the very limited short list of space, and if you'll give us a call, we'll custom-tailor a Steelhead trip that'll put you into the best available lodge...
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Taimen

Taimen are perhaps the world's most incredible fly fishing experience. Every taimen you encounter - whether you miss it or land it - is sure to create a lasting memory. Taimen are a pre-historic mega-fish, and the largest member of the...
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Tarpon

Tarpon are large fish of the genus Megalops. There are two species of Megalops, one native to the Atlantic, and the other to the Indo-Pacific oceans. They are the only members of the family Megalopidae.
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Tigerfish

The African tigerfish is the first freshwater fish recorded and confirmed to attack and catch birds in flight. Much like bass and other predatory species, they tend to wait for their prey in areas with structure and ambush points.
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Trevally

The giant trevally is distributed throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, with a range stretching from South Africa in the west to Hawaii in the east, including Japan in the north and Australia in the south.
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Triggerfish

Triggerfishes are about 40 species of often brightly colored fishes of the family Balistidae. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific.
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Wolf Fish

Wolf fish can be found across most of northern South America, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname and the island of Trinidad. Often found in counter current zones of principal rivers and creeks. It is mainly an ambush predator...
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