Categories: Travel Blog

  Hello and welcome to Alaska, The Alaska Peninsula extends approximately 800 miles southwest from the mainland to the Aleutian Islands and is home to an incredible number of diverse North American wildlife populations. Guests visiting Lava Creek Lodge can expect sightings of brown bear, barren ground caribou, Arctic wolves, red fox, bald eagles and (more…)

Introducing the NEW El Escondido Exploratory Trips Program with Patagonian BaseCamp for 2022 By Pat Pendergast & Mike Mercer Over the past 10 years, Marcel Sijnesael, owner of Patagonian BaseCamp (PBC), has been acquiring a vast amount of land in the hidden valley of Río Escondido. The Escondido River flows freely from a lake that (more…)

Tarpon Caye Lodge, Belize by Pat Pendergast A couple years ago, Brian O’Keefe and I had the opportunity to visit and fish with the folks at Tarpon Caye Lodge located close to the Barrier Reef in Southern Belize. Brian and I had spent the prior week at Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge and we were looking forward (more…)

Top 5 Tarpon Destinations Tarpon Cay Lodge, Mexico: Tarpon Cay Lodge is based out San Felipe Mexico, a small fishing village on the North West point of the Yucatan Peninsula. Although  less 3 hours by car from Cancun, it feels like you are in the middle of old Mexico far away from the mega tourist (more…)

Top 5 Snook Destinations Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge: Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge (ESB), is a wilderness flats fishing destination specifically designed for serious saltwater fly fishers. ESB sits on a beautiful 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 (more…)

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…)