Category Archives: Destination Travel

While many of us learned to fly fish on a small stream while walking and wading, floating down a beautiful river and casting to the best spots while a guide rows the boat is one of the great joys of a fly fishing trip. Some of the best fly fishing in the world is also best fished from boats, either...

Even with all of the great winter fly fishing near Bozeman and Big Sky and the potential for epic powder days, winter in Montana can feel long, dark, and cold. Fishing opportunities never feel as good as they should--who really wants to go fishing when the snow is falling, and it's dark before it's...

“This is gonna be epic, like boy band epic!” This is how one lucky Montana Angler guest described his recent trip to Aqua Boa Amazon Lodge . A quote from one of Montana Angler’s guests from our most recent trip to Agua Boa Amazon Lodge, Ted Putnam. I couldn’t agree more with that sentiment. I’ve...

New Zealand’s South Island is the final frontier for fly anglers, the proving ground to test your skills against the most impressive trout on the planet. Unrolling that perfect cast and watching a big brown come up to sip your dry fly, it just doesn’t get much better than that. Located a world away...

Magic Waters Patagonia Lodge is located near the city of Coyhaique in the Aysen Region of Chile. After five trips to the area over the last few seasons, I’ve come to think of the trout water in this part of the world much like my home waters near Bozeman, Montana. A diversity of spring creeks...

Is there another progressive fishing and camping river trip on the planet that can upstage a Mongolian fly fishing adventure? I don’t think so. Where else in the world can you listen to Asian elk bugling and wolves howling at night and then switch gears to chase both the world’s largest trout and...

Alaska stands alone as a fly-fishing destination, a singular pinnacle in a world full of fish. The diversity of species from rainbow trout to Dolly Varden, Arctic char to grayling — not to mention salmon species — offer the angler myriad fly-fishing opportunities. Alaska’s enormity is dwarfed only...

With all the talk of polar vortexes, La Nina, El Nino, and the Farmer's Almanac, it is hard to know year-in and year-out exactly how harsh the winter season will be. Even with all the variables--and variety of sources--one thing is for sure: from December through March there will always be a place...

Known as one of the most voracious predatory gamefish on the planet, fly fishing for peacock bass in the Amazon River system is a fly fishing trip everyone should consider. If there were a fish to match the grandeur and vastness of the Amazon, the peacock bass is ideal. With aggressive takes...

Fly fishing travel can take you to some amazing places. One of those spectacular places in the world to go fly fishing is the Patagonia region of Chile. With several world-class lodges, hundreds of miles of rivers and shorelines to fish, and an abundance of excellent fly fishing guides, this region...