Where would you go?
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If you had: Unlimited budget and no time constraints, where would your ULTIMATE FLY FISHING destination take you?
Across central Asia fishing for the taimen species; starting with outer Mongolia and travelling over the Silk Road to eastern Europe via the Caucasus and then up the Danube to fish for huchen.
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By six-wheeled Land Cruiser FJ-40 (custom), overland starting at the Bering Strait and all the way down to the Straits of Magellan on the southern tip of South America.
If I won the lottery I’d stop practicing law and embark on one of those journeys, then sell articles from them to National Geographic and/or Outside magazine, and follow it up with the mother of all coffee table expeditions books.
Easy, no doubt I would go to Kodiak Island. I would start with King Salmon in June and finish up with Steelhead in November. You did say no time/budget constraints…
Sounds good!
So when can we expect the coffee table book?Mine is:
where ever I can enjoy the company of good friends and catch some fish!Jay
When I moved to southwest Montana last year I got to my ultimate fly fishing destination. Now if I could only arrange for an unlimited budget… 🙂
Scott
I think we all have the same daydreams! I have 3 trips on my list of “must fish” destinations … Someday.
1. New Zealand
2. Alaska and BC – this one will prob happen next year
3. ChileA taimen trip also sounds exciting.
Dillon, Montana.
I go up to Dillon 4 or 5 times a year .. If I wasn’t so close (utah), it would be on my short list also. Great fishing, friendly fishermen and fly shops. Hooking into one of those pigs on the beverhead is good fun and the scenery Big Hole in the fall is unreal!
I’m with Sculpin! I have lived in Western Montana my whole life and see no reason to go any where else to fish! I would love to take a couple of months and fish the Big Horn, The Still Water, the Madison, the Ruby, the Gallatin (all forks), the Big Hole, the Beaverhead, the Yellowstone, the Missouri, the Smith, the North Fork of the Blackfoot, the Blackfoot, the North, South, and Middle Fork of the Flathead, the East, West and Main Fork of the Bitterroot….I think you get my point!
If I had to travel a long ways to fish Chile and Patagonia are certainly on my short list! Fish a ton and bag a few peaks while am down there sounds like way too much fun to me!
Moosedog
An extended tramp through Argentina and Chile. In fact, I have an opportunity to go to Buenos Aires for six weeks in summer ’07 to study Spanish. Don’t think there will be any good fishing since BA is far North of the publicized fishing spots, and I will be there in the dead of their winter. At the very least I hope to make some good contacts to return in prime fishing season when budget allows. All part of the master plan . . .
Along with the link to Dan Cook’s adventure, another guide to where I’d go with unlimited time/money would be the book “Fifty Places to Flyfish Before I Die”.
Not a bad title, huh? 😉
Further, I would travel/flyfish til I was physically unable or D – E- D and I would fly back and forth to my present home/friends from wherever I’m at in the world.
Dan and Zach have it about right, traveling in the northern and southern latitudes (longitudes?) that hold the best fishing for trout and then the islands in the middle of the globe for saltwater goodies.
I would also, only since money is no object in this exercise, have guides/boats/sherpas/ladies of the…, er, nurses, in case I get sick, flies tied by local professional tiers, ***** lodges, helicopters at the ready, fully loaded Land Cruisers attached to Class A Motor homes with a party room included for showing “home movies” only, of course, with a wine cellar full of local wines, then have the whole thing shipped around the world.
Oh, and a fishing equipped boat/yacht at my beck and call, complete with above acoutrements as in the motor home/Land Cruiser, of course.
Did I miss anything? ;D
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