Chris Jolly Outdoors has been leading tours and outdoors activities of various types around the Taupō region for more than 40 years. They’re deeply rooted in the community and the landscape. Most importantly, they know the area rivers and trout migrations within them as well as anyone. Their local streams vary widely from grassy, narrow
Fishing Style: Spey
Kulik Lodge, Katmai National Park
Why We Like It Kulik Lodge is one of the best operations in the Katmai region. The Kulik River, right out the back door, ranks as one of the region’s top rainbow trout streams with each cast possibly leading to a 20- to 30-inch rainbow in the net. Guests here get first shot at it
Rapids Camp
Why We Like It This is fly-out fishing at its finest. Rapids Camp is located at the epicenter of the famous Bristol Bay leopard rainbow trout fishery right on the banks of the Naknek River. Lodge guests can simply walk from breakfast to a private dock where multiple boats and a fleet of planes are
The Steelhead Ranch
Why We Like It There aren’t many summer-run steelhead options left in the Pacific Northwest, and there aren’t any rivers like the Klickitat. Pure and simple, the Steelhead Ranch is a summer steelheading paradise. Situated on 40 acres above the Klickitat River, guests fish for some of the hardest fighting summer-runs found anywhere in the
Thanks Alaska Mothership
Why We Like It Thanks Alaska offers some of the most unique steelhead fishing on the planet. Opportunities are plentiful for bright, spring-run wild fish ranging between 8 and 14 pounds and some that grow much larger (their record measured 42 inches long). The 17-million-acre Tongass National Forest offers hundreds of these wildly remote steelhead-bearing streams,
3Camps en Gaspésie
Why We Like It Pure and simple, this is one of the classic fly fishing experiences found anywhere in the world. Atlantic salmon are among of the most desirable species in fly fishing, and Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula offers opportunity in spades. Guests at 3Camps en Gaspésie may fish private beats on three remarkable rivers including
Boardwalk Lodge
Why We Like It The Tongass National Forest offers one of fishing’s pinnacle experiences: sightcasting flies to native steelhead. Beginning in March and extending through May, these stunning anadromous trout run up countless rivers and streams draining through the old-growth forests of Prince of Wales Island. Guests at Boardwalk Lodge can walk up and down