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Karin and I are pleased to offer this great choice of travel trips for the upcoming seasons to some of the best locations in the world. We have researched all the camps and locations. Chris or one of our guides will almost always be on the trip as your host. What a "HOSTED" trip means is we will take care of almost all the arrangements as well as work with the lodge owners to set up trips to meet your individual needs. Allow our experience to lead you to any number of "trips of a life time"!

Alaska  First week in Aug.  I have been fishing the Kanektok River in Alaska since 1998 and I am happy to say that we have found the perfect camp to host our group in August. I have reserved the whole camp for the very best week- the start of the silver runs! We will be on the river the first of August; this is the week that I have fished the river in the past!  This is a small camp, limited to12 anglers. We will fish the best section of this river aided by 50hp jet drive flat bottom boats. Drift fishing and hitting the banks with mouse patterns or streamers and wade fishing with flesh flies and egg patterns. This camp is right on the river so there are no worries about weather keeping us off the best water when planes can't fly. Please see me or call  for more information about this trip and any of the other trips! Total trip cost is $4200 this includes 7 nights on the river and 6-6.5 days guided fishing, all meals. Price does not include bush flight from Bethel, Alaska or flights to AK, but I can get us great deals on flights to Alaska and Bethel. I will be on this trip and trying to fish with everyone that goes for at least one day! Don't miss out on this great opportunity to hit Alaska without any worries! We know this camp and its owners well. It will be the trip of a LIFETIME. You can expect to have a shot at all 5 Pacific salmon species, (kings, chum, sockeye, pink, and silvers). You will also catch Dolly Varden till your arm falls off; you're also going to have many chances to catch trophy leopard rainbows and grayling.

Here is a link to the 2004 fishing report from this trip of a lifetime.

Mongolia dates are still open!  Fish up to 62" have been taken on dry flies in the past and 30-50" is not uncommon. Our guests that fished this river in Sept 2002 raved about the fishing and the total experience! Largest fish taken by them was a 55" Taiman WOW, average was about 1 fish per hour. This is not a trip for everyone, but one you will never forget! Trip cost is $5200.00 plus air to Mongolia. Trip includes everything once in Mongolia, 7 nights 6 days fishing all meals and all hotel stays in Mongolia, one on each end of the fishing trip as well as the M-I-8 chopper flight to camp. Chris will try and be your host for this trip of a lifetime, I have not been to Mongolia yet but placed it on the top of my must do list the first time I saw a photo of this great fish. There are also grayling and Lenox (Mongolia's trout) they are both suckers for dry flies as well as mouse patterns. The Taiman is fished almost 100% of the time in spring with DRY FLIES (Chernobyl squirrels)!! Click here for more details on the trip and the area.

Bighorn River (Cast and Blast) Trip dates are still open I am hoping for mid Oct-mid Nov. There will be the chance for both great brown trout fishing as well as upland birds. I am working on setting a date for a trip to the Horn for birds and trout! I worked at this Lodge for 3 years and for the people that own it for almost 5 years. This is a FIRST CLASS trip with the Bighorn River 3 min. from the front door and 78,000 acres of the best PRIVATE hunting land you have ever seen just 45 min. away. The lodge offers outstanding accommodations and cuisine. The fishing on the Bighorn is almost as good as the Juan (well I have to say the Juan is better). Browns will be on the spawn, so streamers and nymph fishing will be unreal. Birds - well let's just say I still dream about this hunting even when I am in Kansas hunting! 50+ birds a day is common to see on the wing. You will have a chance to shoot many holes in the sky, and if you are shooting good, many birds as well. Cost $2,700 for 2 days fishing and 2 days hunting or $3,200 for 1 day fishing and 3 days hunting. If you just want to fish the price is $1,800 for 4 days fishing. This is the total cost from Billings, MT. We will set this trip up for 4 days guided and 5 nights and you can pick any combination of fishing and hunting you would like. I will be picking the guides for both hunting and fishing so I am sure you'll have a great time! Trust my experience on this river, and of the area to show you the time of your life!

Amazon We are looking at Feb-March for the best fly fishing. This is a trip for the bass and trout fisherman alike. We have found this lodge on the upper reaches of the Amazon tributaries with clear water and lots of sight fishing. This is a fixed lodge you'll access the best areas every day with bass boats. Top-water action and streamers are the order of the day. You can also fish casting and spinning gear on this trip if your arm gets tired. Price is $3800 per person and includes 7 nights 6 days fishing and all meals. The rare thing about this lodge in the amount of sight fishing and wade fishing that can be done, it's on a tributary to the Amazon so the water is much clearer and there are many sand flats to wade.The lodge is in a black water area so no bugs. This is also not a houseboat trip like many of the others, so you have much more private time and with only 6 people at the lodge per week, great individual attention!

Russia Salmon and trout prime dates are still open  we are also looking at September. We are still in the works with this trip but are hoping for 2004! I hope to have one of our guides host this trip, there are both float and lodge style trip. We are hoping to swing a float on one of the newer rivers being fished in Russia. Reports from clients that went in 2002 were outstanding 20-40 fish days small bows ran 20" and largest fish taken was a 34.5 inch monster on a mouse pattern! Please see Chris if you have ANY interest in this trip!

Russia Atlantic salmon fishing: This trip is still in the works but with our new connections in the UK the best underfished rivers Russia as to offer are at our finger tips.  Please call me if you have any interest in this trip as I have more information that I can fax, will add it to the sight soon as I can.

Chili  Wilderness float trips with a lodge base.  US owned and US guides make this a trip you will never forget.  A friend of mine owns this lodge and the total experience is unlike any other in chili.  no schedule allows you to plan each day with your guide.  I will be hosting this trip in our winter months!

Saltwater Trips  We are working on the final plans for our saltwater trips.  Mexico, Belize, and the Bahamas are all in the works as well as killer Texas red fish trips all summer long.  Please keep checking back as I hope to add the changes soon!  We will always have one of our guide staff on the saltwater trips to be sure that every thing goes smoothly!

 Please call us about any of your travel needs or wants, we have extensive connections world wide and are more then willing to point you in the right direction!  Let our world wide experience be your guide to a quality experience.  We do not charge any fee's.

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