Travel Fishing - Main

The Best In Travel Team Up!

The Reel Life has been selected by The Fly Shop of Redding, CA, long recognized as the leader in fly fishing travel, to team up to bring you the ultimate in fly fishing travel. The Fly Shop's Signature Destinations represent the best fly fishing lodges in the world and are exclusive only to customers of The Fly Shop, The Reel Life and a few other top-tier shops around the country.

Please call The Reel Life at 505-995-8114 to discuss hosted trips, Signature Destinations or any of your fly fishing travel needs. We have the expertise you need to travel with confidence!

Experience Alaska's Finest!

The Alaska trip is full for 2010. Please contact us about other dates in 2010 and to get your name of the list for next year's hosted trip.

Join Reel Life host Toner Mitchell for this incredible real fishing experience. The dates are July 15th - July 22nd, $3,995 per person, limit 6.

Tent camps are magnificent wilderness experiences. Dave Egdorf's tent camp on the Nushagak offers luxury, by any camping definition, in the heart of the state's most exciting fishing wilderness.

It is an opportunity to surround yourself with wall-to-wall wildlife in the midst of some of the 49th state's finest fly fishing. Far from the nearest lodge, airport, or other anglers, this is a rare, and quickly disappearing Alaska experience; often shared only with millions of fish. Adventurers looking to blaze new angling trails need only apply.

The "Nush" is a fish bum's dream come true. Rise as early or late as you please 'cause there's no competition to race to the pool. Fish hard all day on 100 miles of accessible river, come back to camp and recharge with a hearty meal and a few fish stories. Then head to the home pools for as many casts as you can throw under the midnight sun.

That's how fishing in Alaska used to be, and how it still is on the "Nush". The sense of remote isolation is hard to match anywhere else in North America. Your only companions for the week are the folks that came with you, the moose and bears, and a million trout. The fishing is great and the overall experience is so much more than that!

Dave's camp is, in a way, a throwback to the 1940's, when folks heading to Alaska for adventure fishing looked for nothing more than a dry tent and fishing that was right outside the door. The outfitters who accommodated them adopted a style of simple, comfortable, on-river camps that were easy to set up and maintain in super remote regions, and offered immediate boat or foot access to the river.

Lodge fishing in Alaska has moved away from this rustic "camp" style, as fly out lodges, with their amenities and indulgences have set a new standard of sorts. But its good to know guys like Dave are still out there, in the middle of nowhere, offering hardcore fishing, complete solitude...and plenty of creature comforts.

Each week a load of choice meats, fresh veggies, and pounds of basics like flour, sugar, coffee and bacon arrive into camp by float plane. The cooks use their scratch ingredients and spice racks to produce the best homestyle meals in the Alaskan bush. Think cowboy-cook meets cafe gourmet.

"Weatherport" tent-cabins are a staple in remote wilderness living. With wooden floors, comfortable beds and weather-tight walls and roofs, they're incredibly simple and provide everything a die-hard fisherman needs to stay warm and dry.

Other amenities in camp include sauna, generator pwered electricity, hot showers, outhouse bathroom facilities, and wood-burning stoves for drying gear and warming hands on crisp days.

"What I like about Egdorf's is that you'd be hard-pressed to find more rainbows in a river anywhere, ever. Combine that with 100 miles of jet boatable river, possibly the best camp pools in Alaska, and the endlessly fishable midnight sun of a Nushagak summer, and very good things happen!" - Mike Mercer, Alaska fly fishing expert

Curious about your host? Click here for a video from National Geographic.


Join Us At Paradise Lodge!

Join Toner Mitchell of The Reel Life for a Mexican fly fishing trip you will never forget. The dates are October 2nd - October 9th, $1,895 per person, limit 7.

Paradise Lodge is aptly named. What was at first hailed as the lodge most consistently productive for tarpon and snook now includes outstanding bonefishing in the most scenic and remote flats of the Mexican Yucatan. Add to this excellent possibilities of hooking up with the most elusive of flats fish; the permit.

The new, completely rebuilt Paradise Lodge is re-opening its doors after its complete destruction by Hurricane Dean in August 2007. It offers wilderness saltwater fishing from complete comfort in luxury accomodations on the Carribean Coast near Belize. It looks out over the sea and its part of the second longest barrier reef in the world. It is small catering to only 6 anglers at one time, with 4 rooms to provide space for non anglers as well as anglers. The whole idea behind the rebuild was to make individual attention the first priority of the lodge and staff. The meals are served taking advantage of the chef's expertise in preparing Mexican and international cuisine. All of the drinks are on the house and the bar is always open.

It is located where it is on purpose. It was originally built by Dial Duncan about 20 years ago and he chose its foundation to be laid smack dab in the middle of the many tarpon and snook lakes just inland from the sea and connected to the ocean by cenotes (pronounced say-no'-tase) and the two bays, Chetumal (to the south of the lodge) and Espiritu Santo (to the north). He and subsequent owners, along with lodge guides have been exploring those waters ever since.

It is probably the best destination in the Yucatan to seek the hard won Yucatan Slam. This is landing a bonefish, tarpon, permit and snook in one day. Easy to say but extremely difficult to achieve.

If you add the ocean waters in the front of the lodge (accessible on calm days) to the two bays and the nearly dozen lakes, there are 4 distinctly different waters in which to fish for 4 different species. In addition to the fishes mentioned above, there are jack crevalle, barracuda, snapper and others to talk into eating your fly offering.

The guides are all experienced and were with the lodge before the hurricane. They know the waters well and know how to position a fly fisher to get the best shots at whatever fish he/she has targeted. The boats are all in tip-top condition and are adapted to the local water and fishing conditions. The vehicles are all well maintained, air conditioned and provide the most comfortable ride possible to fishing each day.

The non-angler is not forgotten at Paradise Lodge. There are a lot of activities to keep them busy and entertained. Just a short walk up the beach, the Meso-American Reef rises to within a few feet of the surface and a short swim from the beach. Snorkeling there is world class. Kayaks are available to play in the ocean and of course, the beach can provide hours of pleasure swimming and hiking. There are Mayan ruins to explore and birds to observe in the jungle country along the road behind the odge. The staff at the lodge will bend over backwards to assure the non-angler has just as good a time as the fishers.

Curious about your host? Click here for a recent video from National Geographic.