CONTENTS
20 Photo Essay
Despite the fact that Alaska
is best known for salmon, it is
home to excellent steelhead
fishing where logistics is your
biggest challenge. But this crew
found its way to the faraway
Aleutian Islands where steelhead
minutes away from the Bering
Sea are so fresh they have sea
lice with tails as long as spaghet-
ti tags. And they’re not shy about
slamming a swung fly.
24 BC’s Salmon Highway
Salmon fishing is a lot like real
estate: location, location, loca-
tion. Writers Jason Brooks and
Terry Sheely have pin-pointed
the best that BC has to offer
this coming year, and there’s no
shortage of locations that deliver
on a regular basis.
38 Remote Chrome
Swinging up kings is the pin-
nacle of salmon fishing, and
there are few rivers better-suited
to the pursuit than Alaska’s Sap-
suk River. As Glenn Chen points
out, these fish are hell-bent on
making a lasting impression
which they do.
46 Kiwi Browns
What would drive Jason Atkin-
son to travel to New Zealand
to fish for brown trout? Simple
really. Knowing that you gave it
your best and caught some of
the world’s most educated fish.
But it goes beyond that. Staying
at a lodge that is more like home,
fishing with people who are
more like family, and fishing in
country that is unlike anything
you’ll find in North America.
54 Saltwater’s Apex Predator
Giant Trevally are plain nasty.
And unforgiving. And relent-
less. And downright difficult
to catch. But when you do find
yourself on the receiving end of
a GT, as Brian Gies points out, it’s
the most fun you’ll have with a
12-weight.
60 Lodge Listings
ON THE COVER
Pat Hoglund with a wild steelhead
from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
GRAY STRUZNICK PHOTO
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