Southflyfisher

12/12/2025

Welcome to The Weekly Five, Issue 44, where we celebrate Puerto Rico’s tarpon & permit fishery, and more ...

Puerto Rico's Tarpon Treasure

28/11/2025

27/11/2025

For saltwater fly anglers seeking the outer edges of adventure, the Republic of Kiribati delivers one of the Pacific’s most remote and productive fisheries: Fanning Island (Tabuaeran). This coral atoll, just over an hour from famed Christmas Island, is fast building a reputation as one of the world’s finest Bonefish and Giant Trevally fisheries.

The Ultimate Bonefish Location?

25/11/2025

Attention anglers in New Zealand, Chile, and Argentina.
Protect rivers this season by preventing the spread of didymo. Check out this guide & simple biosecurity checklist to keep your gear, and our waterways, clean.

Essential biosecurity for Patagonia anglers

06/11/2025

In Issue 41 of The Weekly Five, we discuss New Zealand's La Fontaine Stream, the Rainbow Warrior (fly), past Friends of Colorado's Lower Blue, and more. Read it here:
https://www.explorationangling.com/p/the-weekly-five-41

24/10/2025

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The Sea Run Issue

20/10/2025

As snow starts to fall in the U.S., the fishing’s just getting started in New Zealand!

Ph: Eugene Pawlowski

20/10/2025

For decades, the world has fished the Argentine side of the Rio Grande. Now, a new Chilean estancia offers access to the same legendary sea trout — but with lighter rods, quieter water, and a wilderness few have ever seen.

A return to untouched water

15/10/2025

Every few years in New Zealand, something extraordinary happens deep in the beech forests of the South Island. A chain reaction begins with a simple event.

For anglers, it culminates in one of the most astonishing spectacles in freshwater fishing: the rise of the mouse-fed trout.

Discover how New Zealand’s rare beech mast 'mouse years' create giant brown trout, the ecological forces behind them, and when to best fly fish the South Island.

15/10/2025

Typical spring lake level rise at Nelson’s Lake Rotoroa, South Island, New Zealand 🇳🇿

14/10/2025

Over on Exploration Angling, we forecast a 2026 Beech Mast frenzy in New Zealand's South Island. Read about it below:

Cue frenetic bookings to New Zealand