If you were to take the trip of your dreams to chase fish with flies, where would you go and what would you be fishing for?
To Alaska to fish the “NUSH” for “leopard” rainbows…
until then I’ll have to settle for fighting gills here in the south…
I am lucky enough to live in NZ so I would be hard put to find a better place to be! If pushed I suppose the Sea run Trout in Patagonia sound good, or chasing Steelhead in the PNW or Alaska and of course the Atlantic salmon of Scotland would be good.
For sea fishing, well I am planning on going to Aitutaki later in the year to fish for bonefish and bluefin trevally. See, I live in paradise and I can still dream of other places.
All the best.
Mike
I already did it. Went to north Queensland Australia to fish the Gulf of Carpentaria for three weeks. Caught 25 species of fish. Tunas, trevallies, barramundi, mackerels, reef critters, sharks, queenfish, permit, catfish, salmon, etc. Want to do it again.
Maybe I just do not dream big enough because I would really enjoy a trip to a river here and just fly fish for smallmouth bass. It does not have to be fancy or expensive to please me, just a lot of fun and a beautiful river full of smallmouth bass.
I do not apologize for not dreaming big. I just love to fly fish and nothing more…and I do enjoy my trout fishing, but, smallmouth…
Face it, if you make your big expensive dream trip one time, would it not be over when you returned? What would be left to dream about?
Sorry, I just want to continue to fish and let the dream go on hanging out there…
somewhere up north where i could get into some big brook trout. dont really have one spot in mind, but one of these days.
Warren! I’m with you, all the way…
Already have done it. My two best friends accompanied me to Colorado for a dirt bike riding adventure(that I tried for years to get them to do). We carried pack fly rods with us and stopped along the trails at every ‘fishy-looking’ spot. What great fun that was! The brook trout were more than willing. One of them called me the other day and asked me to do it again.
Warren, come on down. I can put you on some smallmouth.
I would take two years and fish a lake, or still water and a river or small stream in every state. Plus float tube the San Diago bay. As for type of fish, any and all.
Jurrasic lake.
I would go back 130 years and fish the west before we ruined it with rainbow trout.
I have always dreamed of FF for large Tarpon. As for where, I don’t care. Or maybe Peacock Bass in South America. I am from up North and have fished great Small Mouth waters,Large Mouth, Blue Gills, Crappie and Browns. I also live near the James River in Virgina which is famous for it’s Small Mouth.
Patagonia…
" Reserve me a spot on the Aaro and if you don’t mind I’d like first crack at “The Platform of Despair”. And since I don’t have the proper equipment, set me up with a 15 foot cane rod of your choosing, a six inch Hardy winch,and please have tied up for me to local specifications a dozen 5/0 Toonder and Lightning.
I’ll only need one fish, maybe a twenty pounder. Forty would be nicer but I’m sure I can live with a twenty.
I don’t drink much Whatka, but I’m gonna need it back at the Hotel so that I can fortify and record the story of the days catch for the cowboys back home. Your selection would suit me since your experience with Whaka is much more developed than mine. “Sk?l” ! What week is available for fishing?
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“Pat…shut the alarm off will ya. I was having one hell of a …” 
Hey FISHN50, dont just leave us hanging, do a full report, maybe faol could use it for an article and I know i would love to hear all about it!
All the best.
Mike
For fly-fishing, it would be hard not to choose Florida for its freshwater AND saltwater species diversity.
Dreams are good!
For me, its not so much the “where”, as it is the species.
I’ve slowly whittled away at my “bucket list” fish, and I add to the list as time goes on, too.
Roosterfish was on my bucketlist. I caught one last Spring, although not on fly gear. I’m satisfied for now. Common Carp, Grass carp, peacock bass, oscar, and gar on fly gear have also been on my list in recent years…and have all gotten the “checkmark”. Walleye, brook trout and redear sunfish are still on the list. We’ll see what can be checked off this year.
Tarpon are on the list for the future as well.
every summer, Best Fishing Buddy and i pick a dream and go do it. this year it’s steelhead in Oregon, via a high school reunion. we have very small dreams, easily achieved.
my REAL dream? to arrive at the stream to find that The Hatch That Everyone Talks About has begun, the flies i tied work, and the camera never runs out of juice…haven’t done all three of those yet!
My dream trip would be two weeks by myself paddling on remote lakes in the Adirondacks, camping each night, with no cell phones or computers. I long for solitude, but with a wife I love dearly, a job I loathe, and two kids in college right now, solitude is rare and brief.
There a number of trips I would like to take and most are doable as I get closer to retirement. The first one that pops into my mind was started by a website article a few years ago. I can’t find that article anymore and would love to find it again so I could actually do it with my fishin buddy. It involved going to northern Wisconsin or the UP, getting on a train for about 60-80 minutes. The train enters Canada then stops in the middle of nowhere, you get dropped off and guy then picks you up and takes you to an isolated trophy northern lake. The article talked about 20 fish per day with many of those being well into the lunker category. It’s catch and release. After four or five days they take you back to the railroad where the train takes you back from where you started. I’d love to find that article again, any help out there?