Summer Trip Planning
by Richard French, 26 January 2010

It’s sometimes tough to think about your summer fishing trip to places like Alaska, Canada or Iceland when it’s late January and its -20 outside, with 3 feet of snow on the ground. Our natural instinct is to still be thinking about a trip to Belize, the Bahamas or Cuba, where the idea of sand, palm trees and sun drenched days on the flats call far more strongly to our wondering angling spirit than loading your gear and climbing on board a bush plane for a flight over snow capped mountains.The summer fishing season in the Northern Hemisphere is very short, with many lodges operating with summer seasons consisting of 12 weeks per year or less. Mid June to Mid September is about it, so space really is at a premium. Especially when you are thinking about staying at one of the better lodges, where prime weeks are often booked out up to two years in advance.  If you want to go to Canada, Alaska or Norway in the summer of 2010, you need to be thinking about and planning your trip, now. If you let it side into March or April, you will be left sorely disappointed in terms of optimal weeks. Particularly, if you want to be species specific on your trip. For example, if you want to target the BIG RAINBOWS of Alaska, the best time of year for you to go is late in the season, having let the big ‘bows fatten up all summer. This means that there will likely only be 2 or 3 optimal weeks for this pursuit. If you are not thinking about this now, I assure you that there are plenty of smart anglers who are and they are the ones who will end up with the Golden weeks that are sure to produce the biggest fish.

Even if you are not being species specific, the same goes for places like Norway and Russia, where environmental conditions like the river flows and rain levels dictate that the best times to fish for Atlantic Salmon are generally the last 3 weeks of June and into the second week in July. As a result, these weeks are in great demand and you won’t even get a sniff of one of these weeks if you’re calling the month or two before.

Start thinking about your summer trip now. Figure out what your priorities for the trip are and when the best time for you to go is. If you’re not sure about optimal weeks or if you have any questions about any of our outstanding Northern destinations and facilities, please call me and I’ll be happy to help. 

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