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OUTDOOR PURSUITS<br />
© HAWKS CAY RESORT<br />
© RIFFLIN’ HITCH LODGE<br />
© BIG CEDAR LODGE<br />
WATER WORKS<br />
Clockwise from top:<br />
Hawks Cay Resort;<br />
Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge,<br />
Canada; Big Cedar Lodge<br />
Facing page:<br />
Steamboat Bay<br />
Fishing Club<br />
bigeye tuna, albacore, wahoo, red snappers,<br />
barracuda and more. After fishing, enjoy<br />
the island’s namesake fortified wines and<br />
exquisite cuisine. The historic luxury hotel sits<br />
on the same harbour in Funchal as the charter<br />
sportfishing fleet.<br />
After billfish, salmon are probably the<br />
quarry more anglers make bucket-list trips<br />
for than any others, and the biggest, the king<br />
salmon (also known as chinook), is practically<br />
synonymous with Alaska. For this reason,<br />
despite a short summer season, Alaska is<br />
full of destination salmon lodges, none<br />
swankier than Steamboat Bay Fishing Club<br />
(steamboatbay.com). It’s operated like a toptier<br />
African safari lodge, with a private boat<br />
and captain for each of the ten lodge rooms<br />
or the eight-person residence, and all meals,<br />
wines, top-shelf drinks, fish processing to take<br />
home, and seaplane transfers from Ketchikan<br />
are included. Cabin cruisers are custom made<br />
for the region, with full bathrooms, heated<br />
cabins, and stable rides with shock absorber<br />
seats. It’s hard not to catch your king salmon<br />
daily limits here, along with big halibut, cod,<br />
rockfish and silver (coho) salmon.<br />
In Alaska, Pacific salmon are commonly<br />
caught in deep water with conventional<br />
saltwater tackle, but Atlantic salmon are<br />
also one the biggest prizes for avid flyfishing<br />
junkies, and for that it is hard to beat<br />
remote and luxurious Rifflin’ Hitch Lodge<br />
(rifflinhitchlodge.com) on the famed Eagle<br />
River in Canada’s Labrador. There are no roads<br />
here, and guests arrive in Goose Bay and are<br />
flown in by the Lodge’s A-Star 350 helicopters<br />
or Cessna Grand Caravans. Guests are also<br />
flown daily to angling hot spots, including<br />
Rifflin’s satellite day lodge in a National Park<br />
Preserve to fish for jumbo trout. The main<br />
event is trophy-sized Atlantic salmon, but<br />
anglers also land huge brook trout and Arctic<br />
char. All fishing is catch and release, but the<br />
food is gourmet and there is no shortage of<br />
the local specialties, along with fine wines.<br />
There are just seven suites and a ratio of one<br />
guide for every two guests, much better than<br />
industry standards.<br />
Iceland is world famous for its fly-fishing<br />
because of some unique policies. While it has<br />
many pristine lakes and some of the best sea<br />
trout, char, and salmon streams in the world,<br />
all fishing rights are privately owned and<br />
mostly leased to outfitters. This means fishing<br />
is severely limited on all the best waters,<br />
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