Frontiers International Travel | Guided Fly Fishing Trip Planning
Fly Fishing Insider Podcast
Frontiers International Travel: Trip Planning
Fly Fishing Insider Podcast is an Authorized Agent for Frontiers International Travel, a fly fishing travel company running since 1969. Tell us where you want to fish and we hand you to a Frontiers specialist who books the lodge, flights, transfers and insurance. It costs the same as booking Frontiers direct, with lodge stays starting from $2,556 per angler. The trips on this page are a small sample: Frontiers books roughly 250 lodges worldwide across freshwater, saltwater and wingshooting, plus fully custom itineraries.
Itching to book that next trip and want it done right? We've teamed up with Frontiers International Travel to help you plan and book guided fly fishing trips, from bucket-list destinations to weekend getaways you haven't gotten around to yet. The lodges featured below are just a handful of examples, not the full menu. Have a destination, species or date in mind that isn't listed here? Ask; odds are Frontiers can book it. Tell us where you want to fish below, and we'll personally connect you with Frontiers' travel specialists to build your trip.
Fly Fishing Insider Podcast has a referral partnership with Frontiers International Travel. If you book a trip after being introduced through us, we may receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
What Does Booking Through Fly Fishing Insider Cost You?
Nothing. Booking your trip through Fly Fishing Insider costs you nothing beyond what you'd pay booking with Frontiers International Travel directly: same rates, same trip. What you gain is a warm introduction and full-service planning from a company that's been doing this since 1969.
What Frontiers Handles
- The lodge booking itself, plus honest advice on which week to fish
- Flights and ground transfers, including charter flights when your trip needs one
- Travel protection through Arch Insurance, recommended for U.S. travelers
- 24/7 support while you're on the road
- Access to relationships built over 50-plus years: Virtuoso, Four Seasons Preferred Partners, The Dorchester Diamond Club, Belmond, Abercrombie & Kent, Lindblad Expeditions, Seabourn and Silversea
What to Confirm Yourself
- Passport validity and any visa or entry requirement for your destination
- Which meals, drinks and guide days the lodge rate actually includes; it varies lodge to lodge
- Fishing licences and any national park or marine reserve fee
- Guide and lodge staff gratuities, which are almost never in the package price
- Your own rods, reels, lines and flies unless the lodge states otherwise
Your Frontiers specialist will confirm every one of these in writing for the specific lodge and week you're looking at. Ask.
A Taste of What's Waiting
Photos: Bristol Bay Lodge, Alaska, courtesy of Frontiers International Travel
How Much Does a Guided Fly Fishing Trip Cost?
A guided fly fishing lodge stay booked through Frontiers International Travel starts from $2,556 per angler, and what moves the price is mostly how remote the water is and how many anglers the lodge takes. Three bands cover almost everything Frontiers books. The lodges shown in each band are examples, not the full list; every figure below is the published starting rate for that specific lodge, not an average.
Starting rates are per angler and rise with season, room type, length of stay and guide arrangement. Flights, gratuities and licences sit outside most of them.
When Should You Book a Winter Fly Fishing Trip?
If you want to fish somewhere warm between December and April, the booking conversation happens now: late summer through fall. Southern-hemisphere and tropical lodges run short seasons with small angler counts, so the prime weeks are spoken for long before the weather turns at home. Here is what the calendar actually looks like at four of the many winter lodges Frontiers International Travel books.
That last row is the kind of thing an agent who only sells you a week doesn't volunteer. Belize in December is a good trip. It is not a tarpon trip. Knowing that before you book is the difference between a great week and a quietly disappointing one.
Where Should You Go? Here's a Start.
Frontiers International Travel books two kinds of trips: pre-planned packages with set dates and pricing you can book right now, and fully custom one-off itineraries built around your dates, your budget, and your bucket list. Whichever way you go, there's a trip here whether you want an affordable long weekend or the trip of a lifetime. The six below are examples to start the conversation, not the menu:
Argentina: Kau Tapen Lodge, Tierra del Fuego
The matriarch lodge on the legendary Rio Grande, hosting only 10-12 anglers a week for a shot at the world's largest sea-run brown trout. This is the bucket-list pick. Starting from $12,950/week, all-inclusive.
New Zealand: Owen River Lodge, South Island
Five-star lodge near Murchison with over 25 rivers within a 90-minute drive and some of the best sight-fishing for wild trout on earth, right at the doorstep of the Marlborough wine region. Starting from $8,680/week, double occupancy.
Mexico: Palometa Club, Ascension Bay
Widely considered the permit capital of the world, with two guides per boat chasing the full grand slam. A more affordable saltwater trip that still delivers. Starting from $4,950 for a 5-7 night stay.
Belize: El Pescador Resort, Ambergris Caye
A Forbes Top 10 eco-resort chasing tarpon, bonefish and permit, with short stays available, one of the most accessible price points on this list, and reef diving, Mayan ruins, zip-lining and cave tubing when you want a day off the water. Starting from $2,556.
Canada: Scott Lake Lodge, Northwest Territories/Saskatchewan Border
Remote, wild, and built for trophy pike and lake trout across half a million acres of water; boats routinely land 50 to 100 fish a day. Starting from $9,195 for 5 days.
Domestic: Alaska & Montana
Don't want to leave the country? Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska (pictured above) is the domestic bucket-list trip: fly-out fishing for all five species of Pacific salmon, starting from $14,950/week. Or stay closer to home entirely at Big Hole Lodge in Montana, no passport required, floating and wading for wild browns, rainbows, brookies and cutthroats. Starting from $4,966.
This is just a starting list. Frontiers books roughly 250 lodges worldwide across freshwater, saltwater and wingshooting, and builds fully custom trips beyond that. If the place you have in mind isn't on this page, that doesn't mean we can't get you there. Want the long version first? Read 10 Bucket-List Fly-Fishing Destinations, or see what a trip with Frontiers actually looks like. Then tell us your budget and your bucket list below.
It's Not Just About the Fish
Frontiers books more than fishing trips. A lot of their lodges, and their fully custom itineraries, pair days on the water with everything else a trip can be:
Family & Corporate: Brush Creek Ranch, Wyoming. Condé Nast Traveler's #1 Resort in the USA. Fly fishing paired with horseback riding, sporting clays, archery, ATV touring, and a full-service spa. Built for both family ranch vacations and corporate group retreats.
Reef & Ruins: El Pescador Resort, Belize. Flats fishing by day, diving the world's second-largest barrier reef, touring Mayan ruins, zip-lining, and cave tubing the rest of the trip.
Wine Country: Owen River Lodge, New Zealand. Wild trout sight-fishing right at the doorstep of Marlborough, one of the great wine regions of the Southern Hemisphere.
Fully Custom: Golf, Safaris, Culture, Romance. Frontiers' Elegant Journeys team, running since 1983, builds bespoke itineraries around golf, wine touring, cultural journeys, wildlife safaris, cruising, and family or romance travel, paired with any fishing destination on this page or anywhere else in the world.
Tell us what the trip needs to include, not just where you want to fish.
Who Should Book Through Frontiers, and Who Should Skip It?
Booking a lodge week through Frontiers International Travel is not the right move for every trip, and saying so is cheaper for everyone than a bad week. Here's the honest split.
Go for it if
- This is your first international saltwater trip and you don't want to be the one sorting a charter flight in a country you've never been to
- You're moving a group: a family, a corporate retreat, four friends who need four seats on the same week
- Someone on the trip doesn't fish, and the trip has to work for them too
- Your dates are fixed and you need someone with lodge relationships working the calendar for you
- Something goes wrong mid-trip and you'd rather call a person than an airline queue
Skip it if
- You want a guide for a day or two on water close to home; that's a guide booking, not a lodge week. Start with Certified Guides & Lodges instead
- You're a committed DIY traveller who'd rather book the flights, the rental and the rooms yourself and fish unguided
- Your budget is pinned to the very bottom of the accessible band and your dates can't move; the cheapest weeks and the most popular weeks are rarely the same weeks
- You're chasing one specific fish in a month that fish isn't there. Ask us that question before you ask about price
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Watch: Trips With Frontiers →Prices, availability, flight routing and entry requirements change. Every figure on this page is the starting rate published by the lodge or by Frontiers International Travel at the time of writing, per angler, and is a starting point for a quote, not a quote. Seasons, lodge capacity, charter schedules, visa and passport rules and licence requirements can all change without notice. Confirm current pricing, availability and entry requirements with your Frontiers specialist before you book anything. More questions? Read the Frontiers Travel Trip Planning FAQ.