This is Part 2 on The Ridge Lodge, and fly fishing in Alaska. Part 1 can be found here. In Alaska, catching fish isn’t hard — most guides can find you fish. But not all guides are fun to spend a week ...

A Fly Fishing Trip of a Lifetime, and the Plane That Will get you There At the dock of the fly fishing lodge, everyone piles in. Four guests, 2 guides, and pilot, plus a couple of hundred pounds of ...

Our 42-passenger plane lands with ease on the mile-long sand runway just south of the Arctic Circle. Scraggly black spruce trees line the sides of the airstrip and water laps gently at one end. We are ...

Fly-fishing is all about finding perfect solitude. It is, first and foremost, a sport that allows you to turn off your brain and meditate on nothing more than a clean cast as you listen to the sound ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Dobson is a full-time luxury travel writer based in Italy. John Muir, the famed naturalist, wrote in his journal that "you ...

After walking away from a twenty-year guiding career in Alaska to write full-time, I’m getting the chance to return for one more week on the water. This is the third installment of a ten-part series ...

Gimmicks and flash don't amount to much when your work depends on your gear. Here’s a list of my favorite equipment that proved its worth in Alaska. Earlier this summer, I was asked to guide at The ...