Where the lodge facts come from
FlyFishLodges describes 237 fly-fishing lodges in 30 countries on the same fields: the water, the fish, the months, how the fishing is done, the guiding, the rules on keeping fish, the number of guests and the price the lodge publishes. Lodge websites are written to sell a week, so the season sits on one page, the rate sheet in a PDF and the rule about keeping a salmon in the FAQ. Here they sit in one table per lodge.
Nobody behind this site has fished these lodges, and nothing on it comes from a visit; there is no staff and no field testing. It is built from what the lodges and their agents publish, and every lodge page lists the pages it was built from.
Which lodges are listed
A lodge is listed when fly fishing is what it is for, not a side activity at a resort. Lodges that also guide with spinning gear are included and labelled, and so are the few lodges that have no website and sell only through booking agents. A lodge should be taking guests for the 2026 or 2027 season. When none of the sources behind its page shows 2026 or 2027 dates, rates or a booking calendar, the lodge is still listed but carries a “Season not confirmed” note (46 lodges at present), and the 2 lodges that have not opened yet say when they do.
Where each fact comes from
The lodge's own website comes first: its rates, season and booking pages, the fishing and species pages, the FAQ and the getting-there notes. A booking agency's page fills in what the lodge leaves out, and it is the only source for lodges with no website and for those whose website could not be used. Those pages say their details come from booking agents, and the Sources list on every lodge page says which kind of site each link is and which facts it supports. Nothing on a page is copied from those sites: the facts are theirs, the wording is ours. 9 lodge websites could not be read for this catalog; those pages say so, and their facts come from agencies.
What “Not published” means
When a lodge does not say something, the page says so rather than estimating it or borrowing a figure from a lodge nearby. How many of the 237 lodges publish each detail:
- Fly-only rule204 of 237
- Gear provided199 of 237
- Wi-Fi174 of 237
- Guests at a time171 of 237
- Guide-to-angler ratio165 of 237
- Catch-and-release policy110 of 237
- Year established98 of 237
Prices
A price is shown as the lodge publishes it, in its own currency (CAD, EUR, GBP, ISK, NZD, SEK, USD), with what it covers and the season it is for. 197 lodges publish one; the rest show “Price on request”. Prices are never converted on the page. The price filter and the price sort use a fixed, approximate exchange table, so a lodge close to the edge of a band can fall on either side of it. The 16 lodges that price by the night or the day are kept out of the week-package bands rather than multiplied out, because their nights and their guiding are often sold separately. The same goes for the one lodge sold only as a whole-lodge or whole-boat charter, priced for the party rather than per person. Where the newest rate a lodge publishes is older than 2026 (9 lodges), the page shows its year and says so.
Seasons and map pins
The season strip on each lodge shows the months from the lodge's first to its last published fishing month, wrapping through the new year for the southern hemisphere, so a Patagonian season reads November to April. Peak weeks and the timing of runs and hatches are in the notes under it. 104 of the 237 map pins mark the lodge itself; the others sit on the nearest village, lake or river or the general area, and each lodge page says which.
No scores and no rankings
Lodges carry no star rating and no score, and none is ranked above another: the listing starts in alphabetical order, and every other sort is by a published fact. Destinations get a page of their own once 3 lodges share them, and a fish once 3 lodges share it and at least one of them fishes mainly for it. A lodge appears here because it meets the criteria above, not at anyone's request.
Corrections
Seasons move, rates rise every year and lodges change hands. If something here is out of date, the contact form is the way to say so. A link to the page where the lodge publishes the right figure is the most useful thing to send.