Anglers dedicated to chasing silver 24-7-365 view the 12-month calendar differently than most; we see it in terms of fish migration. The year begins with spring freshet and the arrival of salmon. In the Atlantic, this means Salmo salar, the royal Atlantic salmon. In the Pacific, it means chinook, the king of all sea-runs. Following the tyee come coho, chum, pink and sockeye — and, with much antici
pation, steelhead, our keystone species. For Oncorhynchus mykiss, summer is only the beginning of a magnificent, nearly year-long parade. Additionally, Arctic char offer a unique, top-of-the-world adventure in late summer, and giant sea trout in Argentine Patagonia provide anadromous fish lovers ample incentive to visit the austral extremes in January, February and March. This is all to say: On any given day of the year, somewhere on the planet, there is a big, bright, sea-run fish, charged with the ocean’s relentless energy and deep mystery, pushing into a river, ready and willing to ambush a well-presented fly. All we need to do is get there and make the cast.
