About Exploration Angling
Exploration Angling isn’t about casting in the easy places. We’re all about hauling rod cases through airports, stuffing gear into bush planes, running tides in battered skiffs, and finding fish where social media hasn’t fully penetrated yet.
Exploration Angling is fly fishing for those who go further.
Here’s what we do to help you:
Regular dispatches from isolated rivers and remote saltwater flats;
Packing lists built from the scars of trips gone wrong (and right);
No-nonsense reviews on the gear and lodges that matter when you’re days from anywhere;
Plus The Weekly Five – a lean hit of fly fishing news, always free, every week.
Some stories are free. The deeper dives – the destination profiles we want to share with friends, the full gear breakdowns, New Zealand’s secret backcountry, and the kind of intel you’re prepared to pay for – well, that’s for the subscribers who chip in to keep this work alive. We’re thankful to this group of avid anglers.
Every subscription keeps us independent, fuels the next trip, and helps us shine a light on the wild corners most anglers will never see.
If you’re in it for the adventure: the missed flights, the broken rods, the fish of a lifetime, this is your campfire. Pull up a log.
So why subscribe?
That’s simple. To get full access to everything we’re putting out and into the wild: the free weekly dispatches, destination articles, and our full archive of past stories.
Think of your free subscription as your personal field guide to exploration angling. Kind of a no-brainer to subscribe, isn’t it?
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Be part of this community
This isn’t just a newsletter – it’s a campfire so gather ‘round. Join the conversation in the comments, tell us what you want to read, and help keep this work independent with a subscription. Give us a ‘Like’ by clicking on the heart at the bottom of the article — it really spurs us on. Your support fuels the next story, the next trip, the next frontier.
Join the crew
Got a story to tell? Gear worth sharing? A spot you’ve stumbled on that you’re keen to share (no coordinates or distinguishing details, please)? Drop us a line at news@explorationangling.com and get it into the mix.
Thanks for being part of this.
The team at NZ Flyfisher,
Wānaka, New Zealand
EXPLORATION ANGLING is published by NZ Flyfisher from Wānaka in New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. We also publish Southflyfisher. If you would like to contribute, please contact us with your draft.
Here’s some fun
Find out where your editor, Michael Gregg, is fishing in the 2025-2026 season. Recently, over on No Slack Loops, Michael started jotting down a few tales.
Head over there to enjoy the behind-the-scenes chaos of angling life.
