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Sportfishing & Adventure

Blue water, clear rivers and the far edge of the map: marlin off Fiji, trout on the Ahuriri, bonefish on South Andros, salmon by helicopter in Alaska and roped days on the Antarctic ice.

The idea

Sportfishing & Adventure

Some weeks are measured by what happens before breakfast: a line in the water at first light, a dive along a wall few others have seen, a helicopter lifting off for a river with no road to it.

This collection gathers the stays we reach for when the sport is the reason for the journey, from marlin water off Fiji to guided ice in Antarctica, each held by a house that makes the evenings as considered as the days.

Our Journal follows the angler’s year, from bonefish flats to salmon rivers, and our Alaska guide covers the rivers and mountains around Tordrillo.

For the water at its calmest, continue to Overwater & Lagoon; for the remote places these weeks so often reach, see Wild Frontiers.

The chapters

Where the sport leads

Six ways into the collection, each opened by a house that knows its water, its rivers or its ice.

Three of Kokomo’s sport-fishing boats running side by side across the open ocean
Photo courtesy of Kokomo Private Island

01 Fiji · The Bahamas · Bay of Islands

Saltwater flats and bluewater

Marlin water off the reef, bonefish on the flats and a bay that still gives up kingfish and snapper.

  • Kokomo Private Island

    Yellowfin, wahoo, sailfish and marlin on the outer reefs and seamounts of the Great Astrolabe Reef.

  • Bair’s Lodge

    Maverick skiffs from the lodge’s own beach to more than 120 square miles of South Andros bonefish flats.

  • Paroa Bay & Sage

    Game fishing from its own boat ramp in the Bay of Islands: snapper and kingfish, and marlin in season.

Two anglers casting on still, mirror-like water in the Ahuriri Valley near The Lindis
Photo courtesy of The Lindis Group

02 South Island, New Zealand

Rivers and trout

Clear South Island water, rainbow and brown trout, and the first cast never far from the door.

  • The Lindis

    Fly fishing on the Ahuriri River a short walk from the lodge, from a first lesson to a full guided day in season.

  • Mt Isthmus Villa

    Guided fly fishing for rainbow and brown trout from November to April, between Lake Hāwea and Lake Wānaka.

Anglers wading a braided river beside a landed helicopter on a heli-fishing day near Tordrillo Mountain Lodge
Photo: Tordrillo Mountain Lodge

03 Queenstown · Alaska

Heli and high country

Helicopters to rivers with no road, untracked powder in winter and salmon in the long evening light.

  • The Villa at Blanket Bay

    Jet boats up the glacier-fed Dart River, and helicopters from its own heli-pad to remote rivers and, in winter, untracked powder.

  • Tordrillo Mountain Lodge

    Helicopters from Judd Lake to private water for all five Pacific salmon; in June, corn snow in the morning and king salmon at night.

A swimmer in fins alongside a sperm whale in the deep blue water off Dominica
Photo courtesy of Secret Bay

04 Dominica · Anambas · North Sulawesi · Eastern Indonesia

Dive and reef

Reef walls, whale water and island chains read from the deck of a phinisi.

  • Secret Bay

    Scuba off one of the world’s top ten dive islands, a lionfish hunt, kayak fishing and swimming with the whales.

  • Bawah Reserve

    A PADI five-star dive center with marine biologists in residence, thirteen sites within fifteen minutes and no more than two divers per guide.

  • Amandira

    Aman’s phinisi, with dive and snorkel days from the yacht across the islands and reefs of eastern Indonesia.

  • Siladen Resort & Spa

    The coral walls of Bunaken from a white beach facing Manado Tua, with no more than four divers to a guide and blackwater dives by night.

  • Coral Eye

    Soft coral pinnacles and black sand macro off Bangka Island, from a dive resort founded by marine biologists.

Aerial view of Arenal Volcano above unbroken rainforest, with the casitas of Amor Arenal, near La Fortuna, Costa Rica set into the trees below
Photo courtesy of Amor Arenal

05 Arenal, Costa Rica

Rainforest and volcano

Canyons, white water and hanging bridges below Arenal, with hot springs waiting at the end of the day.

  • Amor Arenal

    Volcano treks, canyoning, white-water rafting and private expeditions to secluded waterfalls, then a heated plunge pool on every casita deck.

  • Nayara Tented Camp

    Hanging bridges, the lava fields of 1968, zip lines, waterfall rappels and white water on the Sarapiquí, with six hot spring pools for the evening.

Rope team walking beside a turquoise meltwater river between walls of ice
Photo: White Desert

06 Northwest Territories · Antarctica

Polar and far edges

Floatplanes to trophy water beneath the aurora, and guided ice at the bottom of the world.

  • Blachford Lodge

    Northern pike and lake trout on its own lake, floatplanes to Great Slave Lake, and ice fishing beneath the aurora in winter.

  • Whichaway Camp

    Ice climbing, glacier treks and nunatak summits on the Schirmacher Oasis, with IFMGA-certified mountain guides.

Featured

Leading stays

Central Otago · Resort

The Lindis

A lodge of eight rooms on the 6,500-acre Ben Avon Station in the Ahuriri Valley, its timber roof following the contours of the land, with braided rivers, tussock…

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Dominica · Resort, Villa

Secret Bay

An all-villa resort on a rainforest promontory above the Caribbean Sea in Dominica, the Nature Island: twenty-seven freestanding villas with private plunge pools and dedicated villa hosts, two…

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The collection

Further stays

Anambas Islands · Resort

Bawah Reserve

Six islands in Indonesia’s remote Anambas archipelago: thirty-six suites and villas among three marine reserve lagoons and a hundred hectares of primary forest, reached by seaplane from Batam…

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Indonesia Voyages · Resort

Amandira

Amandira is Aman’s phinisi sailing yacht for Indonesian voyages (a liveaboard yacht with limited cabins, teak decks, and itineraries oriented to eastern Indonesia’s islands and reefs (often the…

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Suggested journey

Write the week from this collection

A sequenced itinerary built from the houses above, opened by name.

Journey

North Sulawesi, a dive journey

Siladen Resort & Spa in Bunaken National Marine Park, then a private boat to Coral Eye on Bangka Island, with two dives along the way: the walls and the macro of North Sulawesi in one week.

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The places

Explore by destination

The destinations behind the houses above, for when you want the map before the week.

Fiji

Kadavu

Fiji’s Kadavu group, where the Great Astrolabe Reef runs for more than a hundred kilometres and Kokomo Private Island keeps beachfront villas and hilltop Residences on the reef’s edge.

New Zealand

Central Otago

Otago’s high country of lakes, schist ranges and mountain passes, and beyond the Lindis Pass the Ahuriri Valley, home of The Lindis.

New Zealand

Queenstown & Lake Wakatipu

The Southern Lakes around Queenstown, where The Villa at Blanket Bay keeps four King suites on a hill at the head of Lake Wakatipu.

Destination

Dominica

The Caribbean’s Nature Island: rainforest, 365 rivers, the world’s second-largest boiling lake and a UNESCO World Heritage site, with Secret Bay’s clifftop villas on its coast.

Indonesia

Anambas Islands

The Anambas Islands: six islands, three marine reserve lagoons, and thirteen beaches in Indonesia’s Riau Islands, home to Bawah Reserve and curated by Exclusive Villa Collection.

Antarctica

Queen Maud Land

Queen Maud Land, Antarctica: the blue-ice runway at Wolf’s Fang, the granite spires of the Drygalski Mountains and the ice-free Schirmacher Oasis, home to White Desert’s three camps.

New Zealand

Bay of Islands

New Zealand’s subtropical far north: 144 islands, sheltered coves and historic Russell, home to Paroa Bay and Sage Restaurant.

Destination

Indonesia Voyages

Aman’s Indonesian phinisi voyages: liveaboard teak and sail when the week is Komodo or spice-route water, not a static resort key.

Costa Rica

Arenal

The rainforest foothills of Arenal Volcano above La Fortuna, where Amor Arenal keeps thirty-one casitas on the edge of a forest canyon.

Destination

Northwest Territories

Canada's subarctic North: Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake, boreal lakes reached only by bush plane, and Northern Lights on more than 240 nights a year at Blachford Lodge.

Indonesia

North Sulawesi

The northern tip of Sulawesi, in the heart of the Coral Triangle: the coral walls of Bunaken National Marine Park, the soft coral pinnacles and black sand of Bangka Island, and volcanic highlands and rainforest a drive away.

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