ANGLING ACROSS HEMISPHERES
Expertise on & OFF the Water
We Fly. We Fish.
No Slack Loops offers remote guided angling across hemispheres. Bespoke expeditions to places not taken lightly and never forgotten. Experienced guides and trip hosts who make magic happen.
The hardest part often happens off the water. We manage the distance, the timing, and the details, so everything on the water feels simpler.
SERVICES
No Slack Loops provides knowledgable fly fishing guides and trips hosts — all with the experience to maximize your enjoyment on the freshwater and saltwater fly fishing locations we support.
We partner with exclusive lodges, fly fishing travel specialists, airlines and local indigenous communities to create bespoke, forensically planned angling expeditions to lightly fished secretive locations.
All expedition equipment can be provided, including fly fishing tackle, arrange licenses and permits. We liaise with the appropriate authorities to ensure we comply with all local regulations.
GUIDED EXPEDITIONS
Visit our Expeditions page for more bespoke, professionally guided and hosted adventures into some amazing places including New Zealand’s South Island, a bevy of Pacific atolls, Mexico, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Patagonian Chile and Argentina.
THREE DAY HELI-FISHING
Three day (plus two days travel) adventures in remote New Zealand staying in remote lodgings only accessible by helicopter or days of walking. Luckily we choose to take a helicopter.
We work in three distinct regional wilderness areas, all accessible within a day drive from Christchurch city, to allow us to avoid unfavorable weather conditions where possible.
INCLUSIONS
We provide everything down to new bedding, waders, boots and freshly brewed coffee. Bring yourself, your best mate and your New Zealand fishing license. We’ve got everything else covered. Excludes international travel and domestic flight transfer to Christchurch or Queenstown.
Price shown are in USD$ and is for the three day expedition (plus two part days of travel inclusive of lodge accommodation and meals). Our fare is fully inclusive of all services we provide. A comprehensive itinerary and inclusions is provided upon enquiry.
BESPOKE TRIP PLANNING
Please call us to discuss variations on this trip structure – such as daily fly-ins and luxury fishing lodge accommodation and meals for the duration of your adventure with us.
Manuae Atoll is not for the faint-hearted. This place is genuine No Slack Loops territory. It’s illegal to land here without securing a permit and having a guide. We are working with the landowners representatives to bring a few lucky anglers here.
THE ATOLL
Steeped in history, this duo of remote islands in the Cook Islands group has seen off longterm habitation and is now being preserved as a conservation estate. Onsite security protects the atoll from poachers seeking rare giant clams or to plunder the local fishery.
The facilities are primitive — a simple well with drinking water, a clearing with hut, remnants of prior occupation and a long-abandoned airstrip.
Entry from the vast blue water that brings us to Manuae is via a difficult tidal channel — requiring a second smaller boat to be used for access to shore. Once we have ferried our fishing gear and essentials, we can take a closer look at the fishery.
FISHING
Expect to see the world’s largest schools of giant trevally. They school up in hundreds and enter by the dozen. This is why we are here. You’ll fish for bonefish from modest size to well over 10lbs. This can be expected at an atoll that is very, very difficult to access. Which is why No Slack Loops is here.
TRAVEL
Talk to us about travel to Rarotonga and onto Manuae Island. Hawaiian Airlines runs a commercial route from Honolulu to Rarotonga and we can meet you there to accompany you to the atoll.
Trips are for up to a week and require tents, portable fans, basic cooking, local seafood and constant water purification to avoid dehydration.
This is a pioneering fly fishing expedition. If you are not fit and healthy, we recommend the excellent Aitutaki fishery within the Cook Islands.
Kanton Island, also called Abariringa, is part of the Phoenix Islands within the self-governing Republic of Kiribati. Kanton is the only permanently inhabited island in the Phoenix group today.
You may be familiar with Kiritimati (Christmas Island – CXI) which sits within the Line Islands group near the equator, along with Fanning Island that we also arrange hosted trips to. Kanton is located south-west of CXI by approximately 1900km (1200 miles). Access is by charter flight and the logistics of this alone are what help preserve this spectacular fishery to this day.
It is the largest and northeast island of the Phoenix group and has previously been referred to as Canton Island, Mary Island, Mary Balcout's Island or Swallow Island. Importantly, Kanton lies inside the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA).
The PIPA covers over 400,000 km² of ocean and islands, and Kanton is one of the core islands within the reserve. In fact, Kanton Atoll is the only inhabited atoll inside the protected area.
The protected area includes islands such as: Kanton, Nikumaroro, Rawaki, McKean, Oron and Enderbury Island (now Manra). It was established by Kiribati in 2008 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010. The region is famous for near-pristine coral reefs, deep-sea ecosystems, tuna migration routes, and immense pelagic biodiversity.
KANTON ISLAND
The atoll has a long aviation history from the flying boat and trans-Pacific refueling era. It has a modern airstrip but without regular flights. So we work closely with Kiribati residents and liaise directly with people on Kanton to coordinate all planning and on-site support (fuel, runway observation and maintenance, meals, water, hygiene and on-island supplies).
Flight routes are not from Tarawa as might be expected and present the first major obstacle. Some previous visitations were by boat with these illegal missions falling foul of the permit only requirement for shore access.
Similar to Fanning Island, the airport is situated in the north-west point of the atoll and Kanton’s major channel flows through west side low lying lands. Aside from this channel, only one other small rupture to the north — a tidal channel opening onto spectacular white sand flats — the land mass above high tide entirely encircles the lagoon.
KANTON’S FISHERY
In short, the fishery is magical with superb giant trevally fly fishing to rival that of any other remote Kiribati atoll destination. This may not always be the case and increased protections and surveillance is being put in places including policing by the newly established Line & Phoenix Islands Guides Association who are working closely with the local Ministry of Fisheries.
We are organizing expeditions for 2027 and welcome contact from anglers wishing to join these sanctioned exploratory missions. We have a singular rod (space) remaining on our first 2027 trip, but have opened up a second date for interested parties.
We are Pacific atoll specialists and arrange expeditions to Manuae and Penrhyn Islands in the Cook Islands group, to Kanton and Fanning Islands in the Republic of Kiribati as well as introductory level adventures in Kiritimati (CXI) and Aitutaki near Rarotonga.
CHOOSE AN ATOLL
We meet at a major Pacific Island destination where we are flown to a remote pacific atoll for five days of pioneering saltwater flats angling.
The images shown are of Fanning Island however there are numerous other locations that are largely unfished and typically do not even warrant a mention on lists of popular fly fishing destinations located in the Pacific Ocean.
LOGISTICS
We arrange charter or commercial flights (included in our fare) from our agreed major international destination (typically Rarotonga, CXI, Tarawa or Tahiti).
We work alongside the indigenous community who provide local guides, accommodation and boats. This is as isolated as you can be on Planet Earth and still be smiling.
INCLUSIONS
Minimum of two anglers. All food, provisions, gear and licenses are provided. All prices are in USD$. The price is indicative only and a full itinerary will be developed in conjunction with you. Expect coconuts, papaya, local mantis shrimp and lobster, sustainably-caught blue water fish such as yellowfin tuna or wahoo.
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS
We have exclusive access onto the upper Rio Grande and its tributaries above the Chile border. We can float fish the entire Rio Blanco from Lago Blanco to its confluence with the Rio Grande — the most storied sea-run brown trout fishery on earth — that runs down to the Argentina coast, passing through many fly fishing lodges during its winding journey.
Staying at newly built private cabins within the Las Segadas Lodge allows us access to spring creeks teeming with resident fish (expect to catch up to 30 per day if you choose) and a myriad of private waterways within this estancia.
We have partnered with Isolation Outfitters to run bespoke adventures on 200,000 hectares. Expect to see guanaco, grey foxes, spectacular soaring birds and fishing that’s up with the best the New Zealand offers.
THE FISHERY
From late February to mid-April, fish for large sea-run brown trout returning up the Rio Grande. From November to December, fish the Rio Chico, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Rio Catalina, and a myriad of spring creeks and unnamed virgin water on this estancia.
Las Segadas Lodge opened in February 2026 and previously this huge Tierra del Fuego farming station — including all waters not publicly accessible — were only infrequently fished by friends of the estancia’s owner. It’s is truly virgin territory in the heart of Chile’s Rio Grande.
INCLUSIONS
All prices are in USD$ and exclude international travel to Santiago de Chile and accommodation and flight transfer to Punta Arenas. From there, we manage your charter or commercial flight to Tierra del Fuego, your short (25min) road transfers to the lodge and everything right up to your arrival back into Punta Arenas.
Aitutaki is the perfect Pacific destination to bring non-fishing partners and to create bespoke small group expeditions. The atoll offers diving, lagoon cruises with snorkeling, moped, kayak and bike hire, blue-water trips, guided walks and a stunning beachfront and resort-side pools for those seeking some relaxed time in the sun.
ARRIVING
Take the Alaska Airlines weekly route to Rarotonga landing Friday night and we’ll be there to meet you. We stay at one of the beachfront hotels before transferring up to Aitutaki after breakfast and coffee on Saturday morning.
Depending on your preference for accommodation, we’ll arrive on a stunning island resort, or unpack our bags at a holiday villa, then head down to the beach for a half day on the water to get warmed up for the week ahead.
Sunday is a spiritual and family-centric day for the Aitutaki community and we respect that by spending the day exploring, perhaps taking a tourist trip around the atoll or out into the blue water to watch whales (seasonal), and enjoy a big dinner out on the town.
FISHING
Monday through Friday is about catching giant trevally, bonefish, triggerfish and other local species. We enjoy a quick cooked breakfast before meeting our guides and boats at the water’s edge. We take packed lunches and cool beverages each day.
Expect to fish for bonefish up to 10lbs and GT’s up to and over 60lbs. This is a healthy and remote fishery.
DEPARTURE
We relocate back to Rarotonga on Saturday morning or Friday evening to ensure you make the return flight to Honolulu. For those carrying on to New Zealand or Australia, you have much more flexibility in flight days and times.
EVERY FISH IS EARNED
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