Private Expeditions
World Trips
Hand-selected fisheries. Personally hosted. Built around the way you fish.
A Word From Max
I caught my first tarpon before I could drive. Since then, I've chased fish across three continents — from the mangroves of my home waters in Holbox to the alpine lakes of British Columbia, the flats of Belize, the backcountry of the Florida Keys.
I'm not an outfitter. I'm a fisherman who built a life around showing other people the water I can't stop thinking about. Every trip I run is a trip I'd take myself.
How It Works
Three steps. One unforgettable trip.
01
Consultation
We start with a conversation — your goals, target species, preferred style of fishing, group composition, and timeline. No forms, no templates. Just a real discussion about what you're after.
02
Bespoke Planning
I handle every detail — destination selection, guide pairing, accommodations, meals, logistics, and gear. You receive a complete itinerary built specifically for your group. Nothing is pre-packaged.
03
Fish
Show up and fish. Whether I'm hosting personally or you're with one of our trusted partner guides, every element has been arranged. Your only job is to be on the water, ready.
Isla Holbox, Mexico
Home Fishery
Isla Holbox
This is our home fishery. I've spent more days on these waters than I can count, and they still surprise me. The mangroves hold baby tarpon that eat flies with reckless abandon — ten-pound fish that go airborne the second they feel the hook. And when the migratory push comes in May, you're casting to hundred-fifty-pound silver kings in open water, heart in your throat. Resident big tarpon show on calm mornings outside the windy winter months, and the bycatch keeps it interesting — jacks, sea trout, barracuda, the occasional cobia. Permit and bonefish are here too, rare but real. Nobody knows these tides, these channels, these fish like we do.
Duration
2–6 days
Group Size
1–4 anglers
Difficulty
All levels
Accommodation
Boutique island lodges
A Day on the Water
On the water at first light, mangroves still shadowed
Morning through midday on baby tarpon and snook
Lunch on the boat or back at the lodge
Evening session for migratory tarpon when the season's right
Ambergris Caye, Belize
Grand Slam Destination
Belize
Bonefish as far as you can wade. That's Belize. We fish these flats on foot, stalking fish in knee-deep water for hours, and the bones here are relentless — school after school, tailing in the shallows. But the grand slam lives here too: permit that materialize like ghosts, tarpon rolling in the channels, jacks, triggerfish, snapper, barracuda all in the same week. I've fished these cayes with the same guides for years — men I'd trust with my own trips, not outfitters I found online.
Duration
5–7 days
Group Size
1–4 anglers
Difficulty
Intermediate
Accommodation
Beachfront caye lodges
A Day on the Water
Pre-dawn coffee, on the flats at sunrise
Wade-fishing bones and permit through the midday tide
Lunch back on the caye, siesta through the heat
Evening session on the reef edge for jacks and snapper
The Keys, Florida
Classic Saltwater
Florida Keys
America's saltwater cathedral. From the mangrove tunnels of Flamingo in Everglades National Park, where redfish push wakes through the creeks, to the white-sand flats outside Key West where permit, tarpon, and bonefish all swim in the same day. We do this from a skiff — poling silently, eyes on the water, waiting for the flash that changes everything. This is where the grand slam was invented, and it still feels holy every single time.
Duration
4–6 days
Group Size
1–2 anglers
Difficulty
Intermediate to Advanced
Accommodation
Waterfront lodges & inns
A Day on the Water
Launch before light, run to the flat of the day
Morning poling for permit and bones
Midday backcountry push for redfish in the creeks
Tarpon at dusk on the falling tide
Pacific Northwest, Canada
Wilderness Expedition
British Columbia
Wilderness that swallows you whole. Two seasons define it. In late July through early September, aggressive bull trout smash big streamers as they migrate toward spawning grounds, and cutthroats rise to dry flies in remote alpine lakes — some holding truly massive, brilliantly colored fish. Come October, the rivers come alive: post-spawn bulls flooding back down, hungry and relentless, nearly every cast a twenty-to-forty-inch fish. We chase lake trout from rocky shorelines and packrafts in gin-clear water, and in the right conditions we sight-fish them — a rare experience you'll carry for life.
Duration
5–8 days
Group Size
1–4 anglers
Difficulty
Intermediate
Accommodation
Remote cabins & wilderness camps
A Day on the Water
Float or hike into remote water at dawn
Full day on bull trout and cutthroats
Shore lunch on a gravel bar
Packraft sessions for lake trout in the evenings
Xcalak, Mexico
Permit Specialist
Xcalak
The permit capital most people have never heard of. Remote and unspoiled, sitting at the southern tip of the Yucatán where the flats stretch to the horizon. Big permit — some of the largest you'll find anywhere on the flats. But what happens here in late spring is almost mythic: permit rising to dry flies. I've seen it. It shouldn't be real, and it is. Bonefish and tarpon round out the action year-round, but spring and summer are when this place is firing on every cylinder.
Duration
5–7 days
Group Size
1–2 anglers
Difficulty
Advanced
Accommodation
Boutique beachfront lodge
A Day on the Water
Early flats session for tailing permit
Midday break to escape the heat
Afternoon push for bones and tarpon
Evening at the lodge, stories on the dock
Northeast Rivers, Vermont
Home Waters
Vermont
This is home. The high mountain ponds full of wild brook trout no bigger than your hand but colored like jewels. The rivers holding browns, rainbows, salmon, and more. The lakes offering everything a freshwater angler could dream of — including one of the best lake trout fisheries on the East Coast. Timed right in spring or fall, you can hunt and fish in the same day, a cast-and-blast that fills a truck with stories. Vermont is a gem the outdoorsman hasn't fully discovered, and I can't vouch for my home state enough.
Duration
3–5 days
Group Size
1–4 anglers
Difficulty
All levels
Accommodation
Riverside lodges & farm stays
A Day on the Water
Dawn on a mountain pond for brookies
Morning float for browns and rainbows
Lunch streamside
Evening rise, cast-and-blast option in season
The Viva Standard
Not a Checklist. A Promise.
It's what happens when someone who actually fishes these waters handles every detail of your trip — the guide who knows where the fish push on a falling tide, the lodge that doesn't just have a bed but the right bed, the itinerary that bends with the weather instead of fighting it.
Private groups. No strangers. Every decision made by someone who'd make the same one for themselves.
You show up. We handle the rest. That's the standard.
No Destination Off The Table
Build Your Own
Expedition
Anywhere in the world — I'll research, plan, and execute a seamless fishing adventure built around you. Hosted or unhosted, solo or with a crew. The network exists to make it happen.
Past expeditions have ranged from a week-long bull trout float in British Columbia to a permit pilgrimage on the flats of Xcalak. Same result, every time: a trip of a lifetime.
"Well connected, well experienced, and deeply passionate — this is what I do."
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Every Trip, Built Around You
Fishing locations, accommodations, meals, transportation — I handle every detail. You just show up and fish.
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