The Aleutian Peninsula does not announce itself. It simply keeps going - westward, farther than expected - until the map looks unfinished. A broken chain of volcanoes and tundra stretches toward Russia, battered by the Bering Sea on one side and the Pacific on the other.

Very few places on this planet are home to brook trout big enough to lure fly fishermen into traveling great distances in pursuit of them. Rasmus Ovesen traversed the Atlantic Ocean to fly fish for brook trout in the Canadian province, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the fish that awaited him weren’t exactly small.

I waded gingerly into the heavy current and sent a cast whistling out across the turbulent waters. The fly swung across the face of the big smooth boulder twenty-five yards out and suddenly there was a flash of silver and then a savage, wrenching take. A blur of chrome-bright violence jack-knifed abruptly through the surface...

As a reader, I hope you have seen video footage of golden dorado feasting on baitfish in Bolivia because what I want to explain to you is best compared to that spectacle. But incredulously, we are talking about trout in Finland not anything so exotic as a South American jungle.