Thursday, March 31st 2011
The wind blew all night long. I woke up sweat in the middle of the dark ... I fished it again!It had been already 30 days since I started dreaming about a pristine wild brown: a big brown t...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Writer Adrian Latimer, on one of his exploratory trips on the Limay River. This time he was targeting migratory browns on sinking lines and big streamers. Over the years Adrian fo...
San Martin de los Andes, Patagonia, Argentina An Objective Appraisal of the Middle Limay
The Middle Limay may just be the best kept secret in trout fishing in Argentina. Ask any foreign, international fisher for the...
San Martin de los Andes, Patagonia, Argentina A tape measure and a monster brown. This is a pic from 2 years ago on the Limay. On one of our exploratory trips. Before the construction of Limay River
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Piedra del Aguila, Neuquen , Argentina We've been fishing the Middle Limay River for 3 days with 2, riverside camp, overnights. We found this outstanding tailwaters river with a very low water level, which made each of i...
Piedra del Aguila , Patagonia, Argentina This is not a migratory brown. this is a resident Limay sunset brown taken by Jorge Trucco in April. This shows you what a tail-water fishery produces. There are plenty of these f...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Friend, partner and fisherman, Patrick Steverlynck, before releasing a migratory summer brown trout on the Limay River. Migratory browns start running upriver as early as November....
San Carlos de Bariloche, Neuquen - Rio Negro, Argentina I went fishing to the famous Limay River outlet (mouth) and stayed there for several hours. It was hard! When there were only 15 minutes of remaining light, I had a...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Friend and fisherman Lauren Le Flanchec left Limay River Lodge today. During 6 straight days he averaged 50 fish a day, both rainbows and browns between 20 and 26 inches. All fishi...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Friend and fisherman Lauren Le Flanchec left Limay River Lodge today. During 6 straight days he averaged 50 fish a day, both rainbows and browns between 20 and 26 inches. All fishi...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Friend and fisherman Lauren Le Flanchec left Limay River Lodge today. During 6 straight days he averaged 50 fish a day, both rainbows and browns between 20 and 26 inches. All fishi...
One of the most important food sources for trout in Patagonia is the Sammastacus or river lobster. It is one of the three kinds of crustaceans, together with the pancoras and scuds, that inhabit these waters and which ar...
Internationally known as Willy, there is no need to say his surname to know who we are talking about. He has been a guide for 30 years in Bariloche, Esquel, Rio Grande and in several countries, for instance, in Venezuela...
After
awakening on June 4, 2011, with the eruption at the Puyehue-Caulle Volcanic
Complex, different organizations immediately started monitoring the area in
order to identify the implications of this phenomenon on th...
This page is lacking a very important subtype of flies: Atlantic salmon flies (traditional and tube-flies). They can't be listed under the name of "streamers". I am no creating any type of new fly on this post....
Northern Patagonia Argentina fishing season have almost seven months throughout you may experience different type of wheather, waters as well as fly fishing styles, so having the right information will be the first step ...
Fd: How was your fly-fishing operation in Northern Patagonia born?Since my very beginnings I've been guiding for several years for major Fly Fishing Outfitters in this area. Some time after, with the acquired experience,...
Below we expose those we consider
are most important, might help you know the region a little more and may make
you choose it as your next fly fishing destination.
1.
San Martín de los Andes. The perfect town progra...
Cacique Valentín SayhuequeLORD OF THE APPLE COUNTRY -THE LAST GREAT CHIEF (1818 - 1903).Son of Chief Chocori an Araucanian Indian and Tehuelche mother. He was the most important Mapuche chief in the area and ...
“Because we dared follow our heart we changed part of history” - Mark Dubois“When I’m not afraid to die I’m free to do anything” - Mark DuboisMy early years in San Martín de los Andes
were uniquely special, ...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Great dry fly action on the Middle Limay. Plus, migratory browns are already in the system. We've had good weather during December. With some windy days, but the fishing remained c...
Bariloche, Neuquen - rio negro, Argentina Luego de unos cuantos dÃas, aprovecho un tiempo libre y les mando una data de finales de Enero pescando el rÃo Limay. Como era una salida de medio dÃa elegimos visitar ...
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Bill Wason with guide Pablo and one of the many fish he caught on the Limay. Great surface action during the entire month of December.
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina A lot of surface action on the Limay during all December. This was the one time I did not cast a dry fly.!!!
Dec - 8 - 2014
Piedra del Aguila, Patagonia, Argentina Fishidries and nymphs on the surface for turbo-charged rainbows like this one is one of the great attractions of the Limay Ri ver at LRL. This is from last season.
When photographer Francisco Bedeschi was about to publish his second fly-fishing book ‘Best Rivers’ (of Patagonia) in 2004 he asked me to write the main introduction and texts on the Collon Cura and Quemquemtreu Rive...
André De Ganay was born in France, where he lived during his childhood. He arrived to Argentina in 1946 after taking part in World War II. He started fishing in Patagonia in 1949 and he still does. He is a prominent bus...
lower zambezi river, Zambia This August a group of friends traveled to the Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia. For many of them it was their first taste of Africa and for the rest of the group, seasoned travelers hopi...
Chum Salmon, Oncorhynchus Keta, are the Rodney Dangerfield of the Salmon family; they get no respect. Chum are also known as dog salmon, calico salmon, chub, fall salmon, and Keta salmon. They are common on bot...
Slovenia Beside the Holy trinity, in Slovenia we have also a different kind of threesome, a fly fishing trinity; three rivers whose landscape they run through, diversity of water flow and smartly couscous fish rank them ...
JUST BACK FROM SEVERAL WEEKS OF CHASING STEELHEAD ON THE SKEENA RIVERS WITH MY USUAL GANG AND GOT SOME NICE IMAGES FOR FUTURE FLY FISHING DREAMS CALENDARS. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE: DAVIDLAMBROUGHTON.COM
As a fishing guide of course I have to offer my place as much as I can but let me be objective about the coming season 2012/13. While the last two seasons had been ruled by a low water condition, due mainly of a poor win...
Paraná river allows you to fulfil the dream of fishing the three most coveted species ; Dorado, Pacú and Pira Pitá. This can scarcely be done in a few places.To talk about Paraná is to talk about an undiscovered worl...
Due to its great underwater movement, the leech-like flies are unbeatable when we go for big fish. If well designed, these are not heavy to cast and don’t tangle, something key when we are casting at our maximum ski...
The concepts of "beautiful" or "good" river quite subjective. Typically, we put in them different meanings, but there are common points such as untouched, beautiful landscape around, comfortable size of the river, conv...
On Monday, a demolition crew will begin removing the Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River just above Bangor, Me. The Veazie is the lowest of the Penobscot dams and closest to the river’s mouth on the Maine coast. It is al...
George River, Nunavik Que, Canada Weather conditions: Rain, average 8°C ;
Water Level: low water medium - high ;
Number of fishermen: 6 ;
Atlantic salmon landed & released: 21 ;
Atlantic salmon hooked & lost: 9...
From high alpine creeks where the finesse of a three-weight is all you need to the major river drainages where throwing giant streamers with seven-weights is the name of the game, Colorado is a great place to experience ...
Slovenia Fishing in crystal clear Alpine river is something special and challenging. Fishes are wild and carefully so you need to be very low profile to catch them, especially if you want some bigger trout too clever it....
On Monday, a demolition crew will begin removing the Veazie Dam on the Penobscot River just above Bangor, Me. The Veazie is the lowest of the Penobscot dams and closest to the river’s mouth on the Maine coast. It is al...
Bistra, Central Slovenia, Slovenia First day with my guests Andy and Will on the river Bistra. We spent a few hours on the river and caught some very nice graylings and brownies ... Not bad for the first day! ;)
Bistr...
Ilirska Bistrica, Primorska region, Slovenia The river Reka is a Slovenian river with a unique name (Reka = River) and another one where an angler can have an early start into the fly fishing season. The ideal destinatio...
FD: How was this project born? Where does the name Kuntur come from?Santiago: My name is Santiago Derendinger and I am the creator of Kuntur Fly Fishing. The name Kuntur means Condor (bird of prey) in the Quechua languag...
Doncaster, United Kingdom After the success of my last Pike on the Fly trip I decided to take a little stroll down to the River Torne. A new River I have never fished before but I thought it must hold at least a few pike...
With only 3 months to go before opening day on the Alagnak Wild River of Bristol Bay, Alaska; ATA Lodge is looking forward to another great season. It is about this time we start to get that itchy feeling that starts ti...
Last December, I had a talk with guide Gianni Juncal in order to organize a fly-fishing trip during late February: one day on the Uruguay River and another one on the mid-section of the Arapey River.When the date approac...