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...
San Martin de los Andes, Nuequen, Argentina Nathalie with a beautiful 26" brown trout caught on the dry fly, in the difficult and technical waters of the Filo Hua hum river. Was a windy mornig!
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...
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...
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...
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
Lodge
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...
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, 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....
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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...
Traful River Valley, Neuquen , Argentina Landlocked Salmon of 30" caught by Hernan Tiscornia in the Nelly Blood pool of the Traful River, at Estancia Arroyo Verde during the afternoon.
Strobel lake and Barrancoso River, Santa Cruz, Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
WEEK REPORT
Week: 4
Date: November 22 to 29 2014
Report: Martin Robino (head guide)
Weather conditions:
⢠Water condi...
RÃo Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina We landed 60 fish for the week. 8 fish over 15 pounds. The biggest was an 18,5 pounder female.
Fishing is improving a little every day. The river is getting full of fresh fis...
comandante luis piedra buena, Santa Cruz, Argentina Season Report and Highlights from our second season in Santa Cruz river at Los Plateados Lodge
Season started with an unusual phenomenon, the glaciers in the headwat...
Junin de los Andes , Neuquen , Argentina We floated the ChimehuÃn River from its junction with the Quilquihue River until it pour its waters into the Collon Cura River.
We reach the ChimehuÃn floating down through...
comandante luis piedra buena, Santa Cruz, Argentina 5 MUST TIPS ON: Steelheading the Santa Cruz river (Argentina).
1) Size and color of the water
2) Casting distance and Tackle
3) Flies
4) Fishing technique
5) Ha...
Arroy Verde, Neuquen , Argentina Traful river on the first week of the 2013 season. The river depends greatly on quantity of water and temperature in order to carry the optimal number of fish. This is why the beginning o...
Patagonia, Argentina Fished with Lucas and Mark owners of Traful River Outfitters out of San Martin de Los Andes in Argentina. This was my second trip and booked for 2016 as well! Cannot recommend this outfit enough! Onl...
San MartÃn de los Andes, JunÃn de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina Under my humble point of view, fall season is an excellent time for fly fishing around San MartÃn and JunÃn de los Andes area in Patagonia Argen...
RÃo Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina We landed 122 fish for the week. 20 fish over 15 pounds. The biggest was a 20.5 pound male.
Fishing improved this week. The river is getting full of fresh fish.
The river is...
In our visit to the Zambezi River searching for tiger fish the most effective flies were Clouser Minnow-like streamers. In the Lower Zambezi, in Zambia, where we fished, there are many fishing eagles that watch the ri...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina WEEK REPORT #1
It was more than a decade ago when we started thinking about the idea of building an operation in the Santa Cruz river. There were some attempts on the way but it w...
Santa Cruz , Argentina We set a trip for the second weekend of May to check on the fishing in the lower mid section of the Santa Cruz river, down at Estancia Los Plateados, at Tres Amigos Outfitters operation.
During Ma...
Traful River Valley, Patagonia, Argentina This is a closeup pic of a landlocked Atlantic salmon caught by Kathy Beck on the Traful in March of 2010 at dusk.
Santa Cruz , Argentina SANTA CRUZ STEELHEAD UNRIDDLED
*Notes on how to prepare for the most unique river in Patagonia, by Claudio Martin.
The weather during fall is usually calm with a lack ...