New York, United States Great fishing for lake run browns, lake run domestic rainbows, and both chinook and coho salmon. The rivers are finally getting some rain to bump up the flows a bit, so that should really help get...
Your clients cancel at the midnight hour, the weather forecast is dismal, the river is rising and turning to mud and you find yourself with a day off, so what do you do? Well if you’re Paul Jacobs and Adam Hope you put...
I will speak about the fishing in a few lines but let me tell you something else. After some years of travelling slowly over “The Plateau of the Death” (La Meseta de la Muerte”), the local name of the Strobel field...
Lake Strobel is located in the plateau of Patagonia, in the middle of the Santa Cruz province in Argentina. Its name comes from the missionary Jesuit priest Matías Strobel, who worked in North Patagonia in the mid XVIII...
Lake Strobel, Patagonia, Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
WEEK REPORT
Week: 2
Date: November 7th to 14th 2015
Report: 2
Weather conditions:
⢠Warm and sunny from Saturday with low winds, and with the last two days of
Lake Cowichan, Canada With the winter steelhead coming to a close for the season we still got a few weeks of great fishing with the last of the March run entering the system. We are switching gears to trout fishing with ...
Gobernador Gregores, Santa Cruz, Argentina A mediados de Marzo emprendimos rumbo para la Provincia de Santa Cruz, tuvimos un vuelo tranquilo y en 2:45hs estuvimos en tierra de glaciares!
que aprovechamos para apreciar l...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields?RMB: I have been fly fishing since I was ten years old (I am now 66), my dad taught me. I went to the Univ...
Lago Strobel, Santa Cruz, Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
WEEK REPORT
Week: 1
Date: November 1st to 8 2015
Report: 1
WEATHER CONDITIONS:
â¢Weather was cold with high winds and sunny the first days, and as the week progressed,
Fontana Lake, North Carolina, United States First wild trout trip to the Smokies! Alot of water to fish on Hazel creek, Browns and Rainbows were caught during our outing on the creek. flies used for the the three days we...
Ancient human traces reflected through the tools and art scattered around the basaltic plateau where the Strobel Lake is located get together with exceptional trout fishing, offering to the traveler an image of Patagonia...
Without even thinking about it I was back at the Jurassic Lake plateau. By observing the lava surroundings of the green pond I had a strong feeling that in this basaltic plateau, deeply eroded by the winds, there is some...
Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada With the spring weather here on Vancouver island the fishing is heating up as well and the bugs are starting to hatch. dry fly fishing for rainbow trout cutthroat and browns have b...
Fd: Can you tell us a bit about your beginnings? My passion for fishing was born from an early age, but after changing many techniques, I (Luigi Mautino) devoted myself entirely to fly fishing. Later on, I decided to cre...
Most adult dragonfly imitations have the same defect: the wings that we can see in commercial flies make a terrible sound when cast, and also tangle up the line, making us use thick tippets; and therefore limiting our...
Fd: Can you tell about the beginnings of your outfitting service? I started Keystone Anglers Guide Service as a way of introducing new people to the sport of fly fishing. I feel that sometimes the sport can be a little c...
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...
Summer months are very special for Anglers who enjoy lake fishing. During this time of the year there’s more activity of dragon and damseflies.
Fully aware of this fact, those who already experienced this kind of fi...
Strobel lake and Barrancoso river, Santa Cruz , Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
WEEK REPORT
Week: 1
Date: November 1st to 8 2014
Report: 1
Weather conditions:
⢠Weather was nice in the first days,...
RIO Products, industry-leading manufacturer of fly lines, leaders and tippet material, brings ConnectCore technology to the slowest sinking lake line on the market with the new InTouch Hover.The InTouch Hover line uses u...
Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde is magical. Lake Strobel a natural wonder. Unique in all ways with wily fish too match and winds that test everything. Thank you Martin and Florencia for making it special, and Luciano for...
Santa Cruz, Argentina Tuve la oportunidad de disfrutar, una vez más, de la soberbia calidad de la pesca en Jurassic Lake Lodge y de aprovechar la prodigalidad del recurso para poner a prueba sendas cañas de bambÃ...
Lake George, Colorado, United States It was cold, but fishing was consistent. Caught about 40 fish between the 3 of us. Biggest fish was approaching 20in. Fish were caught on small eggs and annelid patterns trailed by sm...
Yorkshire, United Kingdom I woke up to a typical early Feb morning with frost on the ground and ice on the windscreens of the cars. This was not going to deter me from my planned trip to the local trout lake to try and c...
Gobernador Gregores, Santa Cruz, Argentina Estuvimos a mediados de Marzo en el Lago Strobel, tambien conocido como
Jurassic Lake, tuvimos muy buenas capturas!!
Tuvimos dÃas con bastante frio, y con viento pero est...
Portola, Northern California, United States Another week of the unforgettable 2014 autumn at Lake Davis, there are lots of questions by many including myself, with only a few answers. Fishing is just fair, when in realit...
North Bend, Washington, United States Like the saying goes, "You never forget your first"... I took my kids to a local lake while the wife rested at home. I found small window of opportunity to try out my 6WT and just p...
Bled, Slovenia Flyfishing for a wild fish at Sava Dolinka river and reservoire is for those who are searchers- searchers for a big wild trouts. The river is inhibated with rainbow trouts, brown trouts and lake trouts. F...
This pattern was created by Scott Sanchez. In Scott Sanchez words: “The idea for the Double Bunny came to me almost 20 years ago while on a fishing trip to Belize. John Hanlon and I were trying to catch som...
El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina Strobel Lake Argentina Journal December 8 -15 2018
Friday afternoon I arrived in El Calafate and got a taxi ride to the Design Hotel where I would meet the group. After they arrived we...
Portola, Northern California, United States Autumn bliss at Lake Davis and perfect conditions is one of the most awesome experiences I've ever had since being on this big blue marble. Glassy water with just a ripple at t...
Benton Crossing, California, United States Spring time in the Sierra brings the migration of the big REDS. Cutthroat trout migrate from Crowley Lake up the Upper Owens River to spawn. These fish are abundant in the river...
1) What fishing alternatives does Lago Rosario Lodge offer?Given the location of Lago Rosario Lodge, our area of influence goes fromLos Alerces National Park to the Corcovado River area. Preferably we try not to drive m...
We often get asked by guests planning their first trip to Jurassic Lake Lodge if they should bring a two-hand rod for fishing at Lago Strobel and the Rio Barrancoso. Often, the anglers asking about two-handers (either sw...
Continuing to expand the use of its revolutionary ConnectCore technology, RIO Products, manufacturer of lines, leaders, and tippet, adds two new advanced sub-surface lines to the InTouch lake series.The InTouch CamoLux i...
This attractive streamer takes its name from a French count that lived close to Villa la Angostura in Patagonia, Argentina. For decades, he was a regular fisherman at the Correntoso river´s outlet into Lake Nahuel Huapi...
Originally, bucktails were streamers whose wings were made with white-tail deer hair. Today, bucktails are those streamers whose wings are made with different hairs, and not only deer tail.The first elegant fli...
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...
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 ...
Fd: Where did your love of making watercolors of trout come from?Carol: I moved to Dillon, Montana, a fly fishing paradise, and a friend asked me for fish and landscape paintings for a beautiful little fishing cabin that...
This fly, credited to Art Flick from the early days of fly-fishing in the USA, is probably one of the simplest yet effective trout dry flies, both for rivers and lakes.Gray Fox, Cream, and Dun are some of the...
Five years have passed since my last trip through the Yelcho Lake area. From that moment, the tales of fishing for Tuna and Sierra fish in the sea always resounded in my mind, and it is just 45 km away from the Yelcho Lo...
Sprawling across more than 3,400 square miles of mostly Wyoming territory, Yellowstone National Park houses a rich blend of exploding geysers, an active volcano, its very own Grand Canyon, world-class waters with native ...
Rubber legged flies have always been very popular in Patagonia. Bitch Creek and Rubber Legs patterns were used a lot during the 70´s as well as the Leoni´s Barbarous and Montana flies with antennae and rubber tails....
This year started as it should, great fishing, good people and wild places. After guiding many years with my friends of Loop Adventures I started my own business working sometimes alone and some others with colleagues. G...
The Western North America states and provinces are home to literally tens of thousands of superb trout lakes. Many of these waters are rich in nutrients which allow them to support an abundant and diverse aquatic inverte...
Rabbit strip flies are an effective aid when we go for big emotions while streamer fishing in the fall. The way the strips move in the water and the size they give to flies are very special, all kinds of trout seem to be...
Just when spring is well along the way to the onset of summer, the retamas line the roadways with their bright yellow flowers bringing with them reminiscences of their European origins. They were brought to Patagonia by ...
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,...