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...
In all of the Patagonian rivers in Argentina and Chile, catfish are more abundant than we think. The “Bagre Torrente” of Trichomycteridae family especially, can often be seen if you look closely around the banks, und...
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...
Bombers and their relatives, Buck Bugs, are flies from New Brunswick, born in the famous Miramichi River. These deer hair flies have then found a place in remote distant waters such as those in cold Russia, Pacific steel...
Gray Ghost is a great name for a fly. A name that may bring back memories of salmon and brook trout to many fishermen, and also of the green waters of the Curruhué River or the blue ones of the Traful in the distant ...
Most fishermen usually associate fly fishing to small artificial lures. This is true if you focus on trout species, fish that feed on nymphs and adult insects or even on smaller fish. Few anglers dare to experiment with ...
In addition to the remarkable amounts of achievements in sea fishing, Billy Pate frequently visited the waters of Patagonia and in particular the Chimehuín river in search of a world record brown trout. During his time ...
Neozelandesa en su origen, la Matuka fue y sigue siendo uno de los streamers más utilizados en la Patagonia Argentina, no solo por aquellos que buscan las grandes arco iris en noviembre como las enormes marrones de fin ...
For many years mayflies have been taken for hexs, but these are not related, they only have similar sizes in the adult stage. Chiloporter nymphs are skilled swimmers that live close to the shore in fast waters of stre...
Stonefly nymph imitations are very effective in fast water rivers with big rocks on the bottom. The impressionistic ones with soft materials that move attractively underwater with the slightest currents are especially...
Los pescadores de ninfas europeos están muy familiarizados con un tipo de ninfa denominado Czech Nymph, creada por aficionados polacos. Sus modelos se distinguen por un abdomen trenzado y modificado por pescadores checo...
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...
Uno de los platos mas suculentos que se les pueden presentar a las truchas de la Patagonia es el Sammastacus o langosta del río, que junto con la pancora y los scuds comprenden los tres crustáceos que habitan esas agu...
Tying artificial nymph gills is usually a problem. This is why I bring you this simple way to do it, a technique I saw some time ago and applied to many of my nymphs. It’s ideal for small nymphs, to achieve clear an...
When beginning to fly fish, one wonders if a big fish might be caught using such small fly…Created by George Griffith, one of the founders of Trout Unlimited, this pattern imitates midges, midge emergers, m...
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...
There was a time when Marabou Muddlers were the flies to catch big trout. I still remember some strikes at the bend of the Chimehuin River’s La Boca (river inlet) in Patagonia with some black Marabou Muddlers almost at...
Most big browns from Patagonia owe their size to a rich diet based on a type of crayfish called pancora. There are big quantities of them in some rivers, this is why we must make good imitations if we want to catch these...
This sculpin model presented in the International Tackle Dealer Show of 2012 in Reno, Nevada, is really interesting when it comes to fishing for trout, golden dorado, wolf fish and other fish.I have tied them in ma...
Foam is now available in variety of different forms and is here with us to stay replacing many materials such as the bodies of flies usually tied with dear hair as it is far more durable. Also with foam it is much easier...
The Popsicle was created by George Cook in the 80’s. It belongs to a group of patterns he created called the Alaskabou Series. Among this group are the Volcano and the Blue Moon. These are flies that have been designed...
Payoff, Tequila Sunrise, Volcano, Blue Moon, Showgirl, Green Alaskabou, Pixies Revenge y Popsicle son moscas que han sido diseñadas con un mismo sistema de atado, idéntica silueta y son catalogadas para la pesca de sal...
There is no doubt that classic streamers and bucktails fish well. Nevertheless, if we apply the same care and dedication that we do with when tying dries and nymphs in its different stages, to imitate smaller fish perfec...
Por su gran movimiento en el agua, las moscas tipo leech son infalibles cuando buscamos algo grande. Si están bien diseñadas, no son pesadas al castear y no se enredan, algo esencial cuando lanzamos larg...
Durante los últimos cuarenta años he tenido la oportunidad de pescar con mosca infinidad de lugares en la patagonia y otros países, atando y probando las mas variadas moscas.
Las moscas simples como esta Malleo Swim...
Originalmente, el término bucktail se aplicaba a los streamers que tenían el ala hecha con cola de ciervo whitetail o ciervo de cola blanca americano. Hoy, cuando hablamos de bucktails, nos referimos a streamers hechos...
In classic Patagonia rivers such as the Aluminé and Chimehuín one can no longer see in the afternoon so many adult stoneflies like there were a decade ago, but their imitations still produce violent surface strikes,...
Atar branquias en una ninfa artificial suele ser problemático. Por esa razón me pareció interesante mostrarles una forma sencilla de lograrlas, con una técnica que vi hace tiempo y he aplicado a muchas de mis ninf...
I never liked that much the Matukas made with hen feathers, maybe because these feathers wrinkle in the boxes and lose its shape a bit, something that is terrible for a perfectionist person. Still, once at Patagonia, ...
El nombre Plecoptera (del griego, plekein: doblar, doblado; pteron: ala) hace referencia al plegamiento en forma de abanico que se observa en estado de reposo en el ala posterior de estos insectos. Los p...
Los bombers – y sus primos cercanos, los Buck Bugs - son moscas nativas de New Brunswick, nacidas y refinadas en las orillas del famoso río Miramichi. A partir de allí, estas moscas con cuerpo de pelo de ciervo ha...
My romance with tube flies began over 32 years ago. The construction of Kautapen lodge was being finished and I was lucky to guide the first groups of anglers together with Rolland Holmberg, a known Swedish guide with...
Originally from New Zealand, the Matuka is still one of the most popular streamers in Patagonia. Not only used by fly fishermen that go after the big rainbows in november (early season) but also by those that chase the h...
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....
Muchas moscas concebidas para el agua salada han dado excelentes resultados en agua dulce. Podemos citar como ejemplos a la Clouser Minnow, muy recomendada para truchas (de igual silueta que la Blonde, tan utilizada en n...
Por largos años, los mayflies del género chiloporter han sido confundidos con hexagénidos y, ciertamente, no tienen nada que ver con ellos, salvo su tamaño similar en el aspecto del adulto. Las ninfas de chiloport...
Cuando los pescadores hablan de pesca con mosca, suelen asociarla con artificiales de pequeñas dimensiones. Y esto es cierto, ya que el objetivo por lo general se centra en la pesca de salmónidos, cuya alimentación se...
Cuando uno comienza a pescar con mosca, la elección del artificial a usar al momento de decidir es un tanto complicada, ya que uno no sabe que ni porque poner una u otra mosca y solo puede guiarse por las recomendacione...
En todos los ríos patagónicos los bagres son mas abundantes de lo que creemos, sobre todo los bagres de torrente de la familia Trichomycteridae cuyas sinuosas y ágiles siluetas podemos ver con facilidad si investigamo...
About twenty years ago, I traveled with a friend to Junín de los Andes in the month of January and had some great fishing moments, but one of them really stuck in my mind. We got to the Aluminé river late and decided t...
In January of 2005 I was surprised when I saw a young american angler at the Manzano pool in the Chimehuín River (Patagonia). Not only by the way in which he casted and mended the line, but also because he caught five r...
Por una cuestión de que me gusta pescar lo mas tranquilo posible, siempre he tratado de evitar los viajes a la Patagonia en los meses de enero y febrero. El ingreso de las grandes marrones a los ríos, el cambio en la c...