Bonefish and Tarpon in Los Roques, VenezuelaAfter several weeks of planning, I finally departed to the famous National Park Los Roques in Venezuela.Getting to Los Roques from Caracas is very easy, two or three companies ...
A Special Bamboo Rod Story:
An interesting episode of my fly fishing life is the unexpected story of
a bamboo rod and how it all came about thanks to serendipity.
Late in 2003 I visited my friend Marcelo Calv...
Jim Levison has been photographing the outdoors for the past twenty years. For the last eleven years Jim has been guiding saltwater fly anglers off the fabled waters of Montauk Point, New York, in search of striped bass,...
What I didn't write about was the four big fish earlier in the week that didn't end up on the end of my line. The one that spooked as soon as I raised my rod, the huge one I didn't see until I almost stepped on it, the o...
Fd: How did the idea of producing fly-fishing videos come up? CF: Confluence is a production company that the two of us (Chris Patterson and Jim Klug) started in 2007. Since that time, we’ve done a number of full-len...
Después de
varios años explorando, descubriendo y sacando conclusiones, decidimos operar
con nuestra propia empresa de Guías en un río colonizado por el gran King Salmon.
Por la poderosa
capacidad de supervivencia,...
1) Que nos pueden contar de El Roble Lodge?Es un típico establecimiento patagónico, así como todas las estancias de nuestra provincia, nuestra casa está construida con madera y chapa, los materiales ideales para sop...
Longitud: 246 km.Superficie de cuenca: 6929 km cuadrados.Caudal medio: 300 m/s.El Rio Futaleufú, en mapudungun llamado Rio Grande, es un rio
binacional que fluye desde sus inicios en los Andes por el lado
argentino al...
One of the most unknow fishing in Patagonia is the egg pattern fishing where the number of King Salmon that enters to the rivers of Chile make the difference.Trout love to eat Salmon eggs they give a lot of energy to pas...
Por excelencia en la
Patagonia argentina y, en menor medida, en otras regiones de nuestro país,
podemos gozar de diferentes ambientes para la pesca de salmónidos a lo largo de
toda su extensión, ríos de montaña, lag...
Nuevamente gracias al esfuerzo de Noel Pollak y la familia de Poló Bardin podemos disfrutar del libro PIRAYÚ que nos sumerge desde la primera página en un mundo que todos hemos visitado pero conocemos solo superficial...
CATCH AND
RELEASE: HOW IT CAME TO BEToday, it is
hard to imagine a quality fishery where fly fishers do not return their catch to the water
alive. This is the standard on the rivers in Patagonia. Releasing their fish is
...
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...
Cada vez son más los entusiastas de la pesca deportiva que viajan a américa del sur en búsqueda de el Pavón del Amazonas. La explosiva entrada de un Pavón en la superficie es una de las experiencias más emocionante...
Since “Dorado” is the Spanish word for gold, it seems rather
ironic that this fish has been given the same name twice. When we call it a Golden Dorado, we are
really calling it ”Golden Gold”.
Mayb...
Fd: What can you tell us about your new book: Wild Trout? Wild Trout is a bilingual (English and Spanish) book that covers the basic aspects of the biology of wild trout in Patagonia. Its 300 pages show unique photos acc...
"With the authorization of Nahuel Huapi National Park´s
Authorities, the Tourism Office and the Wildlife Guard of Neuquén´s Province,
we were able to do a survey in different parts of the area affected by the ash.
It ...
The EXPO FLY FISHING PATAGONIA (November 30 – December 1 this year) takes place in San Martín de los Andes, North Patagonia in Argentina, a small city located in the middle of some of the best trout fishing waters in...
“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, ...
El señor Blake ve a estar tres meses con este servidor aprendiendo dos cosas a pescar los Sabalos (tarpon) y a hablar español .Durante su estadia conostros el estaremos enseñando el arte de la pesca del sabalo. El din...
Fishing with my father was sacred, by that I mean, my sisters were not allowed to come. It was ours and I needed that. My father used flies tied in Spain as we fished in upstate New York, our rods, reels, and creels had ...
This is a tribute to my friend Billy Pate who died on April 19 at the age of 81. The name Billy Pate is linked with incredible, mind blowing, fly fishing records, as well as with the renowned Billy Pate Fly Reels made b...
Fd: How did fly fishing and photography get together in your life? Nick: I grew up fly fishing from a very young age. My mother is the major angler in my family and there hasn’t been a day in my life that I’ve had w...
Noah Rosenthal, Los Angeles, CAIt was Tuesday September 2nd and I was in the middle of the last shooting day of the feature filmBand of Robbers (a modern day telling of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn as adults) when the email ...
I wanted to post this article written by former guide and renowned artist Bob White. Bob was the first American guide to guide for Patagonia Outfitters. He first came down in 1986 and guided in Patagonia many seasons. Hi...
Among the species that swim in Argentinean waters, golden dorado is by far my favorite. His whimsical humor, beauty and a growing misunderstanding about his behavior are very appealing. It is a fish able to trigger a fee...
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...
Fd: How did fly fishing and photography get together for you? MJ: Growing up in Texas, I had a rod in hand as a child fishing for bass in local ponds and lakes. This grew into an obsession and throughout my teenage year...
If you had asked me, when I was my son’s age, what I wanted to be doing when I was 62 years old, I would have laughed at you. First, because I’d never be that old. Then, I would have described to you, more or less, e...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields? Bob: I’m probably a bit older than most of the other members of Fly dreamers, certainly older than the...
Nature lover, true fly fisherman and an exquisite photographer with a special sensitivity, he shows his three passions in his fantastic fly fishing images that have gone around the world. He has collaborated with Nationa...
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...
Joe Brooks was a pioneer in modern fly fishing. He fished faraway places from the 40s to his death in 1972. He wrote about them through a myriad of articles and 10 books. Through his writing he opened up the world and po...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
A few days fishing in the north of the Neuquén province, in Argentina, made us realize that we can still dream about Patagonia and other sites that have not yet lost the magic that enchanted Darwin in his trips.We were ...
“There are many ghosts at the Boca.” - Jorge TruccoMy first season in Argentina passed as quickly as a waking dream. As the golden days of March fell away, subtle hints of summer’s end became increasingly clear. T...
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...
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...