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...
Chaiten, Región de los Lagos, Chile La más increÃble pesca de truchas Fario o marrones de la region sin duda se encuentran En los destinos de pesca que ofrece Chucao Lodge. Truchas de un promedio de 1 a 4 kilos ...
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...
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,...
Comandante Luis Piedra Buena, Santa Cruz , Argentina WEEK REPORT #2 Santa Cruz at Los Plateados Lodge
Karl Otto and his wife Eva arrived at Los Plateados for the beginning of their trip to south Patagonia, in search ...
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...
San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen , Argentina El rio Caleufu en su parte superior se encuentra alto pero normal para la epoca, la pesca esta buena, se capturan mayormente truchas marrones.
Las moscas mas rendidoras fuer...
Junin de los Andes , Neuquen, Argentina Fishing around Junin de los Andes area is just AMAZING! The rivers levels is slowly dropping down and the water temperatures are just perfect and very clear. Right now fishing is e...
Puerto Varas, Región de los Lagos, Chile I have just returned from my 8th visit to Los Ulmos de Ralún Lodge, near Puerto Varas in the Patagonia Region of Chile where I spent a week with 7 friends and it was my best...
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...
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...
Chaiten, Región de los Lagos, Chile One of the best King Salmon Fishing is in Chilean Patagonia.
Kings here are real gigants , with an aberage of 35 and 40 pounds Yelcho River is one of the best destinations world wi...
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...
Trevelin, Chubut, Argentina A PERFECT WEEK
Last week we received the visit of our friends Oscar and Daniel Martinez from Puerto Madryn. They were interested in fishing in Los Alerces National Park, since they couldnâ...
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...
Spoleto, tuscany umbria, Italy My husband and I are fly-fishing partners and owners of an antique fishing tackle business called Angling Artifacts. We reside in and operate our business in Los Angeles so we find it a cha...
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 , Patagonia, Argentina This is january of 2014 after a snow fall on the Andes. Jorge trucco is guiding Phis Olsson bu the Goat island's stretch. Phil catches 20+ great fish during the course of the day...
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
...
Rio Pico, Chubut, Argentina Espectacular pesca de Truchas Fontinalis en un lugar increÃble. Salimos del lodge a eso de las 9 y viajamos unas dos horas hasta llegar a El Engaño, poco antes del Vintter. Almorzamos y ...
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 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
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...
comandante luis piedra buena, Santa Cruz, Argentina Santa Cruz Steelhead - Week #1
On the first week of April we welcomed the first group of Americans of this season at Los Plateados Atlantic Steelhead camp.
Three ...
Punta Arenas, Region de Magallanes y de la Antartica Chilena, Chile Principios de Abril y el RÃo Penitente en Magallanes nos entrega gratas sorpresas. Fue un dÃa muy helado con temperaturas muy bajas y viento const...
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...
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...
Junin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina February means hot temperatures in North Patagonia. We flew there last month looking to visit some of the classic rivers in my dear Argentina. We started off on the Caleufu, walking...
Rio Pico, Chubut, Argentina Espectacular pesca de Truchas Fontinalis en un lugar increÃble. Salimos del lodge a eso de las 9 y viajamos unas dos horas hasta llegar a El Engaño, poco antes del Vintter. Almorzamos y ...
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...
Originally created in New Zealand aiming to imítate a small freshwater shrimp, it has been one of the most popular flies in Argentina over the last four decades.The original pattern had 2 or 3 collars made o...
"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...
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...
“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, ...
About fifteen years ago, a friend of mine came home to order ten dozen of flies. I checked out the list of flies and realized he hadn’t ordered any Soft Hackle. I told him so and he just said, “I don’t like those, ...
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...