Esquel, Esquel, Argentina Laguna Larga, Futaleufú y Yelcho
We hadn't done a great Patagonian trip for some time, so Luis San Miguel organized for us a fishing week during the beginning of December in Laguna Larga, ...
The season has just started in Patagonia and every year we are looking for new places and adventures. I´m a fishing guide so, this is the time were I enjoy myself with friends fishing and scouting places. This year we g...
El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina Brook Trout fishing in South Patagonia
One of the most famous kind of fish for its beauty and the fun of catching them is brook trout, salvelinus fontinalis. Lately Patagonia âc...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina Season Report - The Route of the Spring Creeks
3rd Season went through and some new fishermen along with some regulars came to experience our route of authentic estancias of Pata...
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...
Trevelin, Chubut, Argentina FISHING PROGRAMS
1. âOne Week Programâ 8 DAYS / 7 NIGHTS / 6 FISHING DAYS
During a week you will be experiencing a varied fishing landscape through the Argentinean Patagonia. The ...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina What once was just a talk with my family is becoming a dream come true! "The Route of the Spring Creeks" is already beggining and definetively is a new program for people that visi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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
...
FD: How was this project born? Where does the name Kuntur come from?Santiago: My name is Santiago Derendinger and I am the creator of Kuntur Fly Fishing. The name Kuntur means Condor (bird of prey) in the Quechua languag...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
1) How was Mañihuales Lodge born?Mañihuales Eco Lodge was born from a series of events that began around 2013, when the former owners of a land close to the Mañihuales river, in the middle of the Chilean Patagonia, ...
Rio Manso's surrounding waters are some of the best in Patagonia for outstanding dry fly fishing during the epic dragon fly hatch. Every December, when several days of warm weather trigger the emergence of this tasty me...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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, ...
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...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina An Argentina lover and good spanish speaker, Mr. Lars Ivarsson was joining me and my family for the Route of the spring Creeks. Lars is one of the most relaxed fisherman I know, an...
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....
Mid summer in south Patagonia means warm weather days and together with it, the usual wind pushing bugs into the water, makes terrestrials become a big part of trout’s regular diet.
Despite the normal feeding habits...
El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina Season nº5 says goodbye and here goes a summary by the head guide and manager from this program Juan Ma:
Every season we learn more about our land and waters. This particular seas...
RÃo Gallegos, The Route of the Spring Creeks, Argentina In the making of the Route of the Spring Creeks we started with this report of the first scouting and include also some data and pics from the whole season.
The...
FD: What kind of fishing scenarios can we find on The Route? ROSC is based on fishing small trout rivers. We have the chance of fishing a total of 6 creeks in a range of 150/200km of our location. These creeks have all...
Santa Cruz , Argentina Estancia Laguna Verde lodge
MONTH REPORT
Month: March 2015
Date: March 1st to 31st 2015
Report: Martin Robino (Head guide)
Weather conditions:
⢠March showed a great improvement in weather and
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina Our "Film Week" hosted by the talented film producer and great caster Cesar de la Hoz had arrived. Cesar along Pepe and Aitor Coteirón, all from Spain were visiting my place to ...
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 ...
Argentina First week of the season 2014 started with some english friends. A coupple that I used to to guide in Gallegos river for many years. David Roby is a very talented caster and an unstoppable walker. Sarah is a ch...
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,
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina First 1week of January, as usual, we got the visit of our english friends. David and Sarah. David fishes very well and Sarah is a experienced horse rider.
Pelke was our first sto...
Argentina Anxiously awaiting the new season. 2014 was a special year with great willow worm and minnow hatches in abundance along with our other great hatches. Hopper fishing was the best in years and midge fishing in th...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina Mid December can be one of the best month of fishing The Route of the Spring Creeks. Water level is perfect, flowing in every part of each river. Trouts everywhere, but fishing als...
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 ...
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...