After
awakening on June 4, 2011, with the eruption at the Puyehue-Caulle Volcanic
Complex, different organizations immediately started monitoring the area in
order to identify the implications of this phenomenon on th...
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...
San Carlos de Bariloche, Neuquen - Rio Negro, Argentina I went fishing to the famous Limay River outlet (mouth) and stayed there for several hours. It was hard! When there were only 15 minutes of remaining light, I had a...
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...
Bariloche, Neuquen - rio negro, Argentina Luego de unos cuantos dÃas, aprovecho un tiempo libre y les mando una data de finales de Enero pescando el rÃo Limay. Como era una salida de medio dÃa elegimos visitar ...
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...
“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, ...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States Spring Has Sprung in the High Country!
Spring Break is in full swing now at the Wolf Creek Ski Area, but we are still fishing on the Lower San Juan River with both wade and ...
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
...
Trying to book a fishing trip to Patagonia for a Singapore angler, without having a booking agent in between must have been something at least weird and most probably “daring”. Well, not for Ambassador Baharudin…Wh...
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...
Thursday, March 31st 2011
The wind blew all night long. I woke up sweat in the middle of the dark ... I fished it again!It had been already 30 days since I started dreaming about a pristine wild brown: a big brown t...
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,...
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...
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...
It might be his different way of seeing things, his unique perception of existence, his profuse creativity or spellbinding storytelling that is so appealing. When Mel spoke you listened, became a believer and hoped to be...
Fd: What are your roots in fly fishing? Where did you start? I have always loved to fish. My parents are Canadian, and I grew up spending my summers sitting on a dock, casting endlessly for little bass. I learned to fly...
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...
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 ...
Former guide and renowned artist Bob White was awarded "1988 Guide Of The Year" by Fly Rod & Reel magazine. At that time he was guiding for Patagonia Outfitters in Argentina and for Tikchik Narrows Lodge in Alaska. H...
Chos Malal, Neuquen, Argentina Durante el 2021, junto a Teotimo Becu, empezamos a organizar un viaje de pesca para conocer el norte de la provincia de Neuquen, Argentina. Una zona que no esta muy promocionada para la pes...
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...
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...
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...
Puerto Natales, Region de Magallanes y de la Antartica Chilena, Chile Serrano river, whose source is Del Toro lake on the southern boundary of Torres del Paine National Park .This river has about 32 kilometers long, from...
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...
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...
Puerto Aysen, Región de Aysen, Chile The Rio Blanco Base Camp - Remote and Untouched fishing in Central Patagonia!
An impassable canyon above and below the Base Camp interrupts the Rio Blanco. We were one of the fe...
"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 ...
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...
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 ...
Invading
species: DIDYMO
Didymosphenia geminata, commonly known
as didymo or rock
snot, is a species of diatom that grows in warm and shallow water. If it overgrows, it can form large mats on the
bottom of la...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...