Chilean Patagonia's Estancia del Zorro is in the Coyhaique Alto mountain range on the Chilean-Argentine border, 23 miles from Coyhaique, Chile. The 15,000 acre Estancia rests in the habitat of the red fox (zorro), the namesake of the Estancia. An abundance of condors, ragles, a myriad of other birds, and unexplored brown trout entice flyfishers and bird watchers to follow the trail of the red fox.
You and a knoledgeable, patient guide explore the holls, canyons, forests, mountains, pampas, and waters of the Estancia. Your guide helps you flyfish for brown trout on two rivers and on a 15 mile spring creek with browns up to an astonishing 12 pounds, all within the Estancia's private boundaries.
click on photos for a larger viewGuest stay at the Estancia del Zorro in Chile to fish and explo View more...re private waters in both Chile and Argentina on this trip. We combine fishing for resident brown trout on the Estancia del Zorro with fishing for rainbows on an Argentine Estancia.
After breakfast, you alternate fishing locations during your stay. You fish one day in Chile. The next day you cross the border into Argentina With your bilingual guide. a Scenic 35-minute drive across the Chilean-Argentine border traverses the Argentine pampas to the river. On the road to the river, you pass small lagunas - habitat for swans, shorebirds, and pink flamingos.
Each of our guides has four or more years experience fishing and exploring these waters. They are both native Chilean and American. Our equipment includes rubber rafts with high-back seat, and good vehicles with trailers to reach all the waters we fish.
Streams and fishing in this area within the bounderies of the click on photos for a larger viewEstancia or 45 minutes from it, most of it is wading through the rivers and spring creeks. Many of the streams have seldom, if ever, been fished; some have been discovered only recently. The streams offer diverse fishing; incredible, exciting dry fly action; and, challenging sight fishing in pristine, clean waters were fish could go up to 32 inches. From Zorro you can also float the legendary Simpson River, that is an hour drive from the Lodge.
c View more...lick on photos for a larger viewOn your way to nearby rivers and lakes, you may encounter local huasos or ranchers driving their cattle or sheep along the roads or into the hills. You might think you are lost in the wild west of days gone.
Estancia el zorro creek, Coyhaique, Región de Aysen, Chile
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