After our stay at most pleasant Cantarias Lodge, we hopped a plane and headed further south to the Patagonia Baker Lodge on Rio Baker. This river drains the massive Lago (lake) General Carrera—second largest in Chile. The mountain backdrop–as seen in early morning mist, is stunning against the expanse of the river. The lodge is […]
Today was epic. Epic because the weather was outstanding. Cold in the morning but warming nicely to shirt-sleeve weather by mid morning. Epic because we got up at 4am to hit the road at 5 with another angler, Juan Carlos, headed for big salmon country—the River Petrohue, near the Mt. Osorno volcano. We quickly loaded […]
Day two opened with great anticipation. We were headed to Rio Rahue for giant browns and coho salmon. That turned to quick disappointment when we discovered the water up about 2 feet and very dirty—an extremely rare event in this river. So we ran a quick float just to see the country and headed back […]
I arrived in Chile on Saturday, March 29 and met my friends, Benito and Pablo Perez and Exequiel Bustos at the Santiago airport. That afternoon we flew south to Osorno and met Javier Dietz who owns and operates the Cantarias Lodge, named after the monster beetle that is great food for very large trout. We […]
King salmon were first introduced into Chilean waters in 1886, but the plant did not take. A single stocking of juvenile fish in Rio Santa Cruz about 1930 produced a viable wild population of spawning kings. Then in the mid 1970s, the fish were introduced in fish farms along the coast of the Chilean Patagonia. […]
I told Jason that I was tying flies for a trip to Chile in late March and early April to offer some clinics and spend some time fishing. He very graciously sent me a JB1608 Richard Wheatley Fly box. It’s a JB box because it bears a laser engraved copy of a pen and ink […]
While I was in Argentina, my friend,Chuck Furimsky, owner and operator of “The Fly Fishing Shows” was fishing just across the border in Chile. The weather was good for Chuck, and he had good fishing, too. Chile is the wet side of the Andes, and there are more trees and more wet days than on […]