Faraway Fly Fishing

Eighty years old Hardy Perfect reel used to catch a trophy brown trout, just amazing!

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If you haven’t seen it yet, check out The Fly Fish Journal. Judging from the first two issues, it’s quite possibly the best flyfishing publication available today. In the new issue, Kirk Deeter writes a great article about brown trout and the essence of the Rio Irigoyen:

The Fly Fish Journal

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Troubling news: the invasive algae known as Didymo has been found in the Rio Espolon and Rio Futaleufú in Chile.
“USGS FORT ecologist Sarah Spaulding confirmed the identification of the diatom Didymosphenia geminata (“Didymo”) as forming extensive blooms in Chilean rivers near Esquel, Argentina.
The bloom was reported on Rio Espolon and [...]

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Without any doubt Limay medio river is a great destiny for migratory brown trout. The season already close on the upper Limay river where we usually fish for this monsters, now the target was the Limay medio, which holds good number of large migratory brown trout. Fishing in this part of the Limay depends on the water [...]

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Here’s a picture of Rodrigo Amadeo battling an Atlantic Steelhead on the Santa Cruz river. FYI: two dams are now in the beginning stages of construction, so this incredibly unique river & run of fish will likely be short-lived. It’s an economic boom for the locals who truly need it, however, so I can’t sit [...]

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Here’s some pics from my last day on the Limay last month. Thanks to Nico, Alex, Mariano and Rodrigo for making it a great one. I can’t think of anywhere in the world that has such quality, trophy-trout fishing so close to a metropolitan center. If only we could be so lucky here in the [...]

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Evan Jones fishing the Malleo with Lanin in the background

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Few days before the season ends in Argentina we decided to go for a short adventure to southern Chile, where the Andes mountains meets the Pacific ocean. The weather wasn’t that good, rainy most of the days. Anyway, we couldn’t return without catching at least one Chilean trout! We visited the  Petrohue river just for [...]

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Evan Jones riding the biggest sea trout in the world. Hold on Buddy!

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