Faraway Fly Fishing

Golden Dorado from Yahape on the upper Parana River. To learn more see: Yahape Lodge

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Our Guide buddy Pinti kindly sent us some more Golden Dorado, Pacu and Pira Pita pics from last week. The upper Parana in northern Argentina along the Paraguayan border is hands down my favorite place to fish for Dorado, and it’s easy to see why:

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Being the 8th largest country in the world, Argentina offers an incredible diversity of angling options. This is in part what makes deciding where to fish in a limited amount of time such a difficult proposition. Imagine coming to the US for the first time & only having 3 weeks to experience the best of [...]

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Here’s some Dorado & Pira Pita photos from last week, courtesy of our guide friend in Corrientes, Pinti. Muy picante!

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A couple weeks ago I made a repeat trip up to the upper Rio Parana (which happens to have the best dorado fishing in Argentina imho) with Tom McMurray & Brandon White from Marine Ventures Foundation, a non-profit fisheries conservation foundation.  They were interested in investigating Argentina’s native fish species, namely the golden dorado, in [...]

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Last couple pics:

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I recently had the privilege of hosting a trip to the upper Rio Parana for 6 days of golden dorado, pira pita and pacu fishing. The river was extremely high due to heavy rains in Brazil, but that didn’t seem to deter the dorado from displaying their characteristic acrobatics. Trying to capture jumps on camera [...]

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