On Tuesday, April 16, we organized at 9 am and got underway to the section of the Ager River managed by Roman Mosier. Roman is a superb fly fisher and fly tyer who taught schools with the late Hans Gebetsroither, who develop the Elliptical casting style in the 1930s. The water in the river is […]
Our friend, Theo Bakelaar, was in Africa recently, fishing for trout, when he encountered a very unusual and very fierce strain of browns. He was only able to land the smaller ones, and one look at them shows why. The bigger of these Croc-A-Browns will take a full dress Gnu or Zebra imitation very strongly. […]
This spring has been a difficult one for the steelhead fishers here in Wisconsin. Too much water. Cold and ugly weather is no problem, but rivers that are ripping at 5000 cfs when they normally flow around 200 cfs are just too much of a challenge. Well, one of our favorite rivers took a brief […]
I had a very nice email from Humberto Zilocchi, one of the participants in the clinic that i offered on Saturday, March 16, through the Mendoza Fly Shop. He noted that he and others in his acquaintance regularly fish for brookies in the area around Cordoba in central Argentina. His site features some very nice […]
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 […]
Saturday, March 16, started with a short horseback ride for Exequiel and me, as we took turns riding to the river directly behind the cottages where we were staying. Pablo went on ahead with Benito, and when Exeqiuel and I arrived, Pablo was fighting a big fish. It turned out to be a 23 inch […]
A new world record is in the offing for the brown trout. Just recently a 42 pound 1 ounce monster was hauled out of the waters of New Zealand just downstream from a salmon farm. The pig brown had been chowing down on salmon food and put on more than a few pounds. The current […]
On Friday, March 15, we fished the bigger waters of the Codihue in the canyon downstream from Georges and Nicole’s home. The morning was overcast and cold. I wore a light jacket with my rain jacket over it to stay warm. My hands got cold, but little matter. Little matter because immediately Exequiel took a […]
My friend, Theo Bakelaar saw my notes on Argentina and the photos of me playing gaucho. He sent me a picture of a Holland gaucho with an average sized fish that they catch. Note, this fish was taken on a gold bead head fly–what else?
On Wednesday, March 13, we drove through the day from Las Lenas to the 30,000 acre “El Halcon” estancia, owned by Georges and Nicole Andrieu, and situated in the Neuquen region of Patagonia. The estancia controls over 25 miles of the Rio Corihue, including its headwater lakes. On the way, we dropped Polo off in […]