Stories from the water, in Patagonia and beyond. What actually happened out there, and what it teaches when there is something worth taking from it.
How many days for a fly fishing trip to Patagonia?
It is the first question people ask me, before flies, before rods. Here is an honest answer, built on the trips I put together in northern Neuquén year…
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Gear for the giant rainbows of Jurassic Lake
On the shores of Lago Strobel, the question is not whether you will hook a big fish. It is whether your gear will hold when it happens. The…
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Wild Patagonia fly fishing: David’s rematch
There are rivers in Patagonia nobody knows. No lodge, no brochure, no Instagram picture. Just you, cold water coming down from the Cordillera, wild trout almost nobody has…
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Gear: what you really need to fly fish for golden dorado
You do not fish for dorado the way you fish for trout, and you do not pack the same bag either. It is the first thing I tell…
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Patagonia Trashumante: the team that makes the trip
A fishing trip is more than a river and some fish. First of all it is a team. Mine, in Argentine Patagonia, is called Patagonia Trashumante, and if…
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The dorado forgives nothing: a fishing trip with friends in northern Argentina
The water had turned since morning, brown, heavy, the kind that makes even guides who have known the river for twenty years start doubting. Kévin and Félix had…
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Fly fishing Patagonia: a northern Neuquén nobody fishes
There are days on these rivers of northern Neuquén when we meet nobody at all between sunrise and sunset, apart from our own small team. Not one other…
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Gear: what you really need to fly fish Patagonia
It is the question that turns up in nearly every message before a departure: what goes in the bag? After years of fishing the rivers of northern Argentine…
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