Rio Grande Fishing Report, Tierra del Fuego March 12 – 17

BarrettArgentina, Patagonia, Sea trout, tierra del fuego

Villa Maria lodge’s Fishing report : Week: 12th to 19th of March: Straight from the horse’s mouth: This week we have welcomed a group composed of 4 anglers, two austrians, Mr Andreas Bachler and Mr Gerard Hoerl, one american and old friend Mr Jim Monguillo and Mr Hugh Chesternon from UK. We had another good week at Villa Maria altough the …

Tierra del fuego sea run brown trout

Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report Rio Grande Tierra del Fuego

BarrettArgentina, Patagonia, Sea trout, tierra del fuego

Fishing the Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego is often an emotional rollercoaster – it can be exciting, frustrating, humbling, and immensely gratifying all at once.  Break off a big fish or have a couple days of poor fishing and one begins to feel despondent and full of self-doubt. Just when things are beginning to look futile, in a blink …

IRIGOYEN RIVER- Week One

AlexanderArgentina, Patagonia, Sea trout, tierra del fuego

F    I    S    H    I    N    G             R    E    P    O    R   T JAN2nd  – JAN9th, 2010 O V E R A L L   C O N D I T I O N S : We were fortunate to arrive when the water already dropped its level. The water was very high and muddy most of December.  The air temperature …

More Dorado Fishing from Corrientes

BarrettArgentina, Dorado

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 order to document what issues …

Fishing Report Villa Maria Rio Grande Tierra del Fuego

BarrettArgentina, Patagonia, Sea trout, tierra del fuego

After very high water that rendered the Rio Grande completely unfishable, the river has come back into shape beautifully and the fishing has been incredible. For the next week our so I’ll be plying it’s coveted waters at Villa Maria Lodge after a two year hiatus, and it looks like my timing couldn’t have been better! Even having guided on …