Trinidad and Tobago

AlexanderFly fishing

August is the month when people from all over the globe gather in Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate the biggest Tarpon  tournament in Central America, the Trinidad Tarpon Thunder. This year I had the pleasure to be invited by a very good friend, Roger Ames, he is actually living in England but he was born in T and T making inevitable …

TSIMANE SCOUTING -WINTER DORADOS

AlexanderArgentina, Dorado

Just an update. We’ve been in the Amazon rainforest of Bolivia a few weeks ago, scouting and checking the fishing conditions before our first season starts up in August. The Secure River is a pristine clear water stream, where the freshwater dorado lives in the Amazon basin. It’s a unique blend of this extremely powerful species and Amazon species like …

Brown Trout LIMAY RIVER II

AlexanderArgentina, brown trout, Patagonia

Days after coming back  from my fishing trip in the northern provinces of Argentina -Dorados in the cold I and II- I found myself  talking with my very good friend Marcelo Widmann from Bariloche about how where the last days of the season from his point of view. Usually at the end of the season,  fisherman concentrate their energies on one of the best Brown Trout rivers …

Dorados in the cold II – Upper Parana river

AlexanderArgentina, Dorado

After two days fishing at La Zona, I took a 10 hour bus ride to Corrientes, and then jumped into a taxi to reach a little town further north. There, I met two good friends who are expert guides in the Parana river, Peto and Mariano. Almost immediately after the arrival they showed me a photo of a beautiful catfish that …

Dorados in the cold.

AlexanderArgentina, Dorado

I was really looking forward to do this trip. My plan was to go to the lodge called La Zona in the city of Concordia to fish the last days of the season, and after that, travel north to fish the upper Parana River in Corrientes province. The weather was balmy and expert Dorado fisherman say that fishing for them …

Patagonia Fishing Trip

AlexanderPatagonia

A group of guides (ourselves included) from Patagonia spend several days fishing some of the best corners in Patagonia and scouting new locations. Starting in northern patagonia near the town of Bariloche, we worked south, covering some 3000km of rough patagonia road conditions in search of big trout. The conditions were unpredictable some of the time, but mostly we enjoyed …