Sea Trout Fishing report from “el Fin del Mundo”

BarrettArgentina, Patagonia, Sea trout, tierra del fuego

For the last couple weeks I’ve been touring around Tierra del Fuego. The fishing had been excellent, but  last week it did a complete about face, as unseasonably hot & dry weather has conspired to put down the fish. It often seems like the better the weather is, the worse the fishing is, and vice versa. I suppose you can’t …

Metropolitan Fishing

BarrettArgentina, Dorado

Within 24hrs of landing in Argentina I had already had my first fish to hand, and I hadn’t even left the city limits yet. Having a population of around 13 million in the greater metropolitan area (17th largest in the world), one wouldn’t expect to find quality fishing in the heart of the capital. While anything but a pristine setting, …

The Pebble Pedalers

BarrettFly fishing

I recently received an email from Parker & Seth Berling of Pebble Pedalers, a couple of die-hard fishermen/cyclists who have been biking for the last year and a half from AK to TDF in order to raise awareness against the Bristol Bay Pebble Mine. From their website: “In July of 2009, the Pebble Pedalers, a two-man team of conservation-minded cyclists began …