BEHIND THE SCENES IN PATAGONIA

Guide Reports from a Multi-Lodge Journey through Chile’s Best Waters

For those who love to fish, really fish, Martín Pescador is your one-stop spot for some of the best fly fishing in the world. Why? Well, a lot of it has to do with the fact that it actually isn’t one stop—it’s two. The week-long sequence takes anglers from Rio Yelcho Lodge to Rio Rosselot Lodge, accessing two separate watersheds and literally countless fisheries—a rare experience captured here by the unabridged trip reports of a guide team who lives it day in and day out.

Notes From The Field

We motored up to the canyon above the put-in, landing six or so fish, one nice brown trout…all on black and copper sparkle minnows. The rest of the day we switched back and forth from dry dropping to stripping/swinging streamers. Black Bou Face and sparkle minnows were our hot flies for the day. Solid day across the board. Lots of big fish were moved.

Notes From The Field

Dry/Dropper action was consistent all through the day. With a large number of dry fly eats. Spotted a number of large black stoneflies on water. Large black Chubby Chernobl was the best dry fly. Fished a small streamer for a little while and got a large brown to the net. But Dry/Dropper was more consistent. Guests had a great time and really enjoyed the float.

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Real nice, fish were caught, good times were had. We tossed Chubbies into the water with a pat’s rubber legs attached as a dropper and out came Brown and Rainbow Trout. Super neat.

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Started the day out on Lago Rosselot before jetting up the lower fig. The scum line was pretty blown out with high winds but we caught a couple of 16-20” bows. Then jetted up the miracle mile of the lower fig and the fishing started out pretty good. Pretty much right off the bat, we caught an 18” fat brown on a fat Albert and then 10 minutes later we caught a 23” brown on a mop turd. We fished hard through the fig and we caught 20 or so in there. A couple of decent ones after the beginning on dry, dropper and sparkle minnow. Then jetted over to Rio Rosselot to end the day and caught a couple of nice ones.

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