NORTHERN ARGENTINA:
The Road to El Dorado Last light, last cast, and last chance to find one of the big girls that we came here for. It’s the second to last day of a week-long, two-lodge, golden dorado program with Nervous Waters in northern Argentina. A country known more for Patagonia and trout fishing than for the native dorado that are abundant in the north. Here, they’re just known as the ‘national fish’. An icon in this country along the lines of Maradona or Evita; known to all and chased by local fishermen with the same fervor of any bass angler back home. We’ve found plenty of them here in “los esteros Ibera” (the Ibera Marshlands) to begin the week, but have set out for the Parana river looking for something of a different caliber. By NICK TORRES Photos by TRAVIS BRADFORD, NICK TORRES and JAY JOHNSON
