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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the fourth issue of 2011 of our What’s New With Us Newsletter. We will cover a wide range of topics related to fly fishing, including tips, lodge reports, great videos and photos, as well as the latest company news. Enjoy!

The Nervous Waters Staff
 
 
 
AFTER THE HURRICANE
 
BREAKING RECORDS
 
DID YOU KNOW?
 
SPRING BREAK
COMING TO PIRÁ
 
 
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AFTER THE HURRICANE
ABACO LODGE
Well, seems like not even a Hurricane category 3 will stop Abaco Lodge from having another great season. After the eye of Hurricane Irene hit Abaco a few weeks ago, we immediately returned to see what was left of our lodge. + info
 
BREAKING RECORDS
TIERRA DEL FUEGO
In the early years, the record-seeking anglers came. They brought light tippets, and they broke tippet class records each year. Then when the odds became tougher and tougher, it seemed the record seekers faded away. + info
 
     
DID YOU KNOW?
FUTA LODGE
Did you know that with only 6 people you could have Futa Lodge exclusively for your group. With guided fishing and tons of activities for your non-angling group members, Futa Lodge is truly a secluded paradise.
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SPRING BREAK COMING TO PIRÁ
PIRA LODGE

The beginning of September welcomes the first signs of spring to these latitudes. The days begin to grow longer every day. Although it is too early for the bloom, you can feel in your bones that the Ibera Marshlands have come back to life.
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AFTER THE HURRICANE
Abaco Lodge
 

Well, seems like not even a Hurricane category 3 will stop Abaco Lodge from having another great season. After the eye of Hurricane Irene hit Abaco a few weeks ago, we immediately returned to see what was left of our lodge.

As it’s a waterfront lodge, situated directly on the Marls, we were expecting the worst but, to our surprise, the lodge had suffered no structural damage at all! We will need to work hard when it comes to gardening and some minor repairs will be necessary to restore the lodge to its former glory, but luckily we have plenty of time and we will have it as new by the time the first groups of anglers arrive this fall.

And to those who have not booked yet, we have put together a fantastic deal for the last dates available for the fall:

Special offer is for free round-trip air from Miami to Marsh Harbor. (airport just 10 minutes from The Lodge).

 
  Last Available Dates  
  Oct 8-15 (7 nights/6 days) 4 spots remaining
  Nov 5-12 (7 nights/6 days) 4 spots remaining
  Dec 2-7 (5 nights/4 days) 6 spots remaining
 

Grab your free airfare dates while they last!

 
For more information about Abaco Lodge, click here.
 
  jandro Biachetti's Villa Maria trout from this season. 33.5 pounds. Let us re-type that so you can be sure it was not an error, a sea-run brown trout weighing 33.5 pounds.

In 2010, not one but two fish of 30 pounds were landed (and released) on our water, and we land and release any number of fish over 10, and over 15, and over 20 pounds each week. Catching a truly enormous fish is just a matter of being in the right pool at the right time. But you can't catch one unless you are here fishing with us. Now is the time to make plans. Then check, and double check your knots-they may be called on to hold tight against the fish if a lifetime!

 
 
 

You are still on time of you would like to be the one to break another record!

 
Available Dates
 
  Kau Tapen Lodge  
  Jan 14 - 21 6 spots remaining
  Feb 11 - 18 4 spots remaining
  Mar 3 - 10 4 spots remaining
  Villa María  
  Dec 30 - Jan 06 4 spots remaining
  Mar 23 - 30 6 spots remaining
 
 
 
 
DID YOU KNOW?
Futa Lodge
 

Futa lodge is the perfect place for a perfect vacation. If you are an angler but you don’t want to leave your family to go fishing, or if you have a group of fishing partners who you’ve always wanted to plan a trip with, then FUTA LODGE is the place for you. With its remote location in a very inaccessible part of the valley and its wonderful dry and wet fly fishing for rainbows and browns, Futa is a jewel managed and operated by Nervous Waters.

Fishing at FUTA is like stepping back in time... The countryside is reminiscent of Montana or Colorado at the turn of the last century. The fishing itself is some of the purest wild fly-fishing for rainbows and browns anywhere in the world. Each and every trout that you catch is a perfect representation of its specie.

The Futaleufu is a river that has a multitude of different types of water and styles of fishing. One minute your guide will be rowing you down stretches where you’ll fish a streamer under overhanging trees to tempt big browns from their hiding places and the next you’ll be fishing from the bank having stalked a wary pod of rainbows as they sip tiny dry flies from the surface.

For those who are interested, there are horse treks to the river from the lodge. This is a real treat, as you can admire the scenery and wildlife at a slow pace, without the engine noise that scares away birds and animals. Rafting is also one of the highlights for non-anglers. The Futaleufú Valley is undoubtedly the most romantic place in the world. A place to be close to nature, while enjoying some of the world’s best wild trout fishing and staying in comfort and style at Futa lodge.

 
  Available Dates  
  Jan 24 - 31 6 spots remaining
  Feb 18 - 25 6 spots remaining
 
For more information about Futa Lodge, click here.
 
 
 
 
 
SPRING BREAK COMING TO PIRÁ
Pira Lodge
 

The beginning of September welcomes the first signs of spring to these latitudes. The days begin to grow longer each day.  Although it is too early for the bloom, you can feel in your bones that the Ibera Marshlands have come back to life.

This environment is being rejuvenated, with the awakening of birds flying everywhere and filling the air with their songs. The cute capybaras present the new members of their families, demonstrating that they didn’t waste time during the winter. Caymans will leave the water to take long hours of sunbathing.   The colors of the marsh begin to change to green, with endless purple carpets of water hyacinths covering the channels and lagoons. 

It is at this time, the underwater life wakes up with schools of minnows running away from their main predator, the Dorado. After having been dormant during the last months, these guys are hungry and not in a good mood, just like some people in the morning…

The spring break for Dorados is coming, and big schools will be cruising the channels and rivers in search of nourishment, and of course doing their “spawning show”.  A lot of action is going to take part over the next few months at Ibera marshes. Fish last season were between 3,5 and 4 pounds, this season will be averaging 6 or 7 pounds.

If you have not yet booked your spot, you should do it now, or you will miss all the action!

 
  Available Dates  
  Dec 16 - 21 6 spots remaining
  Jan 14 - 22 4 spots remaining
  Feb 21 - 27 2 spots remaining
 
For more information about Pira Lodge, click here.
 
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