January 2016


Villa María Lodge: January 17 – 24, 2016

  We just finished the third week of the season at Villa Maria lodge and it was fantastic! The weather has improved dramatically from previous weeks with milder temperatures and gentle winds and this combination helped us to get the very best from the river. The river is now low and clear so you need …

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Kau tapen Lodge: January 9 – 16, 2016

Opening Week “Welcome home!” were the first words house manager Carolina said to me upon arrival. Alejandro Hemmingson’s bear hug followed, a warm welcome that had me feeling like I’d never left. The blues skies overhead were also a nice change from the storms and rain that the North Atlantic had been dumping on Ireland …

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Villa María Lodge: January 3 – 10, 2016

Welcome to Villa María Lodge 2016!! We opened our season with normal conditions for January, which means dry and windy. The water level is lower than last year at the same time and surely on the low side for the time of the season. But the river looks good and without many  structural changes following the …

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Rio Grande: River of Many Dreams

Text & Photos: Paul Smith A lifetime of fishing stories squeezed into one windy week. I am obsessed with seatrout. Many nights I dream about rotund and silver trout, still with clinging sea lice, and fresh from the cold waters of the North Atlantic. Furiously, at least in dreamscape, they attack my fur offerings, tied meticulously both on steel and …

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Friends in far places

A lifetime of fishing stories squeezed into one windy week. There is no airline flight too long, trail too rough, or paddle tough enough, to separate us from even a chance at that big fish rush. And the Rio Grande, considered the premier sea run brown trout river on Planet Earth, is the place to be for enormous trout. …

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Studies about the Rio Grande

By Bio. Miguel Casalinuovo. Tech. Carlos Luizón began studying salmonids in the Rio Grande system in 2006. He described the basic biology of trout in his thesis with the help of Dr. Miguel Pascual, of GESA. Around the same time, the University of Montana, in conjunction with Dr. Jack Stanford, conducted the first environmental analysis …

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Review: A Method for Big Fish, Big Rivers

Searching for chrome with Sage Fly Rods’ new two-handed series Finally, after five days, hundreds of river crossings, and thousands of miles in the rental car we had arrived. British Columbia’s mighty Skeena River flexed its muscle across rolling gravel bars and myriad channels upstream and down, and as we spilled out of the jetboat on …

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