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The Road less Traveled

A long comment to a video developed into a full fledged illustrated article about a nice trip to Chilean Patagonia.

8 years ago
The Path of the Jaguar

This is a film project that aims to highlight the value of some of Colombia 's main river systems, which have been hidden and protected for half a decade, and you have the opportunity to support the project.

8 years ago
Dorado

Locally it is known as "el tigre de los rios", the tiger of the rivers, and Argentina's famed Dorado is a popular and sought after gamefish.

11 years ago
Rio Grande Revisitado

Argentinean fly-fisher Pedro Alfredo Miles has visited that most famous of all South American rivers again - Rio Grande.

11 years ago
Tributaries

In an odd way the highlight of this video is the final poor quality Skype conversation, which takes place between the three main characters, Prescott Smith, Siggi Haugur and Tuqui Viscarro. They are all fishing guides, but with very different backgrounds and from very different parts of the world: Bermuda, Iceland and Argentina. But as we have just seen in the video, they can conclude that their attitude towards fishing, nature, clients and life as a whole is amazingly identical.

"The same shit under the sun", as Icelandic Siggi so eloquently puts it.

11 years ago
Rio Grande

The Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego is one of the great trout rivers of Argentina. In this large and windswept river you can catch some of the largest sea run brown trout in the world.

12 years ago
Lake Vintter

Lake Vintter may be the mother of all Patagonian lakes. Huge, rough, windswept high in the mountains and full of huge brook trout and rainbows.

13 years ago
Patagonian salmonids

The fascinating story of the introduction of salmonids into Argentina and the Patagonian waters told by local guide Heiko Schneider. Without the work done by people a century ago, Argentina would be a very different fishing destination... if any at all.

14 years ago
In search of Dinosaurs

Follow Heiko Schneider and Carolina Perez as they go fly fishing for Wolf Fish or Tararira, Hoplias malabaricus, an ancient looking South American fish that can be found in murky waters full of weed, branches and other obstacles.

14 years ago
Chasing Gold

South America's Golden Dorado is famous for its beauty and its willingness to chase a fly. German Heiko Schneider has moved to Argentina and has now adapted the Dorado as his preferred quarry. Togther with his wife Carolina he chases the Dorado in the lakes.

15 years ago
South Patagonia 2

Follow Rolandas and his friends on this second part of their trip to Patagonia. This time concentrated on steelhead and huge rainbows from a famous and clear lake with the Hollywoodian name: Jurrasic Lake.

16 years ago
Take me back

Join Thomas Weiergang on a road-trip in Chile. The only thing to worry about, is when to fish again. When he planned the trip, he marked down some likely looking blue lines on the map, but nothing could prepare him for what he found.

16 years ago
Patagonia on a Budget

A tour de Budget to one of the world's roughest and most famous parts when it comes to steak, emus, sea trout and the biggest pumped-up rainbows you can imagine. Follow the Lithuanian gung-ho team from planning to river fishing to Jurrasic Lake.

17 years ago
Tango Trout

Author Joe Kissane got an unexpected and generous offer when a friend called from Buenos Aires to invite him to Patagonia on a fly-fishing trip to the Rio Manso Lodge in the shadow of the Andes Mountains. He was told that the waters were relatively untouched - and full of trout.

19 years ago

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