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A very useful fly, m

A very useful fly, make it black with red eyes and smile like me when fishing in our streams in the south of Sweden.

This is a great fly

This is a great fly --used as a giant Muddler Minnow -- that works wonders at Coopers' Minipi Lodges in Labrador where the brook trout average 5.25 lbs. (2.4 kilos)

Pedro, I know o lot

Pedro, I know o lot of places in patagonia, only the publics acces to river and lakes, and this is true that exist to many places to fish. And many public access are too expensive for the services of guides and the cost of living in these places. Tierra del Fuego, Rio Gallegos, Strobel are destinations that are not for any angler, only for those who can spend a little extra money. I fish in cheap places, and fish very well. Happy who can fish in those expensive destinations, this is what I want to point, but this is not for all fly fiherman. If not, tell how much is spent to make a fishery to see if this is cheap or not. I send you greetings, good luck

Comment to About Streamers 365

Awesome site! Ive been tying 3 years now, and within the last year have started tying full dressed Atlantic Salmon flies as well as the more intricate streamers. Mostly freestyle of my own concoctions. I would love to share a few for the site!

Comment to About Streamers 365

Thanks for dropping in and checking out the site Rindy. It looks like we are full for the year already, but why don't you drop me an email with a few pictures of your flies. Perhaps I can share a bit of your work on the site or the facebook page. Cheers

D

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Nice video. It remin

Nice video. It reminded me of one I made about 70 years ago using a round "Quaker Oats" box. Fly line were very different then compared to hi-tech finishes of today, but cleaning is still important.

There`s one more info

There`s one more information about buying soft hackles. Of course you can buy by luck very good and not too expensive hen or game bird skins in the local shop`s, but a very, very good idea is to contact "Chevron Hackles" in the UK. I never tied with better hackles! Especially the coloured skins are absolut perfeckt for seatrout- and stillwater flies. Check them out!
Tight lines!

Comment to #35-2013 - Turqoise Noise by Bill Chand

I love sparse flies,i am a firm believer in the less a fish sees of a fly the more effective it can be.The jungle cock nails just finnish it off perfectly.nice one Bill...

Pedro,
Your a

Pedro,
Your article on fly fishing the Rio Grande River in the Tierra del Fuego was filled with interesting facts. You are indeed fortunate to live in Argentina, to have reasonably good, not necessarily easy access, to much good fly fishing. Please write more such informative articles. Reading is traveling in comfort, without the usual inconveniences. Thank you.

Tierra del Fuego and

Tierra del Fuego and most of Patagonia is full of empty space as well as being at the other end of the world, just getting there is quite an undertaking.

There are numerous parts of the Rio Grande, principally close to the sea where access to the river is not limited, except for the need of a fishing license and that catch and release must be practiced.

The fishing Lodges and the local authorities offer a mechanism to local anglers by which a request is made to the authorities and they coordinate with the operators of the lodges free access to the river.

Several guides offer services to out of town fishermen to travel daily to the river based in the city of Rio Grande.

I am sending this to you instead of commenting directly on GFF as I do not want to contribute further to the controversy, publish it if you feel it is appropiate.

Should anyone want to pursue this futher they can contact the local flyfishermen's association:

Asociación Riograndinense de Pesca con Mosca
Montilla 1040 "B"
Rio Grande (9420)
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Phone (54) 2964 421268
Email: arpm@ciudad.com.ar

Pedro Alfredo Miles

Pedro,

Nice artic

Pedro,

Nice article!

Some more interesting, straight facts about salmonides introduction in Patagonia (Chile ans Argentine) right here in GFF under: "Patagonian Salmonids"

saludos de Concordia
Heiko

1,5 hours of fightin

1,5 hours of fighting aka killing a Tarpon?

Florian

Kate,

I did go. I

Kate,

I did go. I didn't get to fish much, but had a great time anyway. I'll see if I can compile a few images and post them in a blog entry.

Martin

Thomas: Your example

Thomas: Your example does not proceed, is incoherent, I'm talking about a symbolic good and not a material good. I'm talking about free circulation in national rivers that Argentine Constitution and the Penal Code enables natives. Now the sea or brown are also foreigners? You need to know more about the history of how this resource fishing as a whole took place in Patagonia. And you should know more about the reality of the natives in these places before talking foolishness. It is very easy to pay U.S. $ 5000 for a week of fishing, boarding to a plane and go down to the river and then tell stories about what is not known. Thomas, try to learn more about the topic. Logically, buying a Ferrari is not an injustice, because not serves to to driving on the roads of Patagonia ...

Martin,
Did yo

Martin,
Did you go on your proposed fishing trip in April? I have not seen a follow up article although I may have overlooked
it. Perhaps unsettled weather came your way as it did in many areas of the US in April.

I can't buy a Porsch

I can't buy a Porsche or a Ferrari...that's not injustice. Is freedom, capitalism, free market. We are not equals. Locals were not the guys that kept the fantastic Rio Grande's population of seatrout. John Goodall (British landowner) planted the browns at the beginning of the last century; the estancias owners protected the seatrout and made a great business. The locals just killed the fish. Now they claim to fish.

It is the logic of t

It is the logic of the capitalist system in flyfishing. Do you see the product, but can not buy it. Rio Grande, Rio Gallegos as other places in the South America be sold to those who have money and own native can not enjoy them. This is the greatest injustice. I know enough to Patagonia and there are many places that do not have the access to the natives, I have plenty of stories to tell about this .....

Congrats Da!!! Love

Congrats Da!!! Love You!!!!

Unfortunately, it is

Unfortunately, it is a sad fact of life that what are called fully guided fishing trips with quality accommodations, in Alaska, Russia, South and North America, and other places in the world, can be afforded only by folks who have a fair amount of extra money. Many aspects of life are unfair; most of them are out of our control. Feel fortunate that you are alive and enjoy every day.

Thank you for ver

Thank you for very informative information.

only for millionaire

only for millionaires (argentines and sudacas) and gringos .....

Great simple article

Great simple article!...Neat informations!...Will surely use those tips when taking pictures of my carvings.

Thank you Thomas.

Yves Laurent

Colin,

Where in m

Colin,

Where in my text did you read that I want boring and non-edited video?
That's not really what I wrote, was it?
You're reading my text as the devil reads the bible as we say here. You see what you want to see.

And it might be that the popular videos all have slow motion or high speed scenes, but that doesn't make me like it.

We're in the lucky situation that we can decide what we like and don't like, and I don't like stop motion, time lapse, sped up scenes and slow motion and a handful of other things - in fishing videos, in movies, in music videos or other video productions. You might love it, and that's good for you, because we obviously see more and more of it.

Luckily there's a lot of videos where there's none of it - and a few where it's used really well.

To each his own.

Martin