Good to be back in Patagonia Chile!

One week down, with two weeks to go here at Picacho Lodge, Chile. The fishing was pretty good despite it was rainy, wet, and cold weather nearly our entire week. All our guests caught plenty of beautiful trout, and Christian, Claudio, and Martin worked extremely hard to make our stay at the lodge very comfortable and our fishing memorable. We have two more weeks of clients on the way, I will try to get a blog up every once in awhile when I can. It's kind of hard to get away from fishing right now... Here's is just a few photos from the week, I hope you enjoy them!   

An angler stripping a few streamers at the "Rock Bridge"

An Upstream view of "Rock bridge" Rio Picacho, Chile.

Patagonian Kingfisher

Swinging streamers for trout on the Rio Picacho.

Bobby with an "EXTREMELY RARE" Rio Picacho Atlantic Salmon!

Take a look at the "x" spots and color, This Atlantic Salmon been in the river for a few weeks. 

Fighting a large brown on Lago Copa.

Our guide Claudio with Bobby's Brown Trout from the picture above.

I'm stalking a large brownie on an un-named outlet of a Lago.

Got Him! I love educating a selective feeding trout! This fish was eating size 18 grey stoneflies, it's nice to see it all come together.

Here he is! He was pretty pissed when that stonefly decided to bite back!

Tough casting on some of the water here, but well worth the effort.

A fat brown from Logo Roosevelt.

Patagonian sunset.......what a fine way to end the day.

Our guide Martin preparing a traditional Chilean asado on the shore of the Lago Roosevelt at and old Gaucho camp.

I will update you when I can, so until the next time.... Rock On!
MT
AKA "The Trout Santa"

It Was A Grand Day...

It was nice to finally get out and enjoy at least one day during this extremely mild winter. We typically use the months of January and February to replenish the fly boxes, catch up with family, work on projects, and complete some of those chores that are overlooked during the fall. This year it seems old man winter decided to go on vacation? The Lake Erie Tributaries have remained open and it seems just about everyone, with the exception of myself has taken full advantage of the opportunity to fish straight through the winter.  It was so nice to get out...

Already Looking Forward to Spring!

I wasn't able to get out as much as I would have liked this January! The mild weather to this point was a blessing, and a few of the guys really took advantage of the stellar winter fishing opportunities. I just wanted to put a quick note out on the coming spring season. Our guide schedule is really starting to fill up for both March and April, if you are looking to get out this spring, please put your trip dates in as soon as possible to insure that your requested days are available. If you need to ask a few questions or need more info, please use the easy online trip request form Here. We look forward to seeing many of our regulars again this spring, and welcome the opportunity to fish with all who are interested in catching Lake Erie Steelhead on the fly.  

Over the next couple of weeks we will be adding several new fly tying tutorials to our Fly Tying Blog. It's only a matter of time before we all have some phase of cabin fever to combat, so we are hoping the tutorials will be useful and somewhat of a quick escape. We will also be changing focus on the online fly shop to offer an array of new steelhead streamer patterns. Now that winter is officially here, we will be working on some long over due projects, and will return focus to this blog with better weather and spring nearing. Here are a few pictures from Tim Hess and Mike Sowers from this January.  

It's A Good Time To Remind...

First of all, our apologies for the disappearance of the latest post. For some reason unbeknownst to us, a technical difficulty took place and absolutely blew up the latest post highlighting our destination trip to Alaska and Chile.

Do to a lack of time, here we have the Alaska dates again and just a few photos of our trip in the summer of 2011 to the Bristol Bay Region. If you are interested, contact us soon as positions are filling fast.

Alaska Week #1 - August 18th-25th

Hosts: Joel Bock & Tim Hess

Alaska Week #2 - September 8th - 15th

Hosts: Patrick Robinson & Ben Barger

Note: If you are interested contact us directly for information. Anyone booking before February 1st can save $200 on this already inexpensive trip of a lifetime. We guarantee that you will not find many other trips priced as competitively as this and now you can save another $200. Give us a shout if you are interested.

We hope to see you on this year's excursion to the great state of Alaska!

Patrick "Flybum" Robinson

Head Guide

Steelhead Alley Outfitters