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Fishing Patagonia - Rio Pico
FLY FISHING PATAGONIA - RIO PICO: INFORMATION
Fly fishing Rio Pico
Highlights: 8 days, 7 nights. Rio Pico - Tres Rios Ranch.
Next departures: Private from November to April or open departures. Euros, Usd.
Price:3150 Usd, 2100 Euros.
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Climate
It is usually hot in Buenos Aires during summer in south hemisphere from November to April (30 to 35º C during the day).
In Patagonia, near Esquel and more in the mountains, it can be cold: 8 to 20° C average in both November and April , rising up to 22 to 26° C in summer (December, January, February). It rains more at the beginning and at the end of the season, but not during the summer season (January, February).
Fishing Areas
-Fishing Areas at Río Pico
Río Pico: Fishing fording the river in private Estancias.
Lago Tres: onboard fishing.
Lago Cinco: onboard fishing.
Upstream part of Río Pico: From the confluence with Río Nilson to the Chilean border. Fishing fording the river in private Estancias.
About
the Fly fishing area of Rio Pico
In the Río Pico area you find Pacific trouts and salmons, a rural background and more. It is located in the province of Chubut, 250 km South of Esquel, offering you the possibility of fishing in a virgin landscape and capturing surprisingly large pieces of outstanding quality.
Nilson River is a typical mountain river, with meanders, big wells and fallen trees swept up by the current. It is an ideal spot to fish with light 4 or 5 equipment, using dry flies as Humpys, Royal Coachman, Wullfs or nymphs as Prince, Pheasant tail and caddis larvae in 10 to 16 hooks. There are plenty brown and rainbow trouts weighing 2 kilos average.
As the Pico River flows into the Pacific, there are a lot of salmons as well as good brown and rainbow trouts. This is a river that changes its physiognomy on its way to the ocean, it starts off as a slow plain river to become a rocky one flowing between mountains. In its confluence with Nilson River, fishing with equipment of 5 and 6, with floating lines and shootings gets good results. With dark and dry nymphs, caddies imitation in 10 to 16 hooks or black and brown wolly buggers tied over 6 to 12 hooks make for really dynamic fishing.
To capture the Pacific salmons, you will need, at least, an 8 equipment, shootings and big flies as the Andino Deceivers 2/0 and 3/0, in bright colors, and basically, you will need “luck”, because Fly Fishing is not an easy thing to do.
Another area you cannot miss is Lake 3 (Pico River), where you can catch large rainbow and brown trouts, 2 to 5 kilos average, but is common to capture pieces that widely exceed these weights.
The shores of this little lake are surrounded by rushes, so using floating lines is essential, with 6 to 8 equipment, nymphs and adult dragonflies, caddis, wolly buggers, zonkers, marabou muddlers and other streamers.
The Trouts and Salmons of Pico River are waiting for you!!!!
Fly fishing Guides
Our fly fishing guides are bilingual professional guides from the province of Chubut with high experience of the area.
Gears
We suggest taking dequate clothing for you are going to places in the mountains, warm but light sweaters and jackets for from rain and wind protection, chest high waders with felt soles, polar fleece long underwader pants, rain jackets, polarized glasses, hat, sunscreen lotion.
Fly fishing equipment
Rods & Reels
We recommend 2 rods and reels. The ideal combination
will be a 4 weight rod with a WF floating line and a
6-weight with a floating line and class V sinking
shooting head. If you prefer to travel light, then a
5-weight rod coupled with a floating line and fast
sinking shooting head will be a good overall choice.
Argentina is free from Whirling Disease, so please bring new equipment or disinfect your own.
Flies
Streamers: Wolly Buggers some with Bead Heads in
black, olive and brown (size 4-10), Rabbits in
cinnamon and white (sizes 2-8), Marabou Muddlers in
black and natural brown (sizes 2-8) and black, brown
and Grizzly Matukas in small sizes from 8 to 14.
Nymphs: Prince ( sizes 12-16), green caddis larva
(sizes 12 -18), pheasant tail (sizes 12-22), Hare's
ear in natural, olive and black (size 10-16), midges
(size 18 - 20) and some stone fly imitations in
black, brown and olive (size 6 -10).
Dry: Caddis (size 12-18), Chernobyl ants, western
adams (size 10-16), stimulators (size 8-14), Royal
Wulf and Humpys (sizes 10-14), Griffiths Gnat ( size
18-22).
A selection of terrestrials such as hoppers, ants and
beatles will give you a lot of action in the waters we
will fish.
Our Equipment
- 3 4WD (Chevrolet and Nissan from 2002).
- 1 Mercedes Sprinter (2003).
- 4 barques and boats (35 et 50 hp) for fishing on board and
sailing transfers to fishing areas.
- 6 floats.
Time
GMT -3.
 Currency
The local currency is the peso. One euro is about 4 pesos and One Usd is about 3 pesos. It is not necessary to travel with a lot of cash (pesos or dollars). Visa, MasterCard or American express are accepted everywhere.
Customs
To enter the country, only a passport is needed (more than
6 months validity).
Health
Nothing is compulsory concerning vaccination. Being vaccinate
against Hepatitis B is recommended. And an important point:
do not drink water of the tap.
Food
Argentina is well known for its wines, produced mostly in the province of Mendoza, near the Andes, and… for its fabulous beef! Ask for a "bife de chorizo" or "lomo" and have it with a good red Malbec wine. In Patagonia, don´t miss the Patagonian lamb barbecue, nor the trouts from the lakes nor the Pacific salmons.
If you are a vegetarian: no problem, Argentina is a great fruit and vegetable producer, so you will find quality and variety at very low prices.
-Eating at El Pedregoso and Tres Rios Ranch:
All is included (except bar drinks). All is home-made at the Lodges with natural products of the area. The lunches and dinners are of 1 starter or soup, 1 main course (beef, sheep, pastas or chicken and “asado patagónico”), 1 dessert and the best wines of Argentina.
Photo pano - © Francisco Bedeschi
BOOKING
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