If you are interested in flyfishing as a sport. If you have fun using the most diverse and fine technics to achieve your goals. If you like to enjoy beautiful landscapes, woods, hills and mountains, and abundant fauna. And if, also, you have the chance to get in a hard fight with huge sea run brown trouts as well as resident trouts on the most famous river in the world, the río Grande. Then the place for you is the Cameron Lodge, in Tierra del Fuego, Chile.

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The rio Grande is the largest river on the Tierra del Fuego island, and is well known for its huge seatrout and the solitude of the countryside.

The Estancia Cameron main houses are 60 kilometers from where our Cameron Lodge is located. Our Lodge is the Estancia Cameron's recently refurbished administration house, built on a high cliff, with a great view over the Darwin Range and less than one hundred yards from the Río Grande. This Estancia has about fifty kilometers of frontage on the north side of the Río Grande (all the way down stream to the Argentinean border), with Ted Turner's Estancia San José neighboring on the "other side of the fence". Cameron’s water is almost identical to our downriver neighbor’s section, for those who have already fished on the Argentinean side.

It's a beautiful place, surrounded by wooded hillsides, with the snowy Darwin Range overlooking the region. The wildlife and birds are much more plentiful than on the Argentinean side - on any given day, it’s not unusual to see hundreds of grazing guanacos, or observe dozens of magnificent condors soaring overhead. You will especially enjoy the solitude of having this splendid fishery to yourself, with the chance of fishing yet unnamed pools where few outsiders have ever cast a fly!

It's an excellent river for flyfishing, sometimes more challenging and rewarding than downstream in Argentina, due to the different techniques and finesse that have to be employed. The water is much clearer, and maintains it’s clarity, even in higher flows. The fishing is also rewarding because there's always action. In this section of the river sea run browns average ten pounds, with monsters up to eighteen/twenty pounds. On occasion we’ll even land really huge fish, well over twelve kilos (twenty six pounds)!!!

Unlike the lower Argentinean section of the river, there are also resident river browns up to the six pound class, beautifully colored fish that readily take our flies. In addition, anglers will find some healthy, “chromer” lake run browns, with the shape of a rugby ball, that enter the river from the Blanco lake for our enjoyment. And, completing the "Grand Slam", there are rainbows too! You will see them some meters from you, down stream, feeding on the aquatic insects you kick up from the bottom of the river. It's something to be seen!!!

We accomodate ten guests in two very nicely arranged cabins. The original lodge, Cabin #1, has two double bedrooms with private facilities, and a nice living/dining room with a cozy wood stove - very welcome after a long days' fishing - with a splendid sight of the river and the mountains! At Cabin #2 we have four doble bedrooms with private facilities and, overlooking at the river and snowed mountain peaks, a very nice living area with a warm wood stove.

The daily menu includes regional Chilean meals very rich in seafood, like king crab, mussels, scallops, calamari, clams, (collected at the Punta Arenas area) and, of course, the popular beef or lamb asado (Tierra del Fuego is a hoof and mouth disease-free zone). Cocktails, like the typical Chilean "Pisco Sour", and the justifiably famous Chilean wines are served with the meals.

This fishing package includes six and a half days fishing, seven nights lodging (double occupancy and guide sharing), all meals, all cocktails, wine, beer and sodas, one guide with a 4 x 4 vehicle for every two rods, fishing license. Tips (15%) and personal items are not included.

FISHING SEASON
The fishing season on the Río Grande runs from October through April. In November and December the fishing is very good, but the peak months are January, February, March and April. We encourage you to make your reservations as soon as possible, as there is usually a great demand for the peak months on the whole river.

EQUIPMENT
Single and two-handed rods in the 6-9 weight category between 9 and 14 feet are ideal. Shooting heads and fast sinkers (such as the Teeny or Scientific Anglers series of lines), as well as floaters or the new interchangeable tips lines, should all be brought. Tippet material should be in the 5-10kg (10-20 lbs) breaking strain category. The most effective flies for the area will be available at the lodges at a reasonable price. Disc drag reels are recommended, and anti-reverse can also be an advantage.

CLOTHING
A layering system is mandatory, waterproof, breathable hooded wading jacket, polarfleece midlayer, capilene underwear or similar. Fingerless gloves, windstopper hat, polarized glasses (rated 100%uv protection). There might be hot weather in summer but that's unpredictable. In those days, ligth clothing with a windproof shell are a better option. The ozone hole and corresponding increase in uv radiation is a problem in October and november. We reccommend you to use prescribed sun blocking creams. Clients should have health insurance with international coverage before leaving their countries. If they are taking medicine prescribed by a doctor, they should bring enough for the entire trip.

ITINERARY
Day 1 (Monday). Meeting at the Pampa Guanaco or Porvenir airfields or at the Punta Arenas and Río Grande Airports, your choice! After lunch a brief siesta (nap), and then a ride for the evening's fishing. Day 2 to 7. Fishing the Rio Grande, rotating pools along the more than 50 kilometers of available water. Day 8 (Saturday). Transfer back to the airfields or airports.

RATES
Please, ask for quotation.
Daily bookings are also available, minimum three days and two rods.

For more information, please, contact us by phone/fax at +54-2964-42-3341 or by e-mail at: anglers.tdf@gmail.com

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