Monday, March 18, 2013

Rio Quinto


As we drive up to the river Dubei is waiting for me with 5 horses as usual.  All seems normal except for the fact that I am in Patagonia and about to lead another horse pack trip up the Quinto River for a day of wade fishing and floating.

This is my first winter guiding down in South America.  This is also the first season that anyone from our lodge has guided the half-day pack trip up the Quinto River.

This river is very special because the only way to access the upper stretches are by horseback.  Therefore it sees virtually no fishing pressure.  Since it was the first season anyone from our lodge has guided it that made it quite an adventure my first few trips up there.  Locating where the fish where, what they were eating and how they moved through the river as the water levels rose and dropped were all part of the challenge.

It is not a river of big numbers but more of a technical fishery.  The fish you do find are quite beautiful and wonderful to take on the fly.  There are spots to fish streamers, dries, nymphs, and even a few spots to get up on banks and sight fish to cruising rainbows with small beetle patterns.  It has been a wonderful season of guiding down here in Patagonia and I can only hope that next winter will afford me the same opportunities.













It has been a wonderful season of guiding down here in Patagonia and I can only hope that next winter will afford me the same opportunities.