February 2020


Villa Maria Lodge Week 7: Feb 14-20, 2020

At the midway point of our 12 week season, we were excited to welcome back Henrik, Jonni, Mark, and John along with a few new faces, Dan, Andrew, and Charlie. The first morning we rigged up small flies with long leaders and lighter tips, as the river was getting to its lowest and clearest we’d …

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Villa Maria Lodge Week 6: Feb 7-13, 2020

This week we finally had the blessing of stable river conditions, something that the previous weeks were lacking. For the first time this season, we didn’t have any shift in water coloration or river depth. What was challenging, however, were the winds. This week, they seemed to blow from any imaginable direction, making the fishing …

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Pirá Lodge Mid-February Report, 2020

The 2020 season is going as smoothly as can be, in the past two weeks, we’ve battled and landed a phenomenal number of Golden Dorados throughout our section of the Ibera Marshland.  The weather has been in our favor this summer, lots of sunny days and clear skies in the evenings have granted us wonderful …

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Kau Tapen Lodge Week 6: Feb 9-14, 2020

What a week! My hands are still shaking, and I am still trying to catch my breath. Such an eventful, fun, successful, and overall amazing week that none of us wanted to end. A full house with some good friends returning to visit us: Vini and Luke, who we got to know last year and …

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Villa Maria Lodge Week 5: Jan 31- Feb 6, 2020

For our fifth week of the season, we welcomed back Bruno, Mike, Michael, and Sandee.  During our warm-up session, as we expected, the river rose from the heavy rain up in the headwaters that hit the region in the previous week. Even with the rising river, we were very optimistic about the week to come …

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Kau Tapen Lodge Week 5: Feb 1-8, 2020

A strange, but very eventful week comes to its end. As we began our fifth week of the season, we were all expecting very consistent weather and water conditions. Especially with the amount of fish now already in the system, these weeks are usually very predictable and consistent. While the river was in absolutely great …

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Suindá Lodge – January 2020

January’s fishing on our section of Parana River has been highly productive, mainly due to the stable river conditions we have been enjoying. Dorado have been landed throughout our section’s diverse structures.  Our biggest fish of the month were fooled when fishing over the rock gardens and rocky banks. We’ve been using various lines and …

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Kau Tapen Lodge Week 4: Jan 25-31, 2020

Here we go again! Another amazing week was upon us and we could not be more excited. Promising water conditions together with a full group of very capable anglers, most of them here for their very first time: Brian and Kevin (UK), Keith and Laurence (UK), Claude (CAN) and Jon (USA), Teresa and Martin (ARG), …

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Pirá Lodge – January 2020

As we wrap up the second week of January, our fishing has been phenomenal! These last two weeks have been filled with Dorado action, new faces and plenty of familiar returning clients.   Our weather has been stellar with blue skies nearly every day and some of the most spectacular sunsets we have ever seen.  The …

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Villa Maria Lodge Week 4: Jan 24-30, 2020

This week we welcomed back Gerald, Marc, Gina, Bruno, Jonathan and our new friend Hans.  The week started off with a bang. With the river at a near-perfect level, fresh fish in the system and some veteran anglers staying with us we had the “perfect storm”. It seemed like every session anglers were coming back …

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