Kau Tapen Lodge
Kau tapen Lodge: February 6 – 13, 2016
Key Ingredients Free time last summer allowed me to spend sometime in the Southwest of Ireland fishing on what is considered the premier sea trout fishery on the island. This was probably my 15th or 16th time visiting the fishery and in the past I had been pleased with my success ( I am talking …
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Kau tapen Lodge: Jan. 30 – Feb. 6, 2016
Journey Men Ever since Max M. went south to the Rio Grande and Steve E. travelled North to the Ponoi there has been a huge connection between both places. Both guides and guests have followed the same paths and made similar journeys. Week number 4 at Kau Tapen saw quite a collection of these …
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Read More >>Kau tapen Lodge: January 23 – 30, 2016
Guides Excel at Kau Tapen I have always said “the education you get from doing a full seasons guiding on any fishery is invaluable”, day in day out studying, watching, analysing a myriad of different factors which affect your ultimate target – catching a fish. Your mind is constantly busy weighing up each and …
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Read More >>Kau tapen Lodge: January 16 – 23, 2016
Fishing con Chicas Anglers the world over have heard again and again the conundrum as to why female anglers catch bigger fish, many hypothesis have been developed ( mainly by the dominant practitioners of the sport – Men), pheromones, shorter casts, delicate presentation, luck etc etc. Having witnessed this weeks fishing I would propose a …
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Read More >>Kau tapen Lodge: January 9 – 16, 2016
Opening Week “Welcome home!” were the first words house manager Carolina said to me upon arrival. Alejandro Hemmingson’s bear hug followed, a warm welcome that had me feeling like I’d never left. The blues skies overhead were also a nice change from the storms and rain that the North Atlantic had been dumping on Ireland …
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Read More >>Tierra del Fuego: Wild as the wind
Text & Photos Matt Harris Far to the west, the Rio Grande comes splashing down out of the Chilean Andes to begin its long, meandering descent across the wide pampas of central Tierra del Fuego before spilling into the Atlantic. It is, to the untrained eye, not an especially enticing river – the savage and …
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Rio Grande: River of Many Dreams
Text & Photos: Paul Smith A lifetime of fishing stories squeezed into one windy week. I am obsessed with seatrout. Many nights I dream about rotund and silver trout, still with clinging sea lice, and fresh from the cold waters of the North Atlantic. Furiously, at least in dreamscape, they attack my fur offerings, tied meticulously both on steel and …
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Read More >>Friends in far places
A lifetime of fishing stories squeezed into one windy week. There is no airline flight too long, trail too rough, or paddle tough enough, to separate us from even a chance at that big fish rush. And the Rio Grande, considered the premier sea run brown trout river on Planet Earth, is the place to be for enormous trout. …
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Read More >>Simon Gawesworth at Kau Tapen Lodge!
If you want to learn to cast like a pro- from a pro, you need to sign up soon. After a week with Simon you’d have to get in your car to get farther away from your fly. From Jan 10-17th, 2015, join jovial host, and champion fly caster and fly fisherman, Simon Gawesworth for …
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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge: March 21-27, 2015
Fishing Report: Mar 21-27, 2015 – By James Topham Martin Carranza, Florida guide and Nervous Waters partner at Chime Lodge brought a group of his friends and clients down south for a taste of the famous giant patagonian sea trout. Most were accomplished single hand fisherman, but all but one had experience with a double …
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