July 2015
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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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge: March 7 – 13, 2015
7th Mar – 13th Mar. By James Topham My boyhood hero was Robert F. Scott, the famous Antarctic explorer from the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. Those of you familiar with the story will recall Captain Oats, who stricken frostbite and realizing he was slowing down the group said, “I’m going outside, I might …
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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge: Feb 25- Mar 2, 2015
So ends another fun fishing session at Kau Tapen Lodge, but by all accounts it was not your average week. Mark Taylor from Mavungana, Norway, brought his friends from all the way up there, to all the way down here. I’d been looking forward to this week as I know the crew well from …
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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge – February 21 – 27, 2015
As you know, there’s always something to be learned when flyfishing. So I’m wary when someone calls himself an absolute “expert”—unless that person is veteran KT guide Max Mamaev. He comes pretty close. This week, we all learned a few important things: the first being the positives that come from practicing new techniques before venturing …
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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge – February 2015
So ends another week at Kau Tapen, but by all accounts it was not you’re average week. Mark Taylor from Mavungana Norway brought his Norwegian friends from all the way up there, to all the way down here. I’d been looking forward to this week as I know the crew well from guiding in Norway …
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Read More >>Kau Tapen Lodge – February 12-19, 2015
Posted on March 3, 2015 by Nervous Waters Feb 12-19, 2015 – By James Topham Well that one went quickly! It seems like yesterday that the group arrived, and now I’ve just said goodbye. As they say, time is relative. Then again, I guess fishing is too. Anyway, this week was defenatly a quality over …
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Kau Tapen Lodge – Fishing Report 2015
Posted on February 19, 2015 by Nervous Waters Kau Tapen Lodge Fishing Report – February 2015 – By James Topham The weeks are flying by! And a melting pot of nationalities has joined us at Kau Tapen Lodge united by their love, or curiosity, of monster Patagonian sea trout. So far no one has left disappointed. This …
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