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| Chilean Brown Trout seem to really like beetles.... or maybe they hate them. Who cares, they kill them! |
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| Lago Azul Brown....some of the best sight fishing there is. |
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| Brown Trout from one of the spring creeks. |
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| Rio Paloma Brown |
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| Daniel Mesa, one of the Estancia guides. Turns out, the 14 hour days started to wear thin, resulting in a group nap on one of the spring creeks. |
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| Photo art......entitled..... Boots. |
Video and photos from our 2011 trip to Chile. Lots of slow eats on the Beetles!
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| Rio Manihuales Brown, meet Idylwilde fly! |
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| Estancia del Zorro |
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| Sebastian Letelier, head guide at Estancia del Zorro. Not only a very good guide, one of the best traditional Atlantic Salmon fly tiers in the world. Check out http://www.sebastianletelier.com/inicio.html |
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| End of the week lamb dinner being prepared at the Estancia. |
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| Estancia Spring Creek Brown |
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| Another Brown on a beetle. |
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| Rio Perogroso |
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| Rio Manihuales |
Tim Swailes with a nice Babine Buck. Very deep fish for it's length.
Jim Embrey with guide, Joe Buck and a fat, foam bug Brown.
Wanna catch Brown trout close to 30" long, on #10 Fat Alberts, in a spring creek that's 15 feet wide? Southern Chile is the place for you! Maureen Gifford with a dry fly Brown.
Frank Somer, on his very first Steelhead trip. None of those two handed rods for this guy. He kicked their asses with the single hand stick all week. 
Julia Hirst with her very first ever Brown Trout (actually first ever FISH!) caught on a fly rod. Took a day off hiking the rain forests and photographing Condors to outfish her husband this day in Chile.
Bert Kutos with a big Bull. Had to self photograph with the camera on a rock. Sorry about the photo quality but had to add to this post. It's a really nice Southern Alberta Bull.
Darren Wright with a pretty Babine Buck. Darren is one of the guides at Babine Norlakes Lodge. He qualifies for this post as he was on his day off and we were performing "research and development".
Fish On A Beetle In Chile from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.
Rising Fish Eats A streamer from Mike Gifford on Vimeo.
Southern Chile Brown Trout are kind of pretty!
Rio Cea, a pretty little spring creek not far from the lodge. I think you could fish every day for months and still not fish all the good trout water around Coyhaique.
A spring creek Brown Trout on a dry fly. Very technical pattern selection. If it's windy, a size 6 Fat Albert. If it's calm, a size 14 Fat Albert. Patagonia is Foam Bug Heaven!
One of the many spectacular waterfalls. This creek is only 150 yards long, flowing into a beautiful lake. There is, however, a two foot plus Brown right by the bushes in the above photo.
Another awesome Brown on a dry fly. Somebody asked me if I mind that Maureen seems to catch a lot more big Browns on dry flies than I do.... I'm getting used to it!
