A little spooky maybe? Photo: Chris Price Southern Chile showcases Mother Nature at her finest, and sometimes her most bizarre. In the course of a fishing trip at Chile West, we find a multitude of insect life on the river. Aquatic insects such as stoneflies, caddisflies, damselflies, dragonflies, craneflies, mayflies and midges make up the…
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Trout Fishing: Swinging Flies
Trevor, fixin’ to swing. Photo: Chris Price When trout fishing, the environment is an ever-changing world and versatility in fishing methods is advantageous to the success of an angler. One of the many techniques that we use to target trout at Chile West is to swing flies. When wade fishing is available, this method can…
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Learning To Fly Fish
Non-experts having fun, learning to fly fish. Photo: Cameron Miller At Deneki Outdoors, our lodges are totally focused on providing a fly fishing experience that’s second to none. Does that mean that you need to be an expert to fish with us? Heck no. Three of our four lodges are great places to learn how…
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Trout Fishing: Dry Fly Techniques – Work Your Way Upstream
“Land it 4 inches to the left of that fern over there. The green one.” Photo: Trevor Covich Whether you’re in Chile or Montana, when dry fly fishing from shore or wading, the best approach, if possible, is to start in the ‘tailout’ and work your way up the pool. Fish are almost always facing…
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Trout Fishing: Banging the Banks
This fatty was banged on the bank. Photo: Jared Moore At Chile West, we use a bunch of different techniques to catch fish. The method we use most often is something called “bangin’ the banks”. This method is used while floating rivers where dense forest grows right to the water’s edge, or where steep rock…
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Trout Fishing: Nymphing Techniques
Bonefish, 10 o’clock, 30 feet! Whoops…sorry, wrong post. Today we continue our series on trout fishing tactics, based on our approach at Chile West but applicable anywhere trout swim. The topic of the day is nymphing techniques. You’ve been floating the river, it’s noon or so, sun is high, it’s hot, fishing has slowed down,…
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Trout Fishing: Nymphing and Current Speed
Mr. Lincoln, meet Mr. Nymph. Mr. Nymph, Mr. Lincoln. Photo: Chris Price Today we continue our series on trout fishing tactics, based on our approach at Chile West but applicable in any water where trout swim! In most trout fisheries nymphs are the biggest part of a trout’s diet, so we’re kicking things off with…
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Trout Fishing: Terminology
Garrett Sullivan fishes the bucket. What a surprise. Today we start a series of posts about classic trout fishing tactics. In this series, we’re not talking about the salmon-part-eating rainbows of Western Alaska— we’re talking about the mainly-insect-eating critters of the Rockies and the Northeast and our ‘classic trout’ fishery in Southern Chile. Much of…
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Chile West Destinations Part Four: Coyhaique
A nice rainbow from just outside Coyhaique Our fourth destination at Chile West is Coyhaique. At this point we’ve fished the waters around Palena, La Junta and Cisnes and we’re closing in on the end of our journey through Southern Chile. On the way to Coyhaique, we stop in the Manihuales area – part of…
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Chile West Destinations Part Three: Cisnes
Scenery on the road to Cisnes Having already hit Palena and La Junta, part three of our four-part series on our destinations at Chile West covers our stay in Cisnes. The drive to Cisnes is spectacular. We head further south on the Carretera, into the Queulat (Kay-oo-lot) national park, passing through the town of Puyuhuapi (Poo-you-hwapee). One…
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