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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Ultrathon Insect Repellant: Why We Like It
Good fish, bad bugs. Photo: Cameron Miller Like it or not, when you leave the cities and travel to pristine remote fisheries, you’re likely to encounter some bugs. Whether it’s mosquitoes in Alaska, ‘no-see-ums’ in the Bahamas or horseflies in BC, little flying critters can be a pain in the behind. We’ve tried every bug…
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Cantaria Redux
Um, yeah…that’s a big beetle. Photo: Trevor Covich We’ve posted before about the incredible Chilean trout food known as the Cantaria beetle. This photo from last week at Chile West kind of brings it home, don’t you think? That’s a big meal for a trout. Maybe it makes sense that they go nuts when they…
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The Cantaria Beetle
One of the best parts about fishing in Southern Chile is the incredible insect life. There’s huge variety in the bugs…and there are some huge bugs. At Chile West, our favorite may be the Cantaria beetle, or ‘flying deer’. It’s at first glance a nasty looking bug with fierce pinchers, horns and claws. With a body…
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