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• Transfers to/from Calafate (Santa Cruz) to/from lago Strobel Lodge
• Fishing on Strobel Lake and the Barrancoso River
• Use of 4-wheel drive trucks and ATV´s inside the Estancia
• One professional guide for every two rods
• All meals at the Lodge prepared by our Chef
• All drinks at the Lodge, wine, beer, soft drinks, spirits - open bar
• Laundry service twice a week
• Electricity 24 hours a day (220 volts)
• Satellite television
• Wireless Internet access

• International flights
• Flights to and from Calafate
• Not included are gratuities for the guides and staff
• Satellite phone use
• Items of personal nature

The Fly Shop® is not in the insurance business, but we recommend Travel Guard coverage as a service with a desire to see your best interests protected. It is impossible to know when an unfortunate situation (loss of luggage, fly rods, illness in the family, or an accident) may occur. However, such things can and do happen, and this insurance can provide a means of recourse against non-refundable financial losses.

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retrieve your luggage, and clear Customs. The entire arrival process in Buenos Aires should take between 45 minutes and 1 ½ half hours.

Arrival El Calafate:
You will want to catch a morning flight via Aerolinas Argentinas from the Domesic Airport Jorge Newberry (AEP) to Calafate (FTE). Flight time is approximately 3 hours. Upon arrival to Calafate, you will be met by an Estancia Laguna Verde Representative and driven the 5 hours across an austere landscape – truly big sky country – eventually arriving to the comfortable lodge nestled on the edge of little Laguna Verde. Time should allow for fishing in the afternoon and early evening, after getting settled into your room and having a quick snack.

Optional overnight in Calafate before your scheduled arrival at the Laguna Verde: You do have the option to travel to Calafate on your day of arrival to Argentina, spending the night here instead of Buenos Aires.

Pick-up at the hotel the next morning (your day of arrival at Lago Strobel Lodge) is usually between 7:00 – 7:30 a.m. We will verify this time with the lodge, before your departure.

Full Days of fishing : A typical day at will begin with guests enjoying a lovely breakfast of multiple entrée choices, including fresh fruit and juices.

Those fishing the lake will access one of several large protected coves which they can fish from shore, wading the lake edge. Catching a number of fish, the guides will load the clients back into the vehicles and proceed to the next protected bay and repeat the process. Depending on the group’s schedule, anglers can choose to move to new water, or visit one of the seasonal streams (the Barrancoso, Moro, or the Monster’s Bay spring creek), or even one of the many other smaller lake options. Floating lines are the de rigueur choice here, allowing for quick changes between streamers, and oversized dries (yes, when the wind is down these monster trout sometimes cruise the surface, and can be sight-fished with large dry flies!); full slow-sinking lines can also be effective, particularly fishing streamers or nymphs on heavy wind days. Lunches are taken in the field.

There are two basic choices for those wishing to spend the day on the Rio Barrancoso, both beginning with a short drive to either an upstream or downstream section. If when you are there the water has been low for some time, odds are good there will be few monster trout high up on the creek, but the entire river is absolutely infested with 10-14 inch rainbows (with the occasional 20-inch "surprise"), which attack dries flies with reckless abandon; one can spend an entire day slowly plying the runs and pools of this upper valley, catching more fish than can be imagined, then walking back up to the truck for the short drive back to the lodge. If the water has been higher – meaning more large fish in the upper river - and the guides instruct it, you'll probably tie on a streamer immediately and fish it the rest of the day, prospecting in the colored water for giants.

The second option – downstream - begins the exact same way, but is for physically fit anglers that don't mind a strenuous day of hiking and clambering around big rocks. Earlier and later in the season the water is higher and colored, and fishermen will spend the day blind-casting streamers into all the deeper runs and holes (or sight-casting to monsters in shallow water at the stream’s edge), covering the water quickly and as efficiently as possible. At the end of this day, they will walk or use quad-runners to ride out of the deep canyon to waiting trucks, which they will use to drive back to the lodge. Here, also, lunches are taken in the field.

You will return to the lodge in the evening, after a very full day of fishing, in plenty of time to take a shower and freshen up. Appetizers and cocktails will be served in the lodge followed by a fine sit-down meal, complimented with some great Argentine Varietals. It’s a full day – sleep fast!

Departure El Calafate:
Guests will depart the lodge early this day, with the lodge driving them back to the airport at Calafate. We ask that clients make connecting flights no earlier than 1 pm, to accommodate a comfortable transfer; however, the lodge will make every effort to accommodate earlier flights, if necessary (but remember, it is a 5-hour drive, so no early morning flights, please).

The lodge's design and architecture is rustic and tastefully compliments the rugged Patagonia landscape.

Adjacent to the main lodge are 4 double bedrooms offering plenty of space to unpack and get organized. Each bedroom features a private , full bathroom and comfortable beds with full linens supplied.

Other amenities include Wi-Fi access, satellite phone, and laundry service provided twice weekly.

The Alba Family loves great food and libations and meals, especially lunch and dinner is an event.

Anglers can look forward to world-class regional cuisine prepared by a professional chef at Lago Strobel.

The Alba's passion is fly fishing, but a close second is wine! Both at Lago Strobel Lodge and Estancia Laguna Verde their cellars are stocked with hundreds of bottles of wine personally selected as well as a large assortment of local Patagonian and Argentine cheeses, aged on site.

Seated in their beautiful dining room, guests can expect a wonderfully prepared 3-course dinner with dishes such as steak, lamb, pork, chicken, house-made pastas, fish and paired with fresh vegetables from the family's organic vegetable garden. Each course is paired with a chef-selected wine to accompany the meal. A favorite of our guests, one night our chef and sous chef will prepare a traditional Argentine asado of grilled meats.

After the dinner, dessert is served along with after dinner aperitifs.

With zero light pollution and constellations unique to the southern hemisphere, you can enjoy a cigar and cocktail under the Patagonian sky, reliving the day's events and dreaming about the next.

Those fishing the lake will access one of a dozen large protected coves (15 miles of shoreline) which they can fish from shore, wading the lake edge. Catching a number of fish, the guides will load the clients back into the vehicles and proceed to the next protected bay and repeat the process. Depending on the group’s schedule, anglers can choose to move to new water, like the Barrancoso River for moving water fishing. Floating lines are the de rigueur choice here, allowing for quick changes between streamers, and oversized dries (yes, when the wind is down these monster trout sometimes cruise the surface, and can be sight-fished with large dry flies!); full slow-sinking lines can also be effective, particularly fishing streamers or nymphs on heavy wind days. Lunches are taken in the field.

There is the choice for those wishing to spend the day on the Rio Barrancoso, both beginning with a short drive to either an upstream or a downstream section. If when you are there the water has been low for some time, odds are good there will be few monster trout high up on the creek, but the entire river is absolutely infested with 10-14 inch rainbows (with the occasional 20-inch "surprise"), which attack dries flies with reckless abandon; one can spend an entire day slowly plying the runs and pools of this upper valley, catching more fish than can be imagined, then walking back up to the truck for the drive back to the lodge. If the water has been higher – meaning more large fish in the upper river - and the guides instruct it, you'll probably tie on a streamer immediately and fish it the rest of the day, prospecting in the colored water for giants.

The second option – downstream - begins the exact same way, but is for physically fit anglers that don't mind a strenuous day of hiking and clambering around big rocks. Earlier and later in the season the water is higher and colored, and fishermen will spend the day blind-casting streamers into all the deeper runs and holes (or sight-casting to monsters in shallow water at the stream’s edge), covering the water quickly and as efficiently as possible. At the end of this day, they will walk or use quad-runners to ride out of the deep canyon to waiting trucks, which they will use to drive back to the lodge. Here, also, lunches are taken in the field.

You will return to the lodge in the evening, after a very full day of fishing, in plenty of time to take a shower and freshen up. Appetizers and cocktails will be served in the lodge followed by a fine sit-down meal, complimented with some great Argentine Varietals. It’s a full day – sleep fast!