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Host, owner and head guide Alex Knüll grew up in the San Martin area, and knows the streams and rivers in this northern Argentine Patagonia region like no one else.  His equipment and work ethic is second to none. Patagonia River Guides (PRG) North has a dawn-to-dark work attitude and you’d better pack plenty of stamina (more…)

These fellas from Montana have made quite a name for themselves in Patagonia They’ve applied Yankee fly fishing know-how to some of the smaller, off-the-beaten-path rivers and streams of the distant Esquel region of Argentina. Their equipment and work ethics are second to none, and these guys have built a reputation that is as large as (more…)

This intimate, comfortable lodge has been carved out of some of the most inhospitable country imaginable, with nothing but rocky, windswept, sagebrush-dotted volcanic plains as far as the eye can see. The “meseta de la muerta” (little table of death) to the south and the occasional glimpse of Mount San Lorenzo to the northwest and (more…)

Pirá Lodge, located on the southern shore of the Ibera Marsh is a world-class operation that offers more than great guides, great fly fishing and great accommodations. And if there is a nicer or more professional dorado fishing lodge in this part of Argentina, we don’t know about it. The Ibera Marsh is an enormous (more…)

Dorados On The Fly, owned by Ricardo “Pinti” Pinto, is an exciting golden dorado fishing destination on the upper Parana River, located near the small fishing village of Ita Ibate, in Northern Argentina province of Corrientes. Pinti is a passionate fly fisher and recognized expert on dorado with a sincere desire to show his guests (more…)

Tarpon Cay’s fishing program is based out of Rio Lagartos, Mexico, a small fishing village on the North West point of the Yucatan Peninsula. Although it is less 3 hours by car from Cancun, it feels like you are in the middle of nowhere and all alone. A mecca for baby tarpon, the area is (more…)

Playa Blanca is a beautiful full service resort located on a secluded white sand beach with several guest bungalows and a central lodge for meals, meetings and cocktail hours. Playa Blanca is located 10 miles south of Casa Blanca (its sister lodge) on Isla Punta Pajaros. Playa Blanca offers world class facilities, a solid fishing (more…)

About a 3 hour drive south of Cancun, on the oceanside beach of the little fishing village of Punta Allen sits the Palometa Club. Its location is perfect for searching Ascension Bay for the fish it is famous for; bonefish, tarpon and the lodge’s namesake, permit (“palometa” is Spanish for permit). Anglers also find barracuda (more…)

Caribbean Wilderness Flats Fishing Espiritu Santo Bay Lodge (ESB), is a wilderness flats fishing destination specifically designed for serious saltwater fly fishers. ESB sits on a remote Caribbean beach in the southernmost part of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, just south of the sleepy lobster fishing village of Punta Herrero and within the massive 1.3 million acre (more…)

If one were to dream up the perfect location for a saltwater flats fishing lodge, it would be hard to find one better than on the private island of Punta Pajaros directly between Ascension Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay in the Mexican Yucatan (south of Cancun) in the middle of the Sian Ka’an Bioshpere. Casa (more…)