I just returned from a trip down to Argentina and Chile. I have many images to sort through and edit but I find the images I’m most interested in seeing when I get home are the images I take of people.
Gaucho near Aluminé, Argentina. He was in his Sunday best and was cooking a lamb over an open fire and coals when I took this shot.
Lalo, on a beautiful and warm early fall evening on Argentina's Chimehuin River.
La Machina. This is my favorite guide rig ever.
The Take
Simpson River Valley
The days are long in Patagonia during the summer months. There's hazy predawn light just after 5:15 am and it's easy to be on the water with plenty of light to see at 10:30 pm. When the days are warmer in late December and early January there is an evening hatch and it's worth postponing dinner until 11:15 or so and that Chilean wine tastes even better after having witnessed sippers eating caddis and mayflies...
A well prepped moment during an evening hatch. Angler John Mullen got the right idea from Chilean guide Pancho Salas.
I just got back from a trip down to the Chilean side of Patagonia. I'll be posting many images in the days to come from the trip. I stayed at Los Torreones Lodge with Pancho Salas and his family who let me into their day to day lives. The trip was incredible beyond just the fishing and without the kindness and generosity of Pancho's entire family I would never have seen many aspects of life in Patagonia.
A typical Patagonia dirt road near Los Torrenes Lodge.
Guide Sebastian Salas, after putting us on a rising rainbow, rowed the pontoon boat over to a patch of sweet yellow raspberries. Sebastian was born and raised in the Simpson River Valley in Patagonia. He is one of three brothers who guide this area.
When something needs to get done, it gets done. Pancho Salas gives his son Sebastian a hand at shoeing a horse.
The ubiquitous ibises. Their call could be and can be heard from all over Chilean Patagonia.
Matte. While it's not as de rigueur as in Argentina, it's still consumed a bunch in Patagonia.
Pancho Salas nets a rainbow at the end of a great and long Chilean summer day.
