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Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report 15th January 2024
Finally, the wait is over! Villa María Lodge has kicked off its 2024 season. We have found the river in optimal fishing conditions, with a good water level (perhaps a little low for the beginning of the season), clear water, and temperatures ranging between 8 to 12 degrees Celsius. This temperature range is considered optimal for seeking the highly prized Sea […]
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Villa Maria Fishing Report 23rd March 2023
The conditions of last week were very similar to what happened in the previous week. The river was already high and colored due to the rain, snowfall, and thaws in the headwaters of the system when we started fishing. Throughout the week, the water level slowly dropped and cleared. However, in the middle of the week, we received another pulse […]
Villa Maria Lodge End of Season Fishing Report 20th May 2022
2022 has been a very special and delightful season at Villa Maria. Since 2020 COVID halted the world, we were not able to open for 2021 season and after a long and endless wait, we were able to reopen this year! We did enjoy a season in full satisfaction, welcoming old-time friends that were waiting to come back and new […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report 4th April 2022
This was the last week of our Villa Maria fishing season and definitely the most challenging of all in 2022. On the first day, we found the river was high and brown due to the different showers we had in the previous week, plus the melting of the first snowfall on the Andes. So for a couple of days, we […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report 24th March 2022
The 10th week of the 2022 season at Villa Maria Lodge started with higher and coloured water. It was not a surprise as we were expecting some changes due to the rain we had the prior week all along the Rio Grande valley and its headwaters. The bump in the level was quite substantial, but we have to remember that […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report 11th February 2022
In our Midseason week, the weather presented stable and predictable and very similar to the previous week. No rain, a day or two of hard winds but warm and pleasant evenings. The river remained at the same level as the week before with no significant changes in temperature or clarity. We have to remember that the week before the river […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report Week 9: 28th – 5th March 2020
Week nine at Villa Maria Lodge is in the books with some amazing fish hitting the banks! If you missed last weeks report from Villa Maria, you can find it here. We started our 9th week of the season with pleasant weather, clear river conditions and winds coming out of the North and NE depending on the day. In […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report Week 8: 21th – 27th February 2020
Week eight at Villa Maria Lodge is in the books with another group of old and new friends. If you missed last weeks report from Villa Maria, you can find it here. Continuing the usual patterns of the 2020 season, this week started with tough conditions due to higher flows coming down from the upstream reaches of the Rio Grande. […]
Villa Maria Lodge Fishing Report Week 7: 14th – 20th February 2020
At the midway point of our 12 week season at Villa Maria, we were excited to welcome back Henrik, Jonni, Mark, and John along with a few new faces, Dan, Andrew, and Charlie. The first morning we rigged up small flies with long leaders and lighter tips, as the river was getting to its lowest and clearest we’d seen all […]
