Collón Cura River, by Jorge Trucco

We are happy to offer yet another fishing destination: Estancia Collón Cura. Although this may be the latest addition to our program, Patagonia Outfitters and Estancia Collón Cura go a very long way back to the 70's and 80's.
Back then, the Collón Cura River puzzled me. The small fly fishing fraternity of Argentina almost disregarded it for it was too large a river and the fish were not as huge as those of the Boca of the Chimehuín.
However, it was on a float trip back in 1979 with A. J. De Rosa and Patty Reilly when I realized the full potential the Collón Cura River really had for the international fly fisherman.
At the time, Estancia Collón Cura did not have a lodge or any form of accommodation nearby, therefore it only became an extremely successful part of our town program.
Estancia Collón Cura has a sentimental meaning for me as well. For it was also there that my waterfowl experience began when Suzie Fitzgerald encouraged me to run a goose hunting operation convincing sportsmen such as Guillermo "Bill" Farfán, Jack Upchurch and Tom Callahan to try my new program at face value. This first experience was an absolute success and that was the beginning of a sequence that has finally bloomed into our world class, five star, Blind Ambition Wing shooting duck program (www.blindambitionwingshooting.com) .

Estancia Collón Cura seems to have been the place where I took many of my first steps in different directions for it was also there that my first two Fly Fishing the World TV shows (Barrett Productions) were filmed. Celebrities for these first shows being no other than famous fly fishing writer, Art Lee and actor and friend, Michael Keaton.

Estancia Collón Cura shines for the extremely easy and immediate access (through a well planned road combination) to the best stretches of the Collón Cura River. I may also say that fishing in the Collón Cura River is much better today than it was 30 years ago. Not only do we have the numbers of fish we had in the past, but we also have the sizes of the monster browns that dwell in the lower Piedra del Águila Reservoir and swim into the Collón Cura River to feed or spawn (read article: April Browns).

I have spent 15 years of my life scouting Estancia Collón Cura both in summer (for trout) and in winter (for geese and quail) and I cherish priceless memories that I will never forget.