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| San Huberto Lodge and Estancia 3 Picos |
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Built with oak and local timber, Rio Quillen Lodge is located on a 45,000 acres cattle ranch, about 2 and 1/2 hours North from San Martin de los Andes Airport.
The beautiful and unique house overlooks the Quillen River valley, offering amazing views from most of the rooms, d inning room and living room with an incredible balcony & deck!
The main house offers 6 cozy bedrooms with private bathrooms, plus 2 log cabins with extra space for 6 guests. Common spaces are very functional and nicely decorated. The wooden floors and a big fire place in the living room add extra coziness and charm.
All inclusive style service, offering excellent cuisine with a nice home made touch served with nice Argentine wines, buffet style breakfast, after fishing snacks and bar, and more. |
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About 8 miles of the most crystal clear water of the Quillen River run through this ranch.
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| Famous among the dry fly fanatics, the Quillen offers a wide variety of water structure and bottoms providing a perfect habitat for a good population of rainbows and browns that are activelly feeding and rising through most of the season. |
| This big estancia provides also access to the Malaco and Caballadas (not open every season) spring creeks, and to the beautiful Quillen lake. |
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| THE QUILLEN RIVER is a moderate to small sized river. Weed beds flats, riffles, cut banks with deep pools, willow lines along some of the banks provide a variety of water and perfect habitat for trout. |
| Light tackle & Sight Fishing makes this river one of the favourite in the list. |
| Average trout run from 16 " to 20" but in many cases big browns (over 8 pounds) decide to take our small dries and test hooks and tippets to the limit! |
| Different hatches cycle around the day, but the evening ones can be just amazing, especially caddiss and big Goddard's. |
| A mix between sand, small gravel and mid size boulders can be find along most of the stretches we fish, which makes wadding very easy. |
| The access to the fishing areas is very easy and fast. Estimate 5 to 15 minutes |
| For those who enjoy hiking, The Malalco canyon offers one of the best sight fishing around the area, surrounded by incredible scenary and almost untouched waters. |
| Consider Late December, January and early February as prime time to fish the Quillen, although the fishing is good through the entire season. |
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Enter PHOTO GALLERY (Rio Quillen, The Lodge, Fishing, sceneries, more...) |
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Rio Quillen Lodge (Estancia Rio Quillen) |
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Private access to |
Quillenl River
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(10+ miles) |
Malalco Spring Creek |
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Caballadas Spring Creek (not every season) |
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Quillen lake |
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Accommodations |
6 double rooms in the main house + 2 log cabins (6 guests) |
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Wadding |
Very easy to easy. Mainly sand and thin gravel. Small rock areas are still OK. |
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Suggested tackle |
3wt - 5wt rods, WF-Floating lines |
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Expertise |
Everyone will enjoy this river. |
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Access to river |
Very Fast and easy using internal roads (from 5 to 15 minutes) |
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Location |
2+ hours away from Chapelco airport. |
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2 hour 40 minutes from San Martin de los Andes |
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4+ hour drive from Bariloche |
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Suggested Nights |
from 3-4 nights |
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Voltage |
220 v |
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Services |
Laundry, telephone, fax,very limited internet access (very slow dial-up) |
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Special |
Every day home made meals! |
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Other Activities |
Trekking, bird watching, horse back riding, bicycles, more |
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Float trips on the Alumine. |
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Fish Dry Flies in the Quillen lake from a motorboat. |
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Booking |
6 to 12 months ahead ! |
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Busier time is from December 24 until mid February |
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Low season rates |
(not every season, please ask!) |
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