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Estancia Rio Quillen Lodge - a great setting and a incredible valley |
| San Huberto | Tipiliuke | Arroyo Verde | Rio Quillen | Collon Cura | Quemquemtreu |
Estancia Río Quillen...... |
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, dinning 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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The Fishing..... |
About 8 miles of the most crystal clear water of the Quillen River run through this ranch. 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 originated in the Andes Mountains. Flowing out from Quillen Lake heading south-west till it meets the Aluminé 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. |
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Light tackle & Sight Fishing makes this river one of the favourite in the list. |
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Average trout run from 16 " to 20" but in many cases big browns (over 6 pounds) decide to take our small dries and test hooks and tippets to the limit! |
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Different hatches cycle around the day, but the evening ones can be just amazing, especially caddiss and big Goddard's. |
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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. |
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The access to the fishing areas is very easy and fast. Estimate 5 to 15 minutes |
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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. |
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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...) | |
Rio Quillen Lodge (Estancia Rio Quillen) |
Private access to |
Quillenl River | ||
(10+ miles) |
Malalco Spring Creek | ||
| Caballadas Spring Creek (not every season) | |||
| Quillen lake | |||
Number of Rods |
12 max | ||
Accommodations |
6 double rooms in the main house + 2 log cabins (6 guests) | ||
Wadding |
Very easy to easy. Mainly sand and thin gravel. Small rock areas are still OK. | ||
Suggestet Tackle |
3wt - 5wt rods, WF-Floating lines | ||
Expertise |
Everyone will enjoy this river. | ||
| From de Middle of February on, it turns to be more technical due to the lower water level | |||
Access to river |
Very Fast and easy using internal roads (from 5 to 15 minutes) | ||
Location |
2+ hours away from Chapelco airport. | ||
| 2 hour 20 minutes from San Martin de los Andes | |||
| 4+ hour drive from Bariloche | |||
Suggested Nights |
from 3 to 4 nights | ||
Voltage |
220 v- self generated | ||
Services |
Laundry, telephone, fax,very limited internet access (very slow dial-up) | ||
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Every day home made meals! | ||
Other Activities |
Trekking, bird watching, horse back riding, bicycles, more | ||
| Float trips on the Alumine. | |||
| Fish Dry Flies in the Quillen lake from a motorboat. | |||
Booking |
6 to 12 months ahead ! | ||
| Busier time is from December 24 until mid February | |||
| Low season rates (not every season, please ask!) |