Flyfishing in Argentina Patagonia, Mesopotamia for Salmon, Trout and Dorado

Fly Fishing in Patagonia, for Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Brown Trout, Fontinalis Trout, Rainbow Trout, and Dorado in the Ibera Marshes

Fly fishing is a distinct and ancient angling method, most renowned as a method for catching trout and salmon, but employed today for a wide variety of game fish species including pike, bass, panfish, and carp, as well as saltwater marine species, such as redfish, snook, tarpon, bonefish and striped bass.

In fly fishing, fish are caught by using artificial flies that are cast with a fly rod and a fly line; the fly line (today, almost always coated with plastic) is heavy enough to send the fly to the target. It is accordingly immaterial that the fly is, for all practical purposes, weightless.

The artificial flies are created by tying hair, fur, feathers and other materials onto a hook with thread. The first flies were tied with natural materials, but synthetic materials are now extremely popular and prevalent in most flies. The flies are tied and material arranged in sizes and colors to match local terrestrial and aquatic insects, baitfish and other fish food attractive to the target fish species. Compared to other types of fishing rods, fly rods are very long and much lighter. Fly lines are heavier than regular fishing line, some made to float and some heavier to sink.

In fly fishing, flies are either fished on the surface or sub-surface. The most common type of surface fly is the dry fly. In dry-fly fishing, the fly floats on the surface of the water. The dry fly resembles an insect that might land or emerge on the water's surface, like a grasshopper, dragonfly, mayfly, stonefly or caddis fly.

Other surface flies include poppers, hair bugs, that might resemble mice, frogs or crayfish etc. Sub-Surface flies are fished to resemble a wide variety of prey from aquatic larvae, nymphs and pupae, baitfish, crayfish, leeches, worms, crabs, etc. Sub-surface flies commonly fall into one of the following categories: nymphs, wet flies, streamers or emergers.

Another category of fly is the attractor. Attractors do not resemble anything in particular, but may suggest a lot of different types of fish prey. Attractor flies may be surface or sub-surface flies.