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Estancia Cameron's recently refurbished lodge sits on a bluff with a great view over the Darwin Range and less than one hundred yards from the Río Grande. The Estancia has about fifty kilometers of frontage on the north side of the Río Grande (all the way down stream to the Argentinean border), with Ted Turner's Estancia San José neighboring on the "other side of the fence". Cameron's water is almost identical to their downriver neighbor's section, for those who have already fished there.

It's a beautiful place, surrounded by wooded hillsides, with the snowy Darwin Range overlooking the region. The wildlife and birds are much more plentiful than on the Argentinean side - on any given day, it's not unusual to see hundreds of grazing guanacos, or observe dozens of magnificent condors soaring overhead and blue eagles hunting for Magelan geese in flight. You will especially enjoy the solitude of having this splendid fishery to yourself, with the chance of fishing yet unnamed pools where few outsiders have ever cast a fly!

It's an excellent river for flyfishing, sometimes more challenging and rewarding than downstream in Argentina, due to the different techniques and finesse that have to be employed. The water is much clearer, and maintains it's clarity, even in higher flows. The fishing is also rewarding because there's always action.

In this section of the river sea run browns average ten pounds, with fish up to eighteen/twenty pounds. On occasion we'll even land really huge fish, well over twelve kilos (twenty six pounds)! Unlike the lower Argentinean section of the river, there are also resident river browns up to six pounds, beautifully colored fish that readily take flies.

In addition, anglers will find some healthy, lake run browns the shape of rugby balls, that enter the river from the Blanco lake for our enjoyment. And, completing the "Grand Slam", there are rainbows too. You will see them some meters from you, down stream, feeding on the aquatic insects you kick up from the bottom of the river. It's something to be seen!

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