Heli Fly Fishing The Andes Backcountry

Puma Lodge offers biking, climbing, trekking, heli skiing during winter and hiking or snowshoeing. This Hidden Lodge in the central Andes valleys of Chile will be our refuge for 5 full fishing days. The beauty of the surrounding landscape is celebrated with locally inspired design and décor, while expansive floor plans, luxurious amenities and plush bedding create the perfect mountain retreat. Located on the first floor next to the terrace, its rustic yet elegant restaurant serves authentic Chilean specialties and international dishes perfectly accompanied.

We will go deep into Andean mountain landscapes, enjoying angling in areas that
remain unexplored along the Chilean Central Andes. Due to the area’s high and
jagged terrain and the sharpness of the surrounding gorges, there are hidden lagoons
and valleys with lush vegetation, ideal conditions for catching brown and rainbow trout,
which feed mainly on nymphs. The experience just gets more and more interesting
once we reach the border with Argentina. Andean mountain spring creeks house huge
trout that are incomparably powerful, feature acquired due to the extreme conditions
they live in, where only the strongest survive. Baits used are large stonefly and
ephemera or mayfly nymphs, at dead drift… you must only observe how the line is
tensing and cutting the upstream water to know there’s a fish at its end.