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A different water every day, dry flies and sight fishing for wild trout: that was Carlos's All Inclusive week out of Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia, in the 2025–26 season. Carlos is an angler from Argentina. The four photos here show three brown trout, one of them very golden, and a rainbow.
- When: the 2025–26 season, one full week.
- Where: Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia. A different water every day.
- Program: All Inclusive, one full week.
- Angler: Carlos, from Argentina.
- Fish: wild trout. In the photos, brown trout and a rainbow.
- Technique: dry flies and sight fishing.
What did Carlos fish during his All Inclusive week out of Coyhaique?
Dry flies and sight fishing, on a different water every day, all out of Coyhaique. The trout were wild, and the photos show what the week looked like: clear river water, forest and rocky hills.
Three of the four photos were taken from a boat with knee braces, and in one Carlos is wading a rocky river. The fish are three brown trout, one of them very golden, and a rainbow.
What is sight fishing with a dry fly?
It is casting a dry fly to a trout you have already seen. Joe's sight fishing days on a Coyhaique lake explain it.
To tell whether a trout is eating on the surface or just under it, see how to read a trout rise. For the same game on moving water, read our spring creek sight-presentation guide. And for a dry-fly day on a lake, another client's sight fishing day on a clear lake shows it.
Why are the trout around Coyhaique so wild?
Because they are wild: the trout around Coyhaique sustain themselves by natural reproduction, with no hatchery stocking in the waters we fish. Brown and rainbow trout were introduced to Chile more than a century ago. A river-born trout that has spent its whole life holding in current and hunting for a living is a different athlete from a hatchery fish: its runs are usually longer, and the fight lasts. We explain more in why the trout here are so wild and aggressive.
That was Carlos's week: the thrill of the dry fly, and a first-hand look at how wild the trout of Coyhaique are. We release every trout we land, all season; the Aysén fishing rules explain what the law asks of a foreign angler.
What does an All Inclusive week out of Coyhaique include?
Seven nights, six full days of guided fly fishing out of Coyhaique. Saturday to Saturday, fishing Sunday through Friday. Includes local partner accommodation, all meals, 4x4 transport, bilingual guiding, catarafts, flies and the Sernapesca licence. Price: USD 6,500 per angler, for the full seven nights. Up to 2 anglers per date. One group at a time.
- 4x4 ground transport and daily transfers
- Local partner accommodation
- All meals and drinks
- Professional bilingual guiding
- Catarafts
- Flies and tying materials
- Sernapesca fishing licence
Not included: international and domestic flights to Balmaceda, travel and medical insurance, gratuities, and personal gear (rods, lines, waders, boots, polarized glasses).
That is how a different water every day works: we fish rivers and lakes around Coyhaique, and from catarafts where the water calls for them. Which water to fish on a given day is the guide's call, made that morning from flow and wind. You can see what each river is doing on our live water conditions page, and the waters themselves are in the best fly fishing waters around Coyhaique.
What dry flies work around Coyhaique?
Beetles, hoppers and caddis may bring trout to the surface, while wind, temperature and flow still decide the timing and the presentation. Our guide to the best dry flies for Coyhaique lists what goes in the box. For the whole season, see summer fly fishing in Chilean Patagonia.
Dry flies can also work early in the season, when the day lines up. On October 16, 2026, a Full Day client sight fished brown and rainbow trout with a foam dry fly on a clear lake. Our guided season runs October 12 - April 30.
How do you book an All Inclusive week out of Coyhaique?
Start with the booking page: pick your dates, up to two anglers per date, one group at a time. What the All Inclusive costs, and what is not in it, is in what a fly fishing trip to Chilean Patagonia costs. How you get to Coyhaique and Balmaceda airport is in getting to Coyhaique.
Carlos came to us from Argentina. If you are weighing the two countries, our guide to fly fishing in Chile compares them. Prefer to see another week first? Two anglers from Colorado fished a January All Inclusive week out of Coyhaique.
