872 | Fly Fishing Patagonia with Nicolas Rivero of Guides Patagonia
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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#872 Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/872
Presented by: Moccasin Fly Club
In this episode, I sat down with Nicolas Rivero to dig into fly fishing Patagonia. We covered the two-basin setup in Patagonia, the famous Limay River, giant brook trout in mountain lakes, and what a full April trip with Moccasin Fly Club looks like on the water.
If you're curious about swinging flies for migratory trout, fishing both lakes and rivers in one week, or planning your first Patagonia trip, this one's packed.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/872
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| 0:00.0 | Somewhere between the Andean rainforest and the high desert step, there's a stretch of water in |
| 0:06.8 | Patagonia that feels frozen in time. A place where browns still migrate like ghosts out of the |
| 0:12.2 | water where brook trout paint themselves in colors that shouldn't exist and where a single seam on |
| 0:17.6 | the Le Ma'i can turn a quiet morning into the kind of story that follows you home. |
| 0:21.9 | Last month on one of those seams, Nico Rivera watched a client through the perfect casts into the |
| 0:26.8 | wrong angle. The fly swung fine, but the big fish didn't move. Nico didn't blame the cast. He |
| 0:32.0 | blamed the presentation. Change the angle, make it escape, he said. Next cast same seam, but now the streamer came across the fish like a fleeing Puyen minnow, |
| 0:42.4 | a chrome-back rainbow erupted cartwheeling through the wind-scuffed surface. |
| 0:46.9 | This is the Webfly Swing podcast where we show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, |
| 0:51.3 | how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip, and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love. |
| 0:58.3 | Nico Rivera spends his year guiding both sides of Patagonia's Continental Divide, the Pacific |
| 1:03.6 | basin, thick with green forest and dragonfly hatches, and over to the Atlantic Basin, a high |
| 1:08.9 | desert corridor of migratory browns and rainbows, |
| 1:12.2 | mountain lakes, trophy brookies, it's all going, including the La Mai River, the famous LaMaya River, |
| 1:19.1 | that's got a lot of similarities to Montana in the west of the United States. |
| 1:24.9 | Over the next hour or so, we're going to dig into Patagonia's two basins |
| 1:29.2 | and how to fish these in this 40-mile radius. We're going to find out how Brookies explode on |
| 1:34.4 | streamer patterns and how April turns the Lomai into a migration highway for 10 to 15 pound trout. |
| 1:41.4 | We're going to get into swinging flies plus how they do it a little bit there. And also what moccas and fly club's adventure in April. The moxas and fly club adventure in April is going to look like. We're going to get into the full day trip, the full day and week trip there. All right. You get ready for this one. This one's going to be a big one. You can find Nico Rivera at guides patagonia.com. |
| 2:02.1 | Here he is, Nico Rivera. |
| 2:05.2 | How's it going, Nico? |
| 2:06.3 | Hi, Dave. Great. Thanks for having me here and happy to be talking to you. |
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