Opening Day & Tornadoes
We kicked off mid-April with a beautiful weekend for the opening of trout season. Pictured here is our most popular fishing spot on opening day, the Benton Dam. Then the following week, just so we don't become too complacent, Mother Nature threw tornados (tornados in PA, you say?) at us in the middle of the night. 
Our little town of Benton, having just recovered from a devastating flood last summer, was now devastated again with tornados. Our lovely Mill Race Golf Course was just about obliterated, barns torn apart, homes lost or damaged, beautiful 100 year old trees uprooted like pick-up sticks. Everyone was without power for days and it felt like a war zone. Luckily no lives were lost.
So now we are trying to get back to normal, but we're not sure what normal is anymore!
Here, we're busy getting out fly orders, lots of Hendricksons and March Browns are rushing out the door so we can tell that the spring hatches are in full bloom here in the east. Trout lilies and Dutchmen's Britches are blooming, fish are rising, it's a beautiful time to be outside and we hope you are making time for spring fishing. It won't last long.
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Tres Valles, Argentina
Tres Valles, Argentina, in the fall (their spring) is beautiful with full rivers, hungry fish, and snow capped mountains. Easy wading, float trips, spring creeks, small rivers, lakes. It's the fly fisherman's dream destination. You may not be a lake fisherman, we weren't either until we got to Argentina. Lakes are different here, clear, cold, with hatches and big fish. With spectacular scenery and rising fish, lakes here can be a lot of fun.
But there are also pretty little spring creeks with browns and rainbows that will surprise you (and fill up the net), small rivers where an Adams dry fly and a PT nymph will catch fish all day long, float trips through beautiful canyons, and walk wading small rivers.
This is a small lodge, only 4 guest rooms, with big variety! Come with us to this special destination, December 5-16, 2019. Includes a day in Buenos Aires, our favorite city. See the details.
Villa Maria, Tierra del Fuego
We're very excited to have a week at Estancia Villa Maria in Tierra del Fuego next March 13-20, for sea-run brown trout. This small, 6-guest, lodge is sold out annually and for years to come. It is only by a stroke of luck that we were able to get a week here and it may not happen again.
If you have Tierra del Fuego on your bucket list, come along with us to this very special destination. It will be a trip that you won't soon forget!
Photos https://barrybeck.photoshelter.com/gallery/Villa-Maria-Lodge/G0000B5IQEqsCa28/C0000jGQJ2sR7aVI
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8P3df4kTQI
The Top 3 Reasons to go to Tres Valles from Barry
