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Back home now on the upper sac rafting & fly fishing and the fish are on the surface! Check out some our great fly fishing adventures from last season! Patagonia Chile - November through May, we lead fly fishing & tours in Chile and Argentina Another great season with my gal by my side! Carola and I would like to thank the folks who visited Chile, Belize and Argentina this past year and used our services to outfit their vacation travels. This is our 16th year of outfitting internationally and we are pleased by the numbers of you who contact us regularly for information on fly fishing, tours and lodging. We would also like to share with you that we are committed to finding the best places for you to fly fish and vacation at affordable prices and of course always the best food. As we enter into this new era, we want to earn your repeat and referral business and we know by providing the best experience at a great price, one client at a time, we will continue to earn your trust. Thank you for considering Jack Trout International Fly Fishing & Tours. We hope to see you this year in Northern California or Northern Patagonia, in either direction, we're here to serve your highest expectations. Many Rivers to You, Jack & Carola Trout 
Puerto Varas, Chile our new second home! Thanks to Puerto Varas and all the hotels, shops and restaurants that refer clients our way! It's a great town with a lot of glamour, beautiful views and a tourist flare. It was so fun guiding people as far away as, Iceland, Norway, Germany, Austria and Salt Lake City, Utah! Surrounded by great rivers, lakes and amazing volcanoes, Puerto Varas is a truly unique place on the planet and I am happy to say that about 5 to 6 months a year, I live here now with my Chilean soon to be bride Carola! jt 
We decided one Sunday to head out on the Rio Maullin and try our luck! Any day out with Carola is lucky for me. To finally share all this magic with someone else is like a prize for me... 
On our days off from guiding we love to head back out on the water and fish n float! 
Right then a trout bites and Carola is off to the races!! 
A great battle indeed, a nice medium sized Atlantic Salmon wild here in the crystal waters of the Rio Maullin. 
Brendan came and was on a mission that day to catch a few trout while dad tried his luck up stream. We waded the pocket water in one section and it wasn't too long before a nice rainbow appeared engulfing Brendan's fly and taking him on a long ride down river. A nice catch for a deserving North American guy! Your first trout caught in Chile fly fishing, tell me how does that feel?!?! 
Sweet! BRENDAN ASHTON OF SALT LAKE CITY UTAH, YOU'RE MY SIZZLER OF THE WEEK AWARD WINNER!! CONGRATULATIONS SIZZLER!!! 
Dad's turn! Dad's name is Cort, what a great time Cort had fighting these hard fighting trout! 
Way to go, another trout on small flies. "What a fun river this is", Cort said. 
In another location more trout were caught, and Brendan seized the moment by landing almost all that were hooked. 
This is our cabin we offer on the banks of the Rio Maullin, every night trout rise like clock work right out in front. It's a real charmer for those of you who like catching trout on dries and enjoy views that are nice on the eyes. 
Lets catch the ferry barge across to the Isle de Chiloe! Is that Mr. Bo jangles I see...? Mr. Bo jangles > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUxW-nnvKA
The trick on the barge is you only have 35 minutes to prepare lunch, eat, and put everything away. On this day, everything was packed into one guide day, we needed to eat on the run, as one would say... So we before-hand prepared this typical Chilean dish called Pichangas. (Chile modismo/ slang-word meaning: HEART STOPPER) It is made with french fries, 3 different types of sausages, and cheese. Everyone loved it and we ate up as the vessel made its way across the small canal that separated the main island of Chile from the 300 so odd miles of the Isle de Chiloe. A marvelous place I've been to over and over and now share with our tourist folks visiting Chile and don't necessarily want to fish every day. Yummy!! Don't forget the ketchup man! 
Once over on the Island, the trip becomes magical as the island is unique in so many ways and unbelievable scenic beauty is in every direction. Yea you could say I would highly recommend visiting the Isle de Chiloe when coming to Southern Chile.
The towns are fantastic, everyone is really into painting their houses in wild colors as to stand out and be proud that one is from the Isle de Chiloe. Houses painted in purple with green trim, or bright pink and trimmed in blue. It's a colorful place with a pride that extends back as far the 1500's when the first Spanish Conquistadors landed here and were fought off with that same kind of pride found painted on the exteriors of these native style homes found dotting the coastline and rolling green hills throughout the island. 
Because life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. And like a fistful of sand, it can slip right through your hands. Young hearts be free tonight!
What a romantic place to be with a loved one! 
The Ashton's loved it so much, they just kept commenting on what a wonderful day they were having! 
Then we made it to the penguin beach and got to kiss a penguin! 
Before long we were off on a small boat that would take us out to where the little penguin guys laid out and drank A&W Root beer by the gallons! That's why they walk around like they do and have a full belly, all full of A&W Root beer.... There they were, some of the penguins from Antarctica and others were from Peru, up and down the southern coastline for their root beer floats. 
A sea-otter eating a delicious crab sprawled out on a rock... 
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc 
Then when we got back a small boat of fishermen had caught all these king crabs and were selling them on the beach! 
I bought a cooler full of king crab for around $15 USD, enough to eat king crab every night for 3 nights straight. It was a so delicious and rich!! I think I could eat king crab almost any night of my life and boy were they so good. All we did is just boil them, they had a natural butter flavor and a lot of meat in each leg. The views never stop! The island is mysterious and mystic, green and rolling. Accessible and small, yet so many areas seemed to feel newly discovered because of the lack of other tourist at places that seemed to be so special and unique in the world. jt 
Crimson and clover, over and over... 
Jack, Thank you so much for the excellent trip we had in the South of Chile. It was apparent from the first phone call that we were in good hands. Your subsequent emails and phone calls helped removed some of the mystery regarding fly fishing in Chile. You and Carola are excellent hosts. We appreciated your genuine concern for us and how you went out of your way to help us with every detail of our trip. I especially appreciated you recognizing the needs of my "non-fishing" spouse, and arranging for Carola to help her with a shopping day in Puerto Montt. Our guided adventure into the island of Chiloe was amazing. I only wished we had more time to continue to explore that beautiful place you are fortunate to call your part time home. Thanks for everything. If you have some pics of our time you could forward, that would be great. (I need proof of the steelhead for my jealous fishing buddies). Cort Cortlund Ashton Vice President Cottonwood Title Insurance Agency, Inc. 1996 East 6400 South, Suite 120 Salt Lake City, UT 84121
2009 PRIVATE UPPER SACRAMENTO FLY FISHING - RAFTING TRIP!!
Well we're back in Mt Shasta now and running the Upper Sac Fly Fishing - Raft Trip!! Hope to see you out here in the fly fishing water crafts. Right off the bat we saw huge Stone Flies! Jerry and Kevin Moison were ready for a great day.It's always great when a father and son can get out and share a day to remember together. 
We had two rafts that day and we headed down the Upper Sac whose waters flowed perfect that day. 
The other boat hooked and landed a trout and all were happy. 
Jerry got out and waded a little on this nice edge. We stopped down a little further down and waded some more but the fishing in the morning was kind of slow. Maybe because it was the first day of warm weather in a long time, the fish were waiting for the mid day sun and hatches to appear. 
Sure enough as it warmed up the hatches appeared and the fish were more active. 
Jerry Moison with his first Upper Sac hook-up of the season. 
The boat with Stan Poitras and John hooked up soon after... 
Stanley hook a trout using a huge salmon fly on the surface and managed to land this fine trout! 
Nice indeedy! The big dry fly right in the yapper.. 
Lunch was served! A wonderful meal if I don't say so myself. Gnocchi served with shrimp in a pesto - alfredo sauce on top of butter lettuce and fresh parmesan cheese. Clients thought it was awesome. 
After that it was Kevin's turn to hook a beauty! 
There it was, out floating on near the surface as Kevin made a reel turn, it ran again!! 
A nice Upper Sacramento River Trout, guided by Jack Trout Guide Service. Maybe we can find one of these for you! 
Kevin Sizzler, way to go! Look at that fine red line, like racing colors... 
Now that's what I'm talking about! Another great season on the Upper Sac out in my rafts, maybe it's you my friend... I hope to see you out here! Many Rivers to You, Jack & Carola Trout (530) 926-4540 Jack Trout Fly Fishing & Guide Service P.O. Box 94 Mt. Shasta, CA 96067 (530) 926-4540 Email: info@jacktrout.com Website: http://www.jacktrout.com/
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April 27th, 2009 
