Kau Tapen Lodge

The fishing schedule, of approximately 9 hours; is split in to two sessions – a morning session and an evening session. The morning session typically starts just after breakfast and you will fish until around 13.00 where lunch will be served back at the lodge. After lunch, you may enjoy a siesta and prepare for the evening session which will typically start around 17.00 and fish until dusk. In the months of December and January this will normally be a little later to capitalise on the magical dusk fishing hours. The average drive is 15 minutes from the lodge to the pool, taken on well-kept dirt roads. At least once during the week, you will also have the opportunity to fish the Menendez River and we would say, a river not to miss!

With 10 rods and 6 guides; you will typically rotate your guide each day. This leads to fishing a wide range of different techniques that may not only help you land that dream fish on this trip; but also open possibilities when fishing your local waters.

The middle section of the Rio Grande contains the majority of the holding water where the sea trout will remain until spawning time, making the Kau Tapen hard to beat. Along with very accessible pools, extremely easy wading due to the fine gravel and slow flow of the river; fishing these waters gives every chance of hooking and landing that fish of a lifetime. The Rio Grande winds it way across the landscape, creating undercut banks where large sea trout love to lie to keep out of the strong sunlight. Typically, the sea trout seem to lie near cut banks during the middle of the day, though in low water, you will also eagerly find them in the faster necks of pools. Then as dusk approaches, the fish will move from the cut banks and into the middle of the pools and prepare to aggressively take your fly. Many a tale has been told about “that” fish.