"Dave LaCourse" wrote


Bottom line, Larry, a diy in Chile should be easy with proper and
early planning. Everything you need can be had in Coihaique. The
people are friendly and very helpful. A good spanish vocabulary would
be a plus, of course, but I think the average dumb
one-language-American could get by with an English/Spanish dictionary,
and a knowledge of some common phrases.

Do a diy, Larry, and I'll help you with a diy roff clave in 2010.
Gotta get back to that bakery........




Thanks for taking the time to post, Dave



I'm not certain it will happen ( are we certain about anything in the
future? ) because of personal restrictions

but

the "plan" is to do a first one next season

I've ordered but yet to receive the first two levels of RosetaStone Spanish
( Latin America ) and plan to dedicate an hour a day to study via my shiny
new laptop this summer, hopefully progressing enough to justify getting the
last level, too.

I think I'll fly my WaterMaster down with me ( the AEG "trout bums" took WMs
for their video and seemed to get good use from them ) for a watercraft.
Should fly well as excess baggage, designed for it. What I've heard of the
actual fishing, from you and others, doesn't make it seem like my favorite
type ( think HFork/Silver Creek) ... but I used to fish stillwaters a lot
and enjoy them ( not to mention that they hold the biggest fish, on
average )

I'm leaning, based on current research levels, on flying into Argentina and,
mainly, fishing on that side of the border.

My intention is to make the first year's trip about a month to six weeks
long .... the fishing budget corner of my brain seems to work on a
dollars/day basis and it's hard to justify a shorter stay while thinking in
that mode.

As I've hinted before, I'm looking for a yearly trip and a type of
semi-ex-pat lifestyle for the months Dec-May. I'm investigating New
Zealand, too, but the chance to escape all the things I want to escape seems
better in Patagonia. If I had your money, I'd look for small homes in
eastern Idaho and Patagonia and split my time between them .... I'm not
really 'into' fly fishing travel as much as I am into spending as much of my
remaining time as I can in places that suit my 'soul' ..... it just happens
that trout often seem to like the same type neighborhoods G