Beetle mania is a season-long phenomenon on the glacial rivers feeding the river/lake systems of Chile’s Region XI. In large part thanks to a proliferation of cute Cantaria beetles (picture a crossbreed of Steve Buscemi and a scorpion). Here, a look at the dry-fly opportunities in the surrounding areas of the Cinco Rios and Estancia del Zorro Lodges, both located in the heart of Chilean Patagonia.

 

Tom Bie
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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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