Cinco Rios Lodge
Completed in 2008, Cinco Rios Lodge is a great new base for exploring the rivers of the Coyhaique area. It is a full service lodge that can accomodate up to twelve guests. Each room has two beds and a private bath.
The Great Room invites guests to relax, swap fish stories, and make plans for the next day's angling. Also located in the main building is the main dining room where both breakfast and dinner are served. Guests prepare their individual stream side lunches and meet for social hour after fishing.
Peaceful and secluded, the Rio Simpson area is a bird watcher's paradise for Andean condors, Chilean Southern - ringed kingfishers, eagles, ibis, torrent ducks and parakeets.
Indigenous wild plants abound; bamboo, fuchsia, lilies, honeysuckle, nasturtium, lupine and mammoth rhubarb only begin the list. Nature's wonders abound for fly fishers, photographers and hikers.
You encounter glaciers, tropical flowers and temperate rain forests without the dangers of poisonous snakes, spiders and other creepy crawlies.
The streams offer diverse fishing; incredible, exciting dry fly action; and, challenging sight fishing in pristine, clear waters. Some brown trout, only accessible by jet boat because of limited roads, have never seen a dry fly. Browns average 18 inches; many are larger.
Cinco Rio's guides are both native Chilean and Americans and each have several years experience guiding in the region. Equipment includes new jet powered boats, rubber rafts with high back seats, Zodiacs with jet engines and good vehicles with trailers to reach all the waters we will fish.
On your way to the nearby rivers and lakes, you may encounter local huasos driving their cattle or sheep along the road or into the hills. You might think you are lost in the wild west of days gone by until you realize a huaso may shuttle your boat with his oxen.
A typical fishing itinerary would be as follows:
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2 to 3 days on the Paloma river and its tributaries: the Rio Azul, Rio Megote, and the Elizalde Outlet.
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2 days on the upper and lower Rio Simpson. The upper Simpson is a walk-in trip and the lower Simpson a float trip.
Other options include fishing small lakes such as Lago Pollux and Lago Frio for large rainbows up to 30+ inches. You will be able to fish some new small spring creeks the guides discovered last year. You will also be able to fish the Rio Blanco, Rio Deseque, Rio Pica Flora, Rio Nireguao and Rio Manihuales. All the fishing is within an hour from our location with most trips being shorter. A good portion of the fishing will be with dry flies such as big beetles and grasshoppers.
| 2011-2012 Season Rates (per person) | Double Occupancy | Single Occupancy |
| 7 nights / 6 days guided fishing | $3,975.00 | $4,975.00 |
| Season: | November - April. |
| Capacity: | 12 guests. |
| Getting there: | Via Balmaceda airport then by land to the lodge - about a 40 minute drive. |
| Length of stay: | Saturday to Saturday. |
| Other things to do: | Hiking, mountain biking, horse trekking, sightseeing. |
