Estancia Collón Cura Lodge

Estancia Collón Cura Lodge in northern Patagonia, Argentina, offers 22 private miles along the world-famous Collón Cura River. This river is renowned as a productive rainbow and brown trout fishery that is especially friendly to novice fly anglers while still providing a challenge for veteran anglers seeking the river’s largest trout. Estancia Collón Cura Lodge guests fish from drift boats and rafts or use them for transportation between the easily waded riffles and runs. Renovated in early 2025, the lodge sits on the east bank of the Collón Cura River and is easily accessible from the San Martín de los Andes and Bariloche airports.

Estancia Collón Cura Lodge welcomes up to 10 anglers at a time in luxurious accommodations set on an 86,000-acre private ranch. With its great location and unmatched private access on the lower Collón Cura River, this lodge is ideal for novice to expert anglers and pairs well with other northern Patagonia lodges for anglers planning ahead.

Guests at Estancia Collón Cura Lodge stay in two standalone buildings — the Main Lodge and the Guest House — both renovated in 2025 and beautifully appointed. The Main Lodge consists of 3 large double bedrooms on a single floor, each with a private bathroom and access to a comfortable common living room. The Guest House has 2 double bedrooms with an ensuite bathroom and its own sitting area. Throughout both buildings, furnishings and finishes reflect a level of care and attention rarely found outside five-star properties — this is Patagonia hospitality at its finest.

A third building holds a convivial gathering room for cocktails, appetizers, asados, and fishing tales. Breakfasts are continental-style, lunches are served streamside during fishing days, and dinners are late, multi-course feasts built around local meats, fresh salads, vegetables, and excellent Argentine wines.

Non-anglers are equally well catered for, with horseback rides and hikes across the ranch, birding, and day trips to the charming mountain town of San Martín de los Andes just a short drive away. Tucked within the surrounding ranch, Estancia Collón Cura Lodge is extremely private — guests are looked after as if they were family.

The Collón Cura River is a large freestone river set in an expansive valley that, at times, feels reminiscent of rural parts of the northern Rockies. Unlike most rivers in Patagonia, the Collón Cura consistently provides excellent fishing from December through May. Brown and rainbow trout averaging 16–18 inches are most common, and guests can expect to catch double-digit numbers of fish each day. The Collón Curá has hatches of mayflies, caddis, and the famous green worms that fall from overhanging willow branches. Streamer fishing is productive in February and March during the annual minnow run, when millions of juvenile pejerrey patagónico and puyen chico migrate into the Collón Curá from the lake. The trout gorge on these minnows, often breaking the water in an aggressive feeding frenzy. In the fall months of March through May, trout key in on grasshoppers, and trophy migratory brown and rainbow trout return to the Collón Cura from the Alicurá Reservoir.

Over the course of a single day, guests will fish long riffles, shallow gravel bars, steep drop-offs, cutbanks, and even challenging willow-lined side channels. Anglers float comfortably in drift boats, fishing as they go and often stopping to prospect promising-looking water on foot. Depending on the day and interests of the anglers, Estancia Collón Cura Lodge guides cover various lengths of river, utilizing the lodge’s many private access points.

Collón Cura offers 4-7 night stays. When planned a year in advance, we pair Estancia Collón Cura Lodge with another lodge in the area to create a customized and dynamic program.

ESTANCIA COLLON CURA LODGE
(4 nights; 3 days fishing)

Day 1:     Arrive Buenos Aires (EZE). Transfer to the domestic airport (AEP) and fly to San Martin (CPC). The Collon Cura Lodge staff will pick you up and transfer you  little over an hour to the ranch. Fish the afternoon if you have time.

Day 2-4:     3 days float fishing the Collon Cura River.

Day 5:     Check out. The staff will transfer you back to the San Martin airport or to your next fishing lodge.

Rate: $5400/angler

Included:  Both lodging and guided fishing in double occupancy, rod and reel, meals, open bar, non-guided fishing activities on the property and shopping tours,  and transfers to/from San Martin Airport and San Martin hotels.

Not included:  Flights, single fishing guides ($220/day),  fishing license (~$40/day paid on site),  wader rental ($35/day), flies, laundry, gratuities, select guided non-fishing activities such as golf, birding and wine tasting, transfers to/from the Bariloche Airport, services in Buenos Aires.

With over 26 years organizing trips in Chile and Argentina, we make travel planning efficient and worry free. We’ll give you the domestic flights you need for your lodge dates and our travel team ensures your international flights connect smoothly. If preferred, we’ll even have our team in Buenos Aires meet you when you land.

• After an easy overnight flight, anglers land at the Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport (EZE), transfer 45 minutes to the Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery Domestic Airport (AEP) and fly 2 hours south to San Martin (CPC.) Four hours minimum is required between your international and domestic flights in Buenos Aires.
• Anglers are picked up at the San Martin Airport and driven 1 hour to Collon Cura Lodge.
• Anglers are either transferred to their next lodge or dropped off at the San Martin Airport for their flight back to Buenos Aires and home.