Pira Lodge - Overview

Location: Argentina - Located in Argentina's northern province of Corrientes.

Season: The lodge is open year-round but the prime season is January-April.

Capacity: 10 guests

Pira Lodge is the world's first truly upscale fishing lodge to target the freshwater dorado, fly fishing's most exciting new game fish. Located in Argentina's northern province of Corrientes, Pira enjoys a tropical climate throughout its long eight-month fishing season, which begins in September and runs through April. Pira is set apart from other dorado fishing lodges because of its superior accommodations, knowledgeable staff and strategic location on the shore of the Ibera Marshland. This vast wetland occupies more than 3,000,000 acres and offers the world's only possibility for dorado fishing in crystal-clear waters. These ideal conditions allow anglers to sight-fish for cruising dorado with top-water floating lines, a technique that produces explosive, heart-stopping strikes.

Pira was co-founded by the owners of the world-renowned sea-run brown trout lodge, Kau-Tapen. Over the years, Kau-Tapen has proved itself to be one of the world's elite fishing lodges due to its excellence in cuisine, service and quality of its fishery. Pira has been modeled after Kau-Tapen, emphasizing these very same standards, and will rank among the most select fishing lodges around the world. Today, Kau-Tapen and its sister lodges, Villa Maria, Toon-Ken, and Bella Vista (on the Rio Gallegos), are enjoying the enormous successes of a fishery that only a decade ago remained undiscovered. Similarly, Pira has its sights set on a fishery that has enormous potential but has not yet been explored by the international sportsman. At the turn of the millennium, when quality fishing resources are hard enough to come by, it is tough to imagine that a brand-new, virtually unexplored area with such a fierce, yet undiscovered game fish could emerge with such promise and potential.