KAU TAPEN

Many people who are entrepreneurs, and I consider myself one, tend to novelize their beginnings and success stories after they have had some success. I am not one of those people, and I continue to look forward daily, with only a few pauses from time to time to look back and appreciate what it is we have done... We started our first lodge as something of a family holiday hobby, building a small, 6 angler lodge in Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego. I was one of the guides, we rented tiny cars to fish from, and I brought friends and Doug Larsen as the foreign expert to help us. We had a total of 12 fishermen the entire first season, and 18 the second. At that time the Rio Grande was thought to have the biggest sea run brown trout on earth, a fact that was clearly confirmed that first season, but more frequently in each season that followed as we were able to pass a groundbreaking catch and release law. It took us ten years to do it, but the Rio Grande remains now as the only river in South..

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