Bring Your Group to Argentina. We Handle the Ground.
We are the DMC for northern Patagonia, the destination management company that owns the ground: the trucks, the camps, the guides and the estancia relationships. You bring the anglers, we build the trip around them, turnkey and made to measure. Co-branded or white label, your call.
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Water your clients have not fished
The classic Patagonia lodges are excellent, and plenty of agencies already sell them well. That is not what we offer. Patagonia Trashumante operates a mobile safari across the Neuquén and Aluminé basins, on ranch water that sits outside the usual circuit. For anyone in the industry who has taken groups south before, shop, club, agency or guide, it is a genuinely new story to tell.
You keep the client relationship from first email to airport pickup back home. We handle everything on the ground in Argentina and stay invisible, or fish alongside you as partners. Both models work; we run them today for partners in Europe.
Why we skip the famous names. We do not sell the big lodges of the south, and that is a choice. A group that shares a lodge with three other parties loses what your clients came for: their own water, their own table, their own pace. Here nobody shares anything, the trip feels closer to friends travelling together than to a booking, and on the fishing and the service we have nothing to envy the large operations.
What we run on the ground. A mobile safari, not a stay in a lodge. We follow the fish across the Neuquén and Aluminé basins, on ranch water that stays quiet because access is negotiated one estancia at a time. Safari here means comfort that travels: glamping camps that follow the group, plus lodges, hosterías and cabins, all within reach of the water we fish that day. One guide for every two anglers, six rods maximum, so nobody waits their turn on a run. The season runs from November to May, with December to March as the heart of it, and you set the length with us rather than fitting into a fixed departure. All of that is a starting point, not a package: we compose the trip around your group.
Why we can promise quiet water. Our crew is from here, and the families who own the land along these rivers are neighbours, old friends, in some cases our own. That is what opens the gates and the ranch tracks, and it is why a group of yours can fish a stretch all day and meet only a gaucho moving stock. It is access built over years, not a booking made in an office, and it is not something a competitor can buy next season.
Inside the operation
Camps, lodges, water and fish. What your clients actually live, and what you can show them.
Your brand. Your name. Your clients. Our professionalism.
Every hosted trip leaves with your name on it and our crew behind it. In practice, here is what carries your colours:
- Trip documents and itinerary laid out with your logo and your wording, ready to send.
- The presentation your clients read, built with your photos alongside ours.
- A professional photo and film kit from the safaris, yours to use in your own promotion, at no cost.
- Full white label if you want it: our name appears nowhere on client documents, and we never market to your list.
- Your way of running a trip: pace, rest days, briefings, menu, non fishing partners, all folded into the program.
- Co-branded if you prefer: we fish alongside you as partners and say so openly. Both models run today.
Your clients live it as your trip. We stay the operator behind it, and you keep the relationship from the first email to the thank-you note.
Simple to sell, easy to host
How it works
What a DMC does. A destination management company is the local operator that owns the ground in its region. We design the itinerary, contract and control every service on it, and run the trip from the first airport pickup to the last handshake. One partner, one program, one invoice, instead of a dozen suppliers to chase from another continent. Everything is built to measure for your group, and it is turnkey: you sell, we deliver.
One point of contact and answers within a few days, always in writing.
1 · Tell us about your group
Who you host, group size, the dates you like to travel, and how involved you want to be on the ground.
2 · We build your program
A tailored proposal: zones, camps, pace and menu shaped to your clientele, with clear partner terms on paper.
3 · Come see it first
A familiarization visit can be arranged before you put your name on anything, on your own or with a small group of two or three anglers. Walk the water, sleep in the camp, taste the asado. Some partners skip the visit and go on the record of our original program, which has delivered the same way season after season.
4 · You sell, we operate
You keep the client relationship from first call to thank-you note. We run every mile on the ground and report to you.
Who we work with
We work with the fly fishing industry as a whole, not one slice of it. Independent fly shops and outfitters, guides, hosted trip leaders and clubs, influencers and media, boutique agencies and tour operators, brands that take their people fishing. Groups stay intimate: up to six rods plus the host. Beyond that, talk to us and we build something on purpose. If you gather anglers, there is a way to work together, and we shape the terms around what you actually do.
Your group never shares water, camp or dinner table with strangers. Your trip, your brand. Every hosted trip is designed for you and with you. Co-branded or full white label: your logo on the trip documents, your photos in the presentation, your way of doing things woven into the trip. Your clients can live it as your trip, delivered by our crew. We also hand you a professional photo and film kit from the safaris, free to use in your own promotion. Our group terms are designed so that hosting pays for the host, and a familiarization visit can be arranged before you commit your name.
See the operation in motion
Ninety seconds of what your clients would live: the water, the trucks, the camp and the fish.
What serious partners ask us
- What exactly is a DMC, and why does it matter to my clients?
- A destination management company is the company on the ground that designs the trip and then runs it with its own crew and equipment, rather than booking pieces of it blind. For your clients that means a program composed for them instead of a package they join, and one team responsible from arrival to departure. For you it means a single contract, a single interlocutor, and no local logistics to manage from another hemisphere. The trip itself is described on the trip page.
- Are you licensed and insured?
- Yes. Our guides hold the provincial licenses required to guide in northern Neuquen and the operation carries liability coverage. Documentation is shared with partner terms, before you sign anything.
- Who owns the client relationship?
- You do, completely. Your clients book through you, hear from you, and thank you. In white label mode our name never appears on their documents. We will not market to your list, ever.
- What does hosting look like in practice?
- You can fish alongside your group as host, or send the group and follow the trip from home with our reports and photos. Either way your group has the water, the camp and the crew to itself, with one guide for every two anglers and six rods maximum.
- How custom can the trip really get?
- Zones, pace, wading difficulty, nights under canvas or in a lodge, a hostería or a cabin, menu, rest days, non fishing partners, and the length of the trip itself: the program is composed for your clientele, not adapted from a fixed package. If your clients are technical dry fly anglers, the trip looks one way. If they are three couples, it looks another.
- Can we verify the quality before committing?
- Come and see it. A familiarization visit can be arranged, and we will put you in touch with partners who already send groups, starting with the French journal Globe-Truiteur, which builds its Patagonia trips on our operation.
- What do we get for our own marketing?
- A professional photo and film kit from the safaris, free to use in your promotion, plus a trip presentation you can rebrand with your logo and your photos.
Bring your group somewhere new
Tell us who you host and when you like to travel. We will send the full program and partner terms, and we answer personally.
Host a group with us
Tell us who you are and what you have in mind. We answer personally, usually within a day.