The Río Simpson running past the edge of Coyhaique under cliffs and hills in Aysén

Coyhaique & Aysén

Coyhaique is the regional capital of Aysén, on the Simpson where the Coyhaique river joins it.

  • Aysén · Chile
  • 7 waters
  • 1 guides & lodges nearby
  • 0 shops nearby
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The Río Simpson passing Coyhaique, Aysén. Photo: Manxuc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Coyhaique & Aysén

Coyhaique is the regional capital of Aysén, on the Simpson where the Coyhaique river joins it; the Mañihuales, Ñireguao and Cisnes run north, the Aysén west to the fjord, and the Baker and Lago General Carrera lie south along the Carretera Austral.

Meet local guides and lodges

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1 guides and lodges within 120 miles (1 fly-focused, 1 lodge). Unclaimed listings, built from each business's own website: confirm licensing, rates and dates directly.

All Aysén guides

All Aysén guides

The Coyhaique & Aysén area

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The circle is the 120-mile area this page covers, around Coyhaique. Tap a water for its page. Shops and guides appear where they publish a street address on their own website; all of them are listed below.

Map of the Coyhaique & Aysén area: its waters, shops and guides

Map of Coyhaique & Aysén: the 120-mile area this page covers, its waters, and shops and guides with an exact address.

Waters around Coyhaique

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The rivers, lakes or flats this hub is organised around. Where a nearby guide or lodge names a water on its own website, we say how many do. Seasons, closures and permits differ by water: check the agency pages under licence and rules.

Readings are the agency's own, shown with their time and marked when older than a day; a station whose agency publishes only an inventory is shown without a number. Nothing here is estimated.

Agency data, not estimated

Species guides mention

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1 guide and lodge website nearby name species of their own; counted below. This is what they advertise, not a promise of what you will catch.

  • Rainbow trout1

Licence, regulations and access

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Buy the permit from the agency or rights-holder and read its current rules before you go. These are the authoritative pages; nothing on this page grants or implies access to any water, and no fee is shown because none was read from an agency page with a date.

SERNAPESCA (Servicio Nacional de Pesca y Acuicultura)

Fees on the agency page

Recreational fishing in Chile needs the SERNAPESCA licence; seasons and closures are published on its pesca recreativa page.

Licence page

Nothing here grants or implies access to any water.

1 guide and lodge listing

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Within 120 miles. Fly-focused operators first, then the best-documented listings. Distances are straight-line from the town centre. Every listing is unclaimed and built from the business's own website and an open map record; confirm licensing, rates and dates directly. Lodges and motherships are labelled as such.

See them above

Few lodges listed so far. Know one? Suggest it.

0 shop listings nearby

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Fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop's own website gives its location; otherwise the shop is included because it is in one of the towns around Coyhaique. Confirm hours with the shop before you go.

No shops listed near Coyhaique yet.

Rates pages (1)

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1 nearby operator publishes a rates page. We never copy rates or estimate a budget for this hub; these links open each operator's own rates page.

Parks and visitor offices

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For the non-fishing days, or the people travelling with you. Official sources only; what to do there is for their pages to say. We do not list or price lodging or flights for this hub.

Gear checklist

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A wade-fishing checklist for big western trout rivers: a 9 ft 5–6 weight outfit, nymph, dry and streamer setups, waders, boots and a wading staff, with estimated prices by tier and where to buy.

A woman in waders and a sun hat wades a broad river and casts, bluffs on the far bank

Big western rivers (wade fishing)

9′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating line · Rainbow and brown trout, whitefish

Open checklist

Watch: wade fishing a big river

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Covering broad water and staying upright in it.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

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Stories from Aysén

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly, tagged with a water in Aysén, Chile.

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Sources for this page

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Guide, lodge and shop listings come from the Legendary directories (open map records checked against each business's own website). Everything else links to the publisher below; this page copies none of their text. A destination hub organises discovery; it does not assert public access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions, and it estimates no price.

Links checked 20 Oct 2026. Not a claim of access or conditions.