My wife and I fished there a couple years ago and it lived up to our expectations.
The lodge at the mouth of the Barrancoso is top notch, but it should be for the price. It is very isolated out in the Patagonian desert on the eastern flank of the Andes. The cold wind sweeps down off the glaciers and you are likely to have some days of fishing in 60-70km/hr. winds. Luckily you don't have to cast far to get into fish. Imagine standing thigh deep in the lake only a few feet from shore and having 10-15 pounders bump into your legs and swim behind you?
The food is five star and the Argentine wine cellar is bottomless.
The only thing we did not like was that some of our fellow fishermen from south of the border insisted on using plastic beads and multiple bare hooks on their line to snag fish that were stacked in the mouth of the river- even after the lodge manager advised against this at the welcoming briefing. The rest of us used actual flies. Try to go when the river flow is higher, otherwise the fish are stopped at the first big pool called the "Aquarium" which is a great spot but more of the river to fish would have been better.
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