From: 01/03/2015
To: 01/07/2015
Type of Water: Freshwater
Species: Brown trout, Brook trout
First 1week of January, as usual, we got the visit of our english friends. David and Sarah. David fishes very well and Sarah is a experienced horse rider.
Pelke was our first stop on "The Route of the Spring Creeks". This time our program would include 1 horse ridding in each estancia. From vegas to lava, along with my father who is a real Gaucho and good horse rider too.
Water level this season was lower than usual but fishes were there. We set up #4 tackle with a WF Floating line from Rio to cover the whole system of creeks for every estancia.
Im pretty sure David has the best catches in this place. Again, with an epic follow, he got from 50cm of water a brown that reached 3 kilos. One of the biggest I´ve seen in this river.
In estancia Chank Aike we spent two days of great View more...First 1week of January, as usual, we got the visit of our english friends. David and Sarah. David fishes very well and Sarah is a experienced horse rider.
Pelke was our first stop on "The Route of the Spring Creeks". This time our program would include 1 horse ridding in each estancia. From vegas to lava, along with my father who is a real Gaucho and good horse rider too.
Water level this season was lower than usual but fishes were there. We set up #4 tackle with a WF Floating line from Rio to cover the whole system of creeks for every estancia.
Im pretty sure David has the best catches in this place. Again, with an epic follow, he got from 50cm of water a brown that reached 3 kilos. One of the biggest I´ve seen in this river.
In estancia Chank Aike we spent two days of great fishing. Only for brooks this time. With a great average of a kilo we walked along for miles and we caught around 10 fishes. We were about to leave, but we decided to try on more spot, a long strech that told nothin. We got 11 more fishes, one after the other, nailing the fly crazy, and really good sizes. I guess none fished there in years or decades. It was stunning! We celebrated our trip with some botles of high quality argentinian malbec and fresh steakes from the estancia.
Our last estancia is located in the middle of a volcanoe valley and we have one more day to try deep holes and look for big brooks. Its the last river of Argentina!
The estancias limits with a chilean National Park called Paliaike (means lonely place in aboriginal lenguaje). This one protects lava fields and all the wild nature around such as guanacos, rheas, foxes and pumas. The last ones decide to come and take some sheeps in our Estancia, so farmers are very concerned for this.
I took David to a small bucket of no more than 40cm, surrounded by weeds were only one good cast would fit and you had two strips to catch a fish, lets call it a difficult beat. As an expert, followed by me favourite phrase, "you only have one cast for this place", David put the fly exactly were I ment and the result was the biggest brook of the trip.
Rods: 1 (5 days)
Number of fish: 55 aprox
Biggest Fish: 7 pds brown, 6pds brook
Tackle: #4 + floating wf rio
