From: 07/07/2014
To: 10/01/2014
Type of Water: Freshwater
Species: Brown trout, Brook trout
Week 2 with new friends from Texas. David, Suzanne and Henry (son) were coming from El Chaltén after some trekking in one of the most popular mountain paradises of Patagonia. Picked up by my brother Tomas and welcomed with some good steakes at Estancia Río Pelke. Texas is some way as we are in Patagonia for argentinians. Meat was definetively our common like besides fishing. They have visited some nice places in Chile years before and now they were looking for new spring creeks.
After the first afternoon they captured the essence of our place. A lot of wildlifde, good browns on dry flies and some good food. That is what we try to transmit in everyones visit, our patagonic culture.
David was using a #4 weight sage response rod and rio outbound ready to cut some wind. Tiny rivers w View more...Week 2 with new friends from Texas. David, Suzanne and Henry (son) were coming from El Chaltén after some trekking in one of the most popular mountain paradises of Patagonia. Picked up by my brother Tomas and welcomed with some good steakes at Estancia Río Pelke. Texas is some way as we are in Patagonia for argentinians. Meat was definetively our common like besides fishing. They have visited some nice places in Chile years before and now they were looking for new spring creeks.
After the first afternoon they captured the essence of our place. A lot of wildlifde, good browns on dry flies and some good food. That is what we try to transmit in everyones visit, our patagonic culture.
David was using a #4 weight sage response rod and rio outbound ready to cut some wind. Tiny rivers with no wind demand a lot of presition and a careful aproach. The three of them listened to my tips and converted them into some fishes. Nothin better for a guide than the feeling of being heard I must say...
After some brownies David hit a good one around 4 pounds and we called it a day!
Day 2 started as usual in the upper part of the Pelke river... we saw a coupple of horned owls that live up hill and were pretty good to us to do some pics. I´m pretty sure they tought this owls worked for me or at least that were domestic. Pelke river gets fun once you focuse only in rising fish and we did so. Huge long cut banks washed by high flows months ago made the perfect shelter for black faced ibises, which had recently nested and hide away some babies. Unreacheable for foxes...
We fish #3 weight tackle LTS X1 that I have perfect balanced for Pelke to get the best of it. Some brokies and decent browns hunted with caddis flies were enough to cover rising fishes, and then tried some coper jones and small stone flies for the bigger ones at the bottom.
The afternoon was father and son time. They literally hooked every brown trout in a coupple of kilometers like if they were born in my place. Awesome; hidding and aproaching like foxes to every small bucket and making the reels go crazy as windmils. Only with chernos!! It does say everything,
Day 3: Like a big family we enjoyed every meal after we knew each other. Henry was leaving some fishing sessions to join my father Pedro on the steakes preparation. Dave and Su saved the last session for themselves and had some really nice brooks, this time Suzanne got the biggest one and the best fish I´ve seen during the season... a perfect 4 pounds brook trout that fell on a huge chernobyl ant in a small pool. Walking, spoting fish and hooking them, like machines... A perfect afternoon that ended with my brother cooking pizza and garlik bread at the big house!
Number of fish: 53
Biggest fish: Suzanne 4 pds brook
Top fly: Chernobyl ant
