So we headed out of town at 8 and were at the river fishing by 11 after an hours hike to get up to the stream...calling it a stream would also be a bit of an exaggeration as you could step over it in most places and it was seldom more than half a meter deep, but had some undercut banks and was full of insect life and although you couldn´t see the fish, they were hiding under the banks and a little bit hungry too!
The scenery was spectacular, we were on a part of a huge estancia that stretched all the way to the Argentine border and so had a few horses around and the odd sheep, but it was wild. There were a few Nandu (the large flightless birds a bit smaller than ostrich), condors, geese and some Flamingos in the adjacent wetlands.
The stream had a good population of Brown Trout and I had a really memorable 5 hours of fishing through the day. It was all about short casts to water that looked good, the wind was pumping all day and a bit overcast, so it made sight fishing difficult but if you could get the fly in the right spot, and there was a fish there, it was game on.
I took my first fish on my first cast and the fun carried on.
They were all between 16" and 22" and all got a kiss before being returned to fight another day. Being a small water, they also spent a lot of time in the air after being hooked and the fights were good.
In total I landed 7 and lost a few others, all on the dry fly and the takes were the best part of it, aggressive and on a few times I got to see the fish come up and inspect the fly before slamming it.
Some pic´s below of a couple of the fish, and in the one if you look closely you can see the fish jumping..Am now planning on heading south for a few days of hiking in Cerro Castillo, but the weather has packed it in, so it might be a wet trip....
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