From: 12/01/2015
To: 02/12/2016
Type of Water: Freshwater
Species: Brown trout, Brook trout
Season Report - The Route of the Spring Creeks
3rd Season went through and some new fishermen along with some regulars came to experience our route of authentic estancias of Patagonia. Most of the weather was warm with some regular wind from the west and temperatures from 10º to 28ºC. Lots of hatches at the end of the day were making the trout very active on the surface and the most enjoyable time of the day for sure.
The highlights of the season by our clients
• This season we landed the biggest brook trout and the biggest brown trout since we opened our doors to the fishermen.
• Each week we listened: “this is the best lamb I have ever eaten in my life”, “this is not the regular wine you find in lodges, is way better”
• Every fishermen told that the attractio View more...Season Report - The Route of the Spring Creeks
3rd Season went through and some new fishermen along with some regulars came to experience our route of authentic estancias of Patagonia. Most of the weather was warm with some regular wind from the west and temperatures from 10º to 28ºC. Lots of hatches at the end of the day were making the trout very active on the surface and the most enjoyable time of the day for sure.
The highlights of the season by our clients
• This season we landed the biggest brook trout and the biggest brown trout since we opened our doors to the fishermen.
• Each week we listened: “this is the best lamb I have ever eaten in my life”, “this is not the regular wine you find in lodges, is way better”
• Every fishermen told that the attraction of this kind of fishing is that you don´t get bored, each cast can have a trout, so, its a lot of attention all the time… and that keeps your mind clear as the sky.
• “We feel part of the family”, most of our guests liked a lot the idea of sharing the house, that are not typical lodges! They have a story behind the walls and we tell it each time.
• Most of the fishermen landed his biggest brook trout with us.
The fishing
As guides we try to count every trout that we catch, but the population is so good that sometimes we lose the number. The average per day per fishermen was between 15 and 20 fishes. Top fly is definitively the Fat Albert either for brown trout or brook trout when you move them in the surface creating some noise.
For dry fly fans, fiberglass rods on size 2 and 3 worked magnificent. It was hard to land some browns over two kilos and the same with big brooks that looked for the bottom once hooked. We never took away the floating line in the whole week!
Some of the water we scouted was very good and some other with no great success. The feeling of touching pieces of water that nobody has fished before have some good effect on everyone. The guides Tomas and Juan are preparing some new beats for every season keeping the pressure and fish population as its best.
The rivers structure allows you to fish with wind because you can wade across and reach every pool. Half of the week most of the fishermen don’t use waders, is no need, but after losing some nice browns in deeper water everyone puts on the waders.
Food
From breakfast to dinner we have selected local ingredients, mainly produced in our estancias such as rhubarb, blueberry liquor, jams in different recipes. The most successful was the carrots and orange marmalade made organically in Estancia Chankaike, our second stop.
Lamb on the “chulengo” is our most highly ranked lunch, due to freshness of the meat (never touched the freezer) and the smoky of Calafate wood picked up in the country. All cooked by Pedro Biott who also makes an excellent chimichurri and delivers the “best lamb you could ever try”.
Then flan, cheesecakes and own deserts are Fernanda’s specialty along with the afternoon cookies. This season every fisherman has gained at least 1,5kilos.
Landscape and wildlife
All the fishermen were excited to see so much wildlife around the fishing beats. Rheas and guanacos are the biggest ones, but in one of the estancias there are also pumas in the border with Chile. Sky is what everyone enjoys a lot. Infinite stars and unpolluted skies. Either the yellow and dry steppe or the black volcanic valleys took all the credit for pictures and well appreciated by the visitors. Some of the highlights were the volcanic walls you find in the last river and all the craters around – “moon landscape” -.
Final words
All the people that visited us concluded with one phrase: “this is real Patagonia”. And that for our family is our main goal, to share all the culture of pioneers of these lands. To get your trophy brook trout is also something that completes a full trip to Patagonia, there are not many fisheries with 6 or 7 pounds brooks in the world, even less in rivers like here.
By guide Juan Manuel Biott
