unlike a traditional lodge where you usually fish only one river or stream poncho likes to
take his guests throughout the region every day trying a new fly fishing experience
we love this travel an opportunity to see the wonders of the region
and of course sampling the different types of river and stream fishing
today pancho has brought norm and i to a small stream which has easy walk
and weight fishing as we proceed in there are grasshoppers everywhere buzzing through the air
already i'm getting excited about the prospect of casting small hopper patterns
to hungry trout so we're just moving down the stream getting into positions and this little
feeder creek poncho spotted a nice big brown probably 14 to 15 inches
and uh the winds are cooperating right now and hopefully i can lay the cast out
far enough ahead there's a smaller chart at the bottom but what we're hoping is i can get to the
other fish without the little fish getting the fly and i don't touch the weeds on the side so it's
see how this goes
got him
all right
good eye there fine show oh he's coming down the river he's right here poncho
beautiful little brown and look how big this creek is it's so small
right first fish of the day the trout in the rivers have a wide variety of food
sources of course they will jump on any bait fish that makes the mistake of swimming by
but for fly fishers it's the top water food sources that are of the highest interest
grasshoppers are abundant and a delectable food source for the brown and rainbow trout
the daily high winds blow enough hoppers into the rivers and streams
to ensure the trout have lots of opportunities to feed on these terrestrials
most unique to this region and an absolute favorite of the trout are the stag beetles
these massive insects cause explosive surface attacks when they fall into the water
i'll bring him to you right here
all right oh it's beautiful
oh look at that beautiful good fly thank you francisco
good man
nice this is really hard i've spooked three fish coming up along this willow
francisco's on the bank giving me guidance
i just got this and there's another riser up here so i'm hoping i can find another good-sized fish
nice rainbow i think in it really this cold cold water is going to revive really easily
there's tall grasses and willow trees that drape over the stream
providing cover to the trout from predators
however the same cover will make casting challenging for us
one bad cast and you hook a branch leading to a spook trout
stealth is the key here and poncho makes sure we position ourselves to hide from the trout
nice
well that's the second fish out of the same hole fantastic
they're sitting here under the willows beautiful bring them in
ah nicely done pancho all right so with this the guy we got under the willows took him
on a red humpty a nice little release back into the stream so someone else
can catch them another day i love this fishing in chile and the sun came out
today and now the fish are getting very active so beautiful let's get another one
big fish whoa
it's a rainbow he's coming down
what the head just came up and chomped that hopper
i can watch beautiful beautiful fish
yes baby that was outstanding
the rods that brought to chile to fish the streams and rivers are four to six
weights the ideal lengths are seven and a half to nine foot in various actions
based on the size of stream or river we're fishing the patterns we used on the rivers and streams in
chile were mostly top water offerings poncho likes us to use darker colored hopper patterns
that were generally smaller than what we're used to the same applied to any beetle patterns as well
tied with foam or other buoyant materials for streamers we also use mostly dark or black
colored patterns which seem to incite the greatest interest from the trout
another one here this water is proving to be extremely productive we're taking a lot of
fish out of here i don't know if this is a bigger one or hard to tell at first pulling fairly well
yeah yeah he's a good fish give me give me a good run for my money
another nice rainbow oh no it's brown yeah the browns here quite quite colorful
okay where is he
oh i got caught up in my fly line
got him taking fish after fish out of this one run here just working left to right one under
the willows one just in the slipstream there and the flow one in the quiet mirror water there it's
really interesting just methodically moving up here uh you know sometimes
we move too fast through the water and we're not methodical enough when we miss a lot of fish
we look we don't see them we keep going we keep going we're walking by fish so today
we're taking a long time to do this one stretch of water and we're pulling a lot of fish out of
here so it's a good lesson for me to slow down a little bit beautiful fish poncho
beautiful fish ready to go back and somebody else can catch him next time
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