Northern Patagonia - Alumine River Fishing Report - Rainbow and Brown Trout Fishing

Morning Session
Weather: Morning was a bit chilly in the low 50’s and later warmed up during the day to get into the middle 70’s
Water Conditions: The Alumine River as a bit low, but has been fishing OK
Fly Fishing Equipment: 5 and 6wts with 250 and 350 sinking lines drifting nymphs.

Report
I fished with Mapu alone, Tom and Ryan fished with Javier. Mapu is a Park and Fisheries Ranger. His family owns a camp ground which we floated by and his Mom came out and took some pics. Fishing was a little crazy in that we drift double nymph rigs, but actually stripped them in. I caught a fish almost immediately as we started our drift fomr the put in. It was pretty consistent hooking and a good amount of catching the entire day. Mostly rainbows, but I managed two nice browns. First one was very large, but I was holding the fish just above the water so I did not keep him out of the water long and he slipped out and he went right back to his home waters before Mapu could get the shot.

We stopped for lunch around 2pm where Slyvia (the outfits cook) had set up a great little camp with everything including a tent to keep the bees out. Interesting things on the bees (yellow jackets) in Argentina. They are not native and were introduced to eat the horse flies. The problem is that someone did not seem to do their research because the two do not seem to come out during the same season. As soon as the late summer comes the horse flies disappaear and the bees appear, which means the bees never have a chance to even eat the horse flies. And when the food comes out, man so do the bees. As long as you do not swat and make them mad you are good and will not get stung, start swinging and your about garentees to find yourself with a nice welt. After lunch we took about an hour and a half siesta, then loaded into the boats and contiuned on down the Alumine. About fifteen minutes into the float I hooked into another nice brown, this time I held on to the fish and Mapu was able to take a few shots. The rest of the day was smaller sized rainbows landed with a beautiful backdrop of the Alumine River basin. We fished up the drift around 8pm,jumped in the trucks and headed back to the Patagonia Fishing Club’s Lodge. On the ride home we talked about the day and Tom and Ryan we not able to land any larger fish, but caught plenty on the numbers side.

We were greeted by Guy who had apetizers ready and a bottle of Argentine wine already opened. We showered, grab some apetizers, talked about fishing and then sat down to dinner around 9:30pm. For dinner we had Argentine lasanga followed with flan for desert. We wrapped up dinner around 10:45pm and decided to get an internet connection which required us to pack into guy’s truck and head into downtown Alumine to the internet cafe. We each logged on to the painfully slow connection, checked what email we could and closed the place down at midnight. For the three of us for an hour it was 6 pesos or $3US. By 12:20am were were back at the lodge and we were beat, so we hit the sack.

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