La Villa de Estancia Maria Behety Head Guide – Diego Motter
Another week has come to an end here at La Villa. The fishing was difficult this past week we had lots of wind from the east the first 3 days and lots of weather changes, it got very cold at last hour of fishing.
Sinking lines worked the best using T-11, T-14, and T-17, most of the time with nymphs, and sometimes stripping some tubes flies. Dead drifting nymphs and stripping tubes flies also worked at times.
We recommend at list 2 rods, 1 with floating (Scandi) and the other one with sinking lines (Skagit).
We found more fish than previous weeks in the upper beats of the river.
Sunray shadow, emb, tdf prince were the best flies of the week.
79 fish were landed, 12 fish over 15 pounds, 2 fish over 20 pounds, average weight 8 pounds.
Chris was top rod of the week and Doug Salyer landed the largest fish of the week, 21 pounds.
Water Conditions:
Water color and visibility: clear
Water temperature: 6 c to 12 c
Water level: low
Weather Conditions:
Wind speed ranges through the week: the wind was not strong
Air temperature ranges through the week: 6c to 17c
Weather observations (sun, rain, fog, etc.): 3 days with east winds.
Fishing Conditions:
Flies that are working the best: salmon flies size 8,10, tube flies (monkey, sunray shadows), nymph ( emb, prince, tdf prince ,red tail) , green machine, and big flies for the last hour: big tube flies, leeches, intruders.
Fly lines (tips, heads, lengths, densities): Skagit heads with different lengths of T-17, T-14, T-11. Scandi lines with intermediate poly leaders.
Length and strength of tippet and leaders: 6 to 12 feet. 12 to 15 pounds.
Lower and middle part of the river is the best, we start to see more fish in the upper part of the river.
Most of the fish are fresh.
Fish Catch Statistics:
Number of anglers for the week: 5
Total number of fish landed for the week: 79
Weight of the biggest fish: 21 pounds.
Number of fish landed over 15 pounds: 12
Number of fish landed over 20 pounds: 2
Average size: 8
Estancia Maria Behety Lodge Head Guide – Federico Molinolo
We just completed another week at Estancia Maria Behety Lodge. It was a great fishing week. Low and clear water and a lot of fresh fish running into the river.
We had the visit of Ville, Jari, Kari and Karl from Finland; Mike, Larry and Chris from United States; Jerome and Colman from Ireland and Doug from England.
128 fish landed. Our friend Doug L. was top rod with 21 fish in the net! Karl landed the fish of the week: 22 pounds.
Water Conditions
Water color and visibility: Clear water
Water temperature: 6º C to 14ºC
Water level and amount of increase or decrease through the week: The river dropped about 1 inch during this week.
Weather Conditions
Wind speed ranges through the week: West wind most of the days rotating to north some times. From 0 to 50 mph
Air temperature ranges through the week: 1ºC to 16ºC.
Fishing Conditions
Flies that are working the best: Emb, red butt, prince nymph, RL copper John, wonder bug, yuk bug, girdle bug. Black wooly buggers, sunray shadow in different sizes, egg s. leech, intruders, Skagit minnow.
Big and black tube flies and intruders for the last 45 minutes of the day and with dirty water.
Green machine and sunray shadow worked well on floating and intermediate tips.
Fly lines (tips, heads, lengths, densities, etc.): Due the low water level I recommend to bring a Skagit head and a Scandi head with different tips.
Length and strength of tippet and leaders: 4 to 16 feet. 12 to 15 pounds.
Fish Catch Statistics
Number of anglers for the week: 10
Total number of fish landed for the week: 128
Weight of the biggest fish landed for the week: 22
Number of fish landed over 15 pounds: 24
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