CHIMEHUIN RIVER REPORT
(April 23/24, 2005)

Two-day floating outing on the Chimehuin River, from the Angostura del Manzano spot to the "Balsa Vieja" on the Collón Curá River (approximately 35 km. of river).

The weather: cold and windy during both days.

Equipment: #6 and #7 rods, Depth Charge 200 and Tenny 200 sinking lines.

The best performing flies were olive and black Big Sack, brown, olive and black rubber legged Wolly Bugger, grizzly and black Matukas. Also, some black Zonker performed well. The best performing flies sizes were #4 and #6.

At this time of the year and foreseeing the possible movement of migratory brown trout getting ready for spawning, it is not convenient to decrease the size of the flies and the thickness of the tippets too much (1X and 2X being the most appropriate).

Unfortunately, the strong Eastern wind (puelche), which blew all day on Saturday and almost the entire Sunday, complicated the attempts to fish with dry flies, even if the river volume was excellent for floating lines and more subtle equipments, which allowed us to take advantage of the important small mayfly hatching taking place towards midday.

Fishing was not too abundant, probably as a result of the changes in pressure during both days; in fact, on Saturday, the cold weather began with no wind and, as from 11am, a strong puelche wind began to blow and remained during the rest of the day. On Sunday, the same  happened, with calm intervals.

The Collón Curá offered good rainbow trout though not plenty of them.

On the other hand, we have not been able to find migratory brown trout, which made us think that breeding has not began yet, most probably due to the scarce rainfall which failed to increase the rivers volume.

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