![]() ![]() It’s almost guaranteed that the first streamer tossed into this zone will get hammered. The mouths of these creeks are collection areas for large lake rainbows, brookies and browns. In the Andes, some of these high mountain lakes are over ten miles long and may have several of these very productive tributary creeks. Lately, to catch these trout, I’ve been going with a large beetle, as in an inch long with black rubber legs for the ‘first cast’. How big is a big brook trout? Some would say that big starts at 18 inches and on my last fly fishing adventure at Rio Palena Lodge in Chile, I landed a chunky three pounder.īrian O’Keefe’s large Brook Trout in Chilean Patagonia. The pristine Chilean ecosystems create some high-country creeks that will house big rainbows, browns and brook trout. Jagged peaks and thick forest frame streams that are thirty feet wide, as clear as your favorite gin, and usually flow into a large, Bahama blue lake. The Perfect Fly Fishing EnvironmentĬhilean headwater creeks will knock your eyes out visually. ![]() Particularly because in Chile, the Andes Mountains collect the winter snow that feeds the high-country creeks and starts the downhill flow of trout water, but unlike Colorado, in Chile you can fish very close to the ocean and there is a chance at several species of salmon. Using the “Top Down Fly Fishing Approach” in ChileĬhilean Patagonia is a location that should be on every angler’s list. ![]() Eleven Angling guides enjoying a day of fly fishing on the Gunnison river in Colorado. ![]()
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