We caught a very good number of nice fish. In particular the average weights over the summer was amazing! considering we had very good weeks of fishing and some a bit slow, we finished with 11.24 pounds as an average.
A very nice season has ended in Bella Vista Lodge, just enough to celebrate the sixteen years since Bella Vista Lodge first fished the waters of the Rio Gallegos and Gallegos Chico.
When we arrived in January, the water level was very low and it stayed as such for most of the season, only three weeks over the summer we had good water levels in the river. We had only one big rise during the summer and another in the last week of the season, with the consequence of having many varied and different conditions for sea trout, turning, dark, fresh and very fresh, also very good size throughout the summer.
In general terms, weather conditions were not perfect making the mood of the fish very unpredictable, high temperatures, constantly shifting winds throughout the summer in Patagonia.
We caught a very good number of nice fish. In particular the average weights over the summer was amazing!!!, considering we had very good weeks of fishing and some a bit slow, we finished with 11.24 pounds as an average, only two weeks with 8,59 lbs, the rest of the eleven weeks, trout averaged between 10,20 and 12,83 pounds. We had the best week of the season in March--when we hooked a total of 24 sea trout, landed 19, with an average of 12.66 lbs!!, 4 of the fish were between 15 and 20 pounds, and one was above 20 pounds.
We ended with a total number of 173 sea trout and an average weight for the whole season of 12,2 pounds!, We hooked 89 sea trout, 41 sea trout between 15 and 20 pounds, 6 more than 20 pounds, the largest fish was 23 pounds caught by Didier Convers from France.
Also we caught many huge brown trout during the thirteen weeks in the main river, ending with almost a thousand browns, some of them weighing 5 and 8 pounds, and in the Gallegos Chico, the river dry fly fishing was incredible!!!, we landed 161 brown trout in the spring creek between 2 and 5 pounds.
Special thanks to all guests, new guests and guests who come each season alike.
We are looking forward to see you all next season!!
Gaston C. Guglielminetti
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