We are heading to the south of the Tierra del Fuego Island. The road is literally cut in the rocks.
Finally the long-awaited Lago Fagnano is visible from a mountain pass. At the pass we see the first snow.
This huge lake is 100 km long and up to 500 m deep. In the first evening we were able to fish the lake - the wind was very mild. I was lucky to land a very unusually looking rainbow trout.
The fish was very strong, rather skinny and bright silver - with no pink strips on its sides.
About 9/10 of the Fagnano Lake belongs to Argentina; we have visited the western, Chilean part. Here there is the lake outlet - short Rio Azopardo.
Rio Azopardo is swift and powerful; its water is very clear. There are rumors on huge sea-run brown trout which are caught in this stream. The wading was tough - in most areas the stream was way too deep.
I was able to catch a fat brook trout. This fish is probably coming into the river out of the lake for feeding or spawning.
Good size rainbow trout was caught far from the bank with a nymph on a floating line
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