Lago Lynch is a big water body in the upper part of the Rio Grande drainage. The lake surface is about 50 square kilometers. It is posssible to reach the lake by 4 km of wet trail, coming off a remote logging road.
Along the road there were lots of beaver dams. Beavers were stocked into the waters of the island in 1920es; the animal has devastating effect at the beech forests of the island.
Grey fox is one of the native animals of Patagonia
The trail was quite wet; in some areas we had difficulties to pass even in 4WD pickup.
Guanacos along the road
Along the east bank the lake is very shallow, and its bottom is flat. We did not have a boat, and it was hard to find fish.
Finally I have managed to find a "structure" - a deeper area surounded by shallows. It was situated over 100 meters from the lake shore.
In this place we have started catching fish. These were mostly rainbows up to 1 kg.
The tackle: 15' 2-handed rod, floating line, clear slow-sinking leader, and 0,25 mm tippet. The fish were biting small dark wet flies & nymphs on #10 & # 12 hooks. Retrieve: pulls and pauses.
Ratio of rainbow to brown trout was 2:1. Some brown trout were dark - they had normal "river" colors.
Other fish were almost silver, which is typical for the fish from big, clear waters
We have decided to keep 2 trout and prepare them in a foil with onions. Calafate berries are adding special flavor.
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