Famous Rio Grande begins in the western (Chilean) part of the Tierra del Fuego, crosses the island and flows into Atlantic Ocean. On this shot Rio Blanco flows left to right and joins Rio Grande near a big beaver hut.
Below the junction with Rio Blanco the Rio Grande becomes rather big; it is difficult to wade across it even in low water.
The river meanders in wide open valley with only a few beech trees. There are no willows in the floodplain.
Flat terrases of the river allow driving with a 4WD truck.
In the private stretches of the river there are not many fishermen.
We were fihshing the Chilean part of Rio Grande - from the bridge at the Ruta 85 downstream to the border with Argentina. The most numerous fish was resident brown trout. The stream offers excellent trout fishing, but we were aimed at trophy sea-run trout. This means, a bite of even good size resident trout was considereda nuisance...
Both resident and sea-run trout were biting black or other dark wet flies. Most of resident fish were caught with big flies on #6-4 hooks.
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