Chile Patagonia Baker Lodge Day 3
Today Exequiel and I fished the Rio Baker together. The action started about the time the sun fell onto the water in mid morning. And then it was very good. We caught many fish in the 15 to 18 inch size on small nymphs fished in the currents around a mid stream gravel bar.
I was using my Hardy 10 foot 3 weight Zenith rod, and the fish gave a powerful accounting of themselves in the heavy currents of the massive river. There were any number of doubles.
Later that day we floated and cast huge streamers for the big browns of the Baker, but the high overhead sun and warm weather had the big fish on the bottom of the 30 foot deep river, awaiting better feeding conditions. None-the-less, it was a great float on an impressively beautiful river.
Doubles were common. In this case we netted them at the same time with one net.
The Hardy 10-3 got a good workout on the health rainbows of the Baker.