"Stone of the Eagle" - Average Limay River
Province of Neuquén - Rep. Argentina
 

By: Hugo Gallo

The climate gave the back us

Sunday 27 of November we traveled towards Stone of the Eagle with the expectation to float Average the Limay River, already in the route of Neuquén towards Stone the fort wind shook the light truck, when arriving at the city we found out that there were bursts of up to 80 km per hour, winds that did not stop to the night and continued Monday 28, that day in the morning we met with Gustavo Ríos, that would guide to us in the fishing, there we knew that the commentaries heard in versus. Ace. with respect to the state of the cordilleranos rivers she was not exaggerated, the Limay River in this zone it was two meters above of the normal thing for the time, was an uncontrolled water torrent, trees with the water saw themselves half of their glasses, and the water dragged many branches and dirt.

In this one opportunity we lodged in the Hotel “Stone of the Eagle”, located on route 237 in center of the city, is a very comfortable hotel and with internal parking, something very important for those who we traveled by far luggage and elements of work.
 

This one situation of the rivers must to that it had made snow-white delayed and soon very intense rains, the combination of these two phenomena caused that rains drag to the new snow, and this one water volume overflows almost all the rivers of the zone.

In spite of it, and defying strong winds Gustavo it accompanied until the zone by Bunker Nogueira, we chose a coast sector there that allowed to try some you send, to arrive at the place we journeyed a rural way that were nothing less than “the old” way to Bariloche, we imagined the eventful journeys that confronted those travellers doing hundreds of kilometers by those footpaths of debris.

Following with the attempt of fishing, we armed the equipment of fly, canes # 9 (Kunnan Quillén), and lines Cortland “QD” (Quick Descent) of 325 grains, equivalent to a Teeny 300, these lines are Sinking Tip, but it is associated them with the Teeny that in fact are a mark and not a line model, consist of an end of 9 collapse from 7 to mts. and floating of 25/28 mts., is ideal to obtain a fast reduction of the fly, with the advantage of being able to correct the drift from the floatation section, in addition it is possible to still relaunch the line with several meters outside the cane.

We used traditional flies Wooly green Bugger olive and black, Fuzzy Wuzzi, some ballast Matuca, we had some resentments but we could not shape none of them in concrete capture, the wind of the right side forced to us to castear with the left hand or to castear from backs to the river, to avoid the moscazos in the head by impulse of the wind, to this added the problem which the extracted line that was in the floor romped in the shrubs of the coast and we could not send the necessary meters, after three hours of fight against the climate we decided to return to the city and to reintentar within 20/25 days.
In this one relevamiento we began to make shootings for videos and TV, as they can see in one of the photos I made debut in this one type of tasks, I hope that the result pleases to them.