The Mouth of the Correntoso
It has in itself a
challenging difficulty to reach, and trouts sufficient to award to which it
surpasses it.
The Mouth of the Correntoso is
Mecca for fishermen experienced with fly.
It is for them a force that unites them.
A place that defies them and compares them.
The week previous to that we were they had fished in the place, like every year,
Chiche Aracena and its brother. This year I had the honor to share the river
with Héctor Jesus Leoni and its friends who demonstrated to me that to obtain
good captures in the Mouth of the Correntoso it is necessary to know it.
Héctor is the creator of one of the flies of which rendidora for the trouts of
the place is considered. A rare Stonefly with rubber legs, ugly and with some
difficulties of tied, that Mr. Thin, creative and manufacturing, of the flies
and decoys “OF”, it commercialized many years ago with the name of “Leonis
Barbarous”.
There are some who they prefer to fish the side of the Hotel. Place in which
noveles is joined old and fishermen in a group where single the timidity of the
ignorance or the moderation of the wisdom separates without wanting to those who
summon itself there.
All together ones
It consists to me to have been fishing next to personages stereotyped in this
fishing like “those that know” and to be dealed with like one more the group,
being that I, am not a good one for caster and in addition I know little the
toponymy to the bed that marks the best places in the mouth. This encounter
between people with experience and fishermen noveles has in that mouth the
virtue which always beneficiary leaves. Or like better fisherman or having known
personages who will be close in the history that each one forms in the fishing
with fly.
There are differences between fishermen, but some, single it invents the
insecurity or the reserve that grants the own experience, seizure like which all
the others share.
Memory an old quarrel, between Mr. Linares de Mendoza and a dear friend of the
mouth, to make differences between which they fished of a side and another one.
Jose Luis Scribano, defended the position of the fishermen of the Hotel and
denied that offensive positions existed of for others, nor that there were
quarrels or intentions found among them. A recurrent subject and to which I
adhere like one entelequia.
As it is fished.
The Correntoso river is considered shortest of the world since single it has 214
meters in the route from Lago Correntoso to his mouth of encounter with Lago
Nahuel Huapi. It exists, like is logical, a well formed by the current when
ending at the lake, and this well is at which all we want to arrive with our
flies.
This does not mean that the River is not a good fishing boat and has other
secrets to fish it, but almost all want to cross the current their launching and
to happen with the style that can, all the possible veril so that some Rainbow
cuts the speech to him in a resentment.
Each fisherman must his streamer favourite. Also nymphs with rubber legs are
used that act dual. Generally the used flies are tied in hook six or of greater
opening.
The line that is used, been more shooting of collapse II and for some of
collapse III. It is begun to send, or of the hotel or the hopper, from the river
overcoming towards pozón natural of the opening. I read sometimes that pozón is
to 70 meters, more or less, from the last site of possible launching.
- this does not have to be exact because for this distance it influences the
height of the river - and arriving until seems very difficult there, still with
an excellent launching and some corrections without losing the control of the
line.
For expert fishermen, to lose the control of the line being left to derive it is
not the best thing, nor the most described. It does not seem missed that
position if technically one feels equipped.
The line in control implies to be fishing, the line deriving seemed that the
resentment will be a surprise and a disloyalty for the profit of the capture.
That nobody is torn the clothes if commits “resemblance atrocity” because the
majority does. Some orthodox ones go away without fishing to avoid to derive too
much the line.
It is good for knowing that the best ones think that two or three corrections
after a good launching exceed to receive good trouts.
To fish the River
To fish the river, from where the route of the mouth is begun, is a possibility
that the majority does not know or ignores knowingly. To send from the beginning
shooting 45 º towards the mouth, is sends possible, is cross a river the fly and
the fishing is totally different from which we were speaking. This year, Mel
Krieger, at that time in the Patagonia, with that shot, previous to uncouple its
fly of one retama that hangs of the cliff of the hotel, obtained a Rainbow of
more than two kilos with the first one sends that it arrived at the water.
Those that we create in, we thought about its knowledge of atmospheres, surely,
its detractors, if it has them, they will think that it was single luck. The
reality is that that shot, makes Mel or You, when you begin the route in the
Mouth of the Correntoso, it is not necessarily a great launching, and is an
opportunity with no need to receive good trouts of a great technique.
Julio, who east year beautiful two collection Rainbow, is convinced that there
is to throw perpendicular to the river and to correct allowing that shooting is
dragged crossing the veril. After corrections, when stopping the line, shotting
will look for by the pressure of the march of the river to straighten itself
towards the center of the current, and having total control of the line, when
beginning the traction will take place the resentments. The style is good, but
like everything, he is individual and therefore it is valid for Julio and for
those who practice it convinced and with results.
My experience says that when sends she cross a river in almost all his wide one,
two corrections to me are enough and the fly fishes in almost all its route.
Short Lance but, smaller efficient trajectory of the fly therefore, less
possibilities of fishing. Ergo. The one that sends well has substitutes
possibilities, and this year there are many trouts waiting for them. The good
four throwers removed three or Rainbow per day. I was twice, and single I
obtained a resentment, which put contentment to me because other years not even
I felt them.
Conclusion.
The height of the river in the week from 1 to the 8 of December was ideal. It
was fished in both margins: of the side of the hotel and the one of the Hopper.
In all the passage that a fisherman crosses until leaving place to another one,
there were resentment possibilities. Many pieces were received.
I was not present at any extraordinary capture but I knew that trouts left more
than four kilos. Reason why I lived, in the few incursions that I did, no the
three trout I surpass kilo and the fishing was possible from the first launching.
As always a good launching extreme resentment possibilities, but was not the
reason of the great amount of captures that I was present at.
There was many fishermen who did not respect the time label and place that must
exist in the rotation to fish the designated route, but this, because there was,
of both sides is not due either to stand out, amount of fishermen all the day.
A great respect to the fisherman exists Nobel by whom they have given the mystic
him who contains this close place of fishing.
In the mouth is that that arrives for the first time, inept and innocent, with
that they greet every year with the known trouts like old. It is not scared to
be thinking that all are extraordinary throwers and You it would be outside
place. If one animates, it will see that nobody judges it and that not only will
be able to fish a trout but the experience to share with the best ones a place
than deserves the greater one of the respect by the fishermen with fly.
In addition I will say
something to him that few know. Bebe Anchorena, that mythical fisherman,
affirmed that the mouth of the Correntoso is easy or at least easier that the
mouth of the Chimehuín. Trusting that, I make an effort to me in the winter to
improve my launching and return every year with the hope to gain a trout
sometimes to him.
Enrique Gómez
