As the Atlantic salmon (scientific name: salmo salar) get into their spawning
cycle they take on more spots and thus the confusion with the brown trout. But
these fish do not take the fly like a trout nor do they jump and leap like a trout.
Its a completely different fish and has its own set of moods and time of activity.
Andrew
McKay
This particular fish
caught by Andrew McKay is about nine pounds and was caught in the boulder riddled
water between two large oxygenated rapids. 
The
fish was caught using a Clouser minnow. The fish came up out of deep water and
took the fly on the swing just under the surface. The water is clear and fast
so you can see the fish when they leave their cover of the large boulders. Its
a sight to behold when you have one coming at your fly.
Most
of the fish hooked in this part of the river are very hard to land. They can take
off down river into the heavy current and their gone. When this happens the reel
is hard put and the angler running so as not to lose the fish or all his line.
This kind of fly fishing has its own special pleasure and heartbreak.
As with
all our trout and salmon pictures, the pictures are taken and the fish are immediately
released into the water so that future generations can be replenished by the present
ones.
Jorgen
Stenberg and Salar Salmon
After many cast and presentations of different flies, which is not
unusual for Atlantic (Salar) salmon fishing, Jorgen (from Sweden) got a firm take
on his fly and he new it was this time not a trout, but a real Salar salmon. 
He
had caught more than 500 "Atlantics" during his life and knew from experience
who was on the other end of his line.
This
was his first Wild Salar Salmon he had ever caught south of the equator in water
flowing to the Pacific Ocean. In other words a true Pacific Salar. Jorgen had
thought, maybe changing oceans was going to somehow change the fishes instincts,
but it had not. The fish acted just as the salars of the Atlantic Ocean. He landed
a perfect 6 kilo Male salar salmon. He had got want he had came for.
Contacting
Us
Contact us today for a fly fishing experience of a lifetime in Chile and Argentina.
The lodges (Alto Puelo Fishing Lodge on the Argentina Chile border, Rio Yelcho
Fishing Lodge in Chile and Alerces Park Fishing Lodge in Argentina) all are warm
and comfortable.
