You know the saying - Teach a man to fish and take the fool's money. Or something like that. Joking, although I did look like a fool: 
Hey who knew it was going to be 35 degrees at 9am and misty enough on the river to block the sun. But eventually the sun broke through and we had our 65 an sunny day we had planed for. Manny did the best he could with the talent he was given, but Eric and I just couldn't put it all together in time - Eric had on big one on his line for 10 seconds before it got away. I had a couple nibbles which also could easily have been rocks. But regardless the Limay River (which means "clear" in Mapuche) was beautiful. We learned to fly fish - wet and dry flies, wading and floating, in a picturesque Patagonian setting. As it turns out we were fishing during the season where there aren't many fish in thr water, but the Brown Trout that are present are lunkers. So maybe we aren't as bad as we appear. If it weren't so expensive I wouldn't have any reservations about the experience.
Still in Bariloche - Eric punked out to Burnos Aires today on his way to Peru. I checked the weather forecasts and hostel prices in Arg and Chile an made the informed decision to stay here for a couple more days. Tomorrow I'm trying to wrangle up a group to rent a car and see the 7lakes route. Then it's on to Chile for real to climb the pansiest of the three volcanoes I've found unless I can find some more adventurous hiking buddies now that Eric is gone.
Hey who knew it was going to be 35 degrees at 9am and misty enough on the river to block the sun. But eventually the sun broke through and we had our 65 an sunny day we had planed for. Manny did the best he could with the talent he was given, but Eric and I just couldn't put it all together in time - Eric had on big one on his line for 10 seconds before it got away. I had a couple nibbles which also could easily have been rocks. But regardless the Limay River (which means "clear" in Mapuche) was beautiful. We learned to fly fish - wet and dry flies, wading and floating, in a picturesque Patagonian setting. As it turns out we were fishing during the season where there aren't many fish in thr water, but the Brown Trout that are present are lunkers. So maybe we aren't as bad as we appear. If it weren't so expensive I wouldn't have any reservations about the experience.
Still in Bariloche - Eric punked out to Burnos Aires today on his way to Peru. I checked the weather forecasts and hostel prices in Arg and Chile an made the informed decision to stay here for a couple more days. Tomorrow I'm trying to wrangle up a group to rent a car and see the 7lakes route. Then it's on to Chile for real to climb the pansiest of the three volcanoes I've found unless I can find some more adventurous hiking buddies now that Eric is gone.
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