Sea Trout fishing Rio Grande Argentina. Packing Advice - what to bring?

you decided to make a short video about

what

to pack and

what

to

bring

for the Rio Grande in Argentina. It's a long way to go and essentially a little preparation ahead of time will serve you well and essentially improve your overall enjoyment of the trip. If you

bring

the right gear, whether it's from

fishing

gear and also from a clothing perspective, because you're certainly in the elements down here, even if it's South America or the Argentinian summer, you're still very far south and you can have There are a lot of four seasons in a day, even during the night.

Frost, so pack accordingly, starting with the clothes you would always travel in. Layers are really important as you need to have all the layers to basically cut the wind and keep you warm. and comfortable on the river essentially, if you're comfortable on the river, you're going to enjoy your time on the river a lot more and I think you're going to fish better as a result, little things, so putting on layers of wool, you know, jackets, all this stuff. kind of fantastic stuff, a lot of this is to help with the wind rather than the rain so you definitely need a good rain jacket so that's essential but actually the layers under the rain jacket are equally important, but exactly, although of course it can rain, the purpose of much of this clothing is actually to keep you warm and out of the wind rather than to protect you from the rain, beyond the jackets and other things that a amateur can really help keep the wind out of your back view, so and also the sun down here is really really strong, so if it's a sunny day you can pull up your shield just to protect your face a little bit, but on that front again the sun is very strong so make sure you pack. some heavy suntan lotion, even on windy days where you don't really feel it, there's actually a hole over the ozone layer in this section, so you have to be very, very careful, so when you don't think you're sunbathing. you are sunbathing so a benefit is a very good way to accompany you with sun cream gloves again if your hands get wet and then the wind starts to blow your hands get very cold so it is worth

packing

some mitten type gloves. so definitely bring a couple of them again, it's just about carrying layers to or from the river, a small backpack, so a backpack just to carry all your

fishing

gear most of the time will be within reach of a vehicle , so If you really wanted to leave this in the vehicle, the guide will help you carry it, but a roll-top waterproof and dry bag is a good way to do it and worth taking personally, this is actually my carry-on. , so when you do it.

When I'm on flights, this is what I carry all my carry-on luggage in, so instead of carrying a duplicate bag, this is what I choose to travel with when you're actually walking around with the catch. I think instead of putting too many things in my fishing jacket I prefer to carry a garbage bag, so little dry garbage bag, yes everything is within reach and basically everything you need to fish in one or two Swimming pools will be close at hand. it goes up to your waist so here again just some nylon material and tippet material and a selection of tips so I tend to carry the fishing is as complicated as you want essentially I tend to carry a floating main body on the line section and then several tips so that you know that it would be a mistake to carry, for example, a Skagit.

You can bring this device for high water or if it's a particularly windy day but there's a Scandinavian queue, wait and put in some tips and stuff. It also helps you get a good step and it's better to carry one for me anyway just to make the trip a little lighter. I tend to carry a floating line or floating body where I can vary the level of the tip depending on the prevailing conditions. and I will take these tips from an intermediate float type 3 type 5 type 7 and then also some heavier stuff for example T 11 to 14 T 17 and even T 20 you are essentially going very far so it is best to have all your bases covered , these tips take up very little space so it's worth knowing to pack some of these again, you just need to bring maybe a reel, a running line and then a couple of different heads and then these tips will do the trick for you.

Really add versatility to your setup, but that's a good way to do it from a travel perspective and reduce bulk from a nylon or leader material perspective. Don't fish with lights. You know there are huge fish in this river most seasons. They land fish over 30 pounds and certainly every week between the lodges you'll get fish over 20 pounds even on a calm day, so on a windless day, you know, with a little sun and stuff like that I'm talking about diameter, I really would. Don't go below 0.28 millimeters 0.3 millimeters that kind of diameter Julie normally gives you 15 15 pounds or so so I really wouldn't go below 15 pounds and I would work between if I had to put in a window point three zero two point four zero millimeters that's the type of window you need to work with within your lead material.

I carry some fluorocarbon and especially again for the water as it is right now. I am here at Aralia Lodge on the Rio Grande, the water is very clear. right now, so from a confidence perspective, I like to fish fluorocarbon and again just on different geometers and different breaking tensions, but you know, beyond that, I carry swamp standards, these are from larger reels, but They essentially weigh 15 pounds or you. I know the equivalent of maxima ultra green, so you know everyone, you know it's a highly recommended necessary material, so I've seen some good stumbles. I have some or the equivalent is 15 and I also have a 22 reel for night or low light fishing when the fish are essentially much less tired so that is the leader material to take as well.

There is no night fishing as such in the Rio Grande, it is against Argentine law, but there is certainly fishing into the night and until last dawn, so it is worth bringing a headlamp, only a small headlamp is recommended and packable, so bring a small headlamp. Flies, you know, I've been coming here for 18 years or something, so I've built up quite a selection, most hostels you visit will have a very good selection, as will the guides you go out with on a daily basis, so Bring some of the patterns from home and if you bring them, make sure they are attached to very strong hooks if you want. tying your eyes tends to recommend tying them on a very heavy gauge, so hooks like salmon, rainbow

trout

and also carp books, car books tend to be very strong for their size, so car books also They are a very good way to do it, but if in doubt, leave it until you are down here and the hostels will take good care of you.

This is a box of larger nymphs generally woolly insect type flies. I won't get into these in a nymph box. You can see a lot of rubber. legs and stuff, people often ask why the rubber legs, a lot of rubber legs, and the type of fish flies here, which are so specific, are actually based as much on tradition as anything else. , so many of the original patterns are actually from steelhead. brotherhood rather than maybe the European influences, but certainly the little ones you know, our traditional Stokes tails, squirrel blue and Silver's Undertaker, all those types of flies work, they work well, so I would always recommend bringing some of those with you as well, especially if they're on strong hooks definitely bring them so you know some light on the patterns so a really good fly here is called a green machine.

I also tie a black version, but the green machines are a fantastic fly, bring it in and then, you know, pulling. through some of the faster water and also especially at night, also some sun rays that are particularly long, which I like to fish some of the really long sun rays down here so they reach, you know, a lot. More smalls. sun rays, so seminars and also collie dogs, obviously the collie dog tends to be the heavier variant, so bring some, make sure you know some copper, copper or brass collie dogs, but collie dogs, rays from the sun, the monkeys, they all work very well. so if you have the chance to bring them, don't bring trips, no trips allowed, you know, just a big opening works as well as anything else, and then the other thing you can never do without down here is leeches, so the leeches.

If the water is very cold, sometimes during the day they will use the leeches on the shutters during the day, but then they tend to be at night and last light when that fails, you can use some intruders. The intruders work very well or so as they call it. leeches which are basically just rabbits that stumbled well or rabbits stumbled yeah streamer patterns we've been a flash and things on the black body that tend to be the best color because of the silhouette more than anything and I tend to fish some of these incredibly long. What you'll see there, it's probably six and seven inches long, if not eight inches long.

I like to fish some very long, very long leeches, and I find that they are very successful and they are tied like a Waddington leg and stuff, but again just a single hook has a big 50 pound rig that actually came off the hook. pull the rabbit, you can fish them loose or you can attach that tail hook to the rabbit strip, but yeah, you wouldn't go without leeches. that's the kind of fly leader set Polly Leaders, everything you can from a rod perspective, you can bring a single shank, you know if there is, if you're fishing a tributary for example, you can fish them on Enders, If you really want to fish a player ten feet for an eight, wait ten for more than a seven, if it's a strong rod a rod tempered for seven is fine, but otherwise tempered for a weight eight is a good way to do it and also on the river it is on the main Crandon, if the river is unclear or you know there is very little wind you can certainly get away with fishing one handed, it can't be difficult to work especially if the wind picks up As for the line, you know you want something.

It will load easily and allow you to cover water very easily. This is the Airflow Bomber line that works very, very well for me. It's my favorite, one of my favorite lines to fish at home again. I only fish with floating line and then add tips as necessary, so the further out the quarter, the line from the airflow bomber or the airflow 40 more, maybe that's a good way to do it too, but again yes single hand has a place and then in double hands if you come in the main part of the season I would say late january to february maybe early march most of the time you won't need to go any further beyond a 13 foot rod.

I think a 13 foot rod is a very practical rod for the Rio Grande if you will be arriving early or late in the season if the water is very high or if you are fishing one of the larger lower casts such as Vision Moorea Moorea bad , whether you know how to fly the menéndez essentially where there may be a bigger over. sometimes then maybe a 14 foot would be necessary, but I think most of the time a 13 foot is a good choice for most of my fishing here nowadays I tend to fish changing rods changing rods allows you know, even If it's a windy day, these days I can do most things with shifting rods, technology and even the right lines.

I've really come on in leaps and bounds, so these days I tend to fish more with shift rods, so 10 and a half. at 11 and a half feet number seven number eight that kind of that kind of range and those change rods are fantastic, you know, I probably come to fish them nine times today, so if you bring three rods, bring a ten foot one, number seven, ten feet. number eight single Honda and then a change rod again ten and a half to eleven fourteen seven number seven number eight and then the double hander like a 13 foot for a number eight number nine but again if you are fishing some of the lower casts or at early in the season, something that's a little bit in state or something, for example fourteen feet by another nine and ten, may be a better tool for the job again, just float lines and just vary the tips, this helps you reduce the transportation of spare spools. of my rods like this this is one of the loop cross st travel rods it comes in six pieces the beauty of one like this this is the loop evotech cast I think it's four pieces, but since it's ten feet, you know the sections are quite short and all this makes for easier travel which is also important so I tend to carry them all in one tube so I can get a good four rods in one tube rather than having to carry multiple tubes and this actually fits inside my luggagemain, so it's on my back, so I don't need to record it in a separate article.

Everything is included inside one bag which makes life so much easier so I highly recommend getting one of these. Yes, it's just the capacity allows you to carry several rows in one and makes life much easier than you imagine waiting for additional luggage items to arrive missing all the luggage items final notes you need your wellies you need chest boots obviously I wouldn't go near the prints they just bring breathability and then this layer underneath again, the layers are really important from a boot perspective, the Rio Grande is very easy to weigh, you don't need it personally.

I don't think you need wading staff, you know you can bring them if you're obviously not a very confident wader, but the river bed tends to be gravel, so pondering is very, very easy, so the soul is less importance, you don't need to know studded felt soles, for example, a thing. One particular note is that the Rio brand has didymo. This is actually very important, especially since you essentially know the health of your home waters. Remember that there are Digimon present, so felt soles are not really good to use in the Rio Grande for that reason, because essentially felt soles take a long time. to dry what you can transmit was dedicated to the transmission of your home, so keep that in mind and so a rubber soap may be a much better way to get a couple of bolts in there, there sure isn't any problem, not really. necessary again on the Rio Grande, but again just for the Digibind stuff, I highly recommend bringing rubber soles instead of felt, so that's basically it again, if you know, I think I keep things simple, I keep things compact instead of carrying, you know, multiple reels, just take a look at, you know, these tips that they talk about, so I can use them on pretty much all the lines that I just mentioned, you can just put them on, make sure that the tips are the salmon version.

Don't bring

trout

versions, you know, these have the core of a 24 pound breaking line. You need it and, more essentially, don't bring any of the cheating provisions. Make sure you have enough restriction on the polyester leaders or any leaders you want. you choose to bring them, but again, I can put them on you in different lengths. You know you have them, they're actually anywhere from eight feet to fourteen feet and yeah, the shorter ones are more applicable with one hand, for example, where you could put them. these are pretty easy on the thirteen foot or switch rods as well, but bring a good variety of them and this lets you know that yeah, go lighter, pack lighter and be more compact in your approach and again just Pat.

Put them all on when you go fishing one day, just put them all in your fanny pack and you're good to go.