La Villa de EMB Fishing Report Week 8

La Villa de EMB Fishing Report
Week 8
Feb 21-28, 2026

February is over, an excellent group was formed. At the beginning of the week fishing was difficult, but it improved the last 3 days, we ended up having a very good week, great fishing.
Using a green machine as a nymph was the best of the week.
We landed 89 fish, 25 over 15 pounds, 2 over 20 pounds.
Top rod of the week was Pierre martini with 30 fish on the net.
Stephen crane and Stephen Clark got the biggest fish with 21 pounds.

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Water Conditions

Water color and visibility: clear.
Water temperature: 8c to 14c.
Water level: low water.

Weather Conditions

Wind speed ranges through the week:the wind wasn’t strong.
Air temperature ranges through the week : 4c. to 21c.
Wheather observations (sun, rain, fog, etc.):nice weather.

Fishing Conditions

Flies that are working the best: Different sizes of sunray shadows, small salmon flies, nymph ( scuds,red tail, emb, prince, pheasant tail), green machine , for the last hour (intruder, leech, sunray ).
scandi with poly leaders drifting or striping according to the speed of the water.
In deeper pools , sinking lines with nymphs dead drifting, and green machine.
Greeen machine was the best fly of the week, always move it, with floating and sinking lines.
Fly lines (tips, heads, lengths, densities, etc) that are producing the best: Skagit heads with different lengths of T-20,17,14, 11, scandi with polyleaders .
We recommend bringing two rods, one to use with scandi and another with skagit lines, and also a single handed rod or switch rod for the upper part of the river.
Length and strength of tippet and leaders: 7 to 12 feet. 15 to 20 pounds.
Middle and upper part of the river is the best.
We started to see some darker fish.

Fish catch statistics

Number of anglers for the week: 6.
Total number of fish landed for the week: 89.
Weight of the biggest fish landed for the week: 21 pounds .
Number of fish landed over 15 pounds: 25.
Number of fish landed over 20 pounds:2.
Average weight: 8,5 pounds.
Notable catches: Pierre got 7 fish in one sesion.

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