La Villa de EMB Fishing Report -Week 9

La Villa de EMB Fishing Report
Week 9
Feb 28-Mar 7, 2026

The first week of march ended, we had a group that came for the second year. the river was low until Thursday, There it grew And got a little dirty. Since Thursday we use sinking lines and larger flies. Emb, green machine and rio grande queen were the best flies of the week. The fishing was very good, 10 percent of the catches were 20 pounds or more. Everyone in the group took out some 20 pounds and even some 2 o 3. We landed 96 fish, 30 over 15 pounds, 10 over 20 pounds. Top rod of the week was mark walton with 23 fish on the net. Christian Morrison got the biggest fish with 24 pounds.

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Water Conditions
Water color and visibility: clear, rose on Thursday.
Water temperature: 8c to 14c.
Water level: high water.

Weather Conditions
Wind speed ranges through the week:the wind wasn’t strong.
Air temperature ranges through the week : 1c. to 19c.
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.
Greeen machine, emb and río grande queen were the best flies of the week.
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 .
Sinking skagit (game changer ), with high water in deep pools.
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: 5.
Total number of fish landed for the week: 96.
Weight of the biggest fish landed for the week: 24 pounds .
Number of fish landed over 15 pounds: 30.
Number of fish landed over 20 pounds:10.
Average weight: 9,5 pounds.
Notable catches: great 24 pounds male .

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