![]() ![]() He stocked brown trout from Hamburg, Germany, and rainbow trout from the McCloud River in California into the Ewan, Herminita, Menendez, and other rivers, thinking that some European sport could relieve some of the isolation on the island of Tierra del Fuego at the far end of the South American continent. John Goodall, a Scottish settler who inherited estancias Viamonte and Haberton on the Rio Grande, between 19 stocked tributaries of that river hoping to provide a little recreation. On a planet where fish habitat everywhere seems to be constantly downgraded, and every year opportunities get worse and worse, it stokes your soul to find a river winding through open ranchland that is untouched and unchanged, and both scientific studies and angler results show brown trout fishing is getting better and better with every passing decade. The oceans are depleted by 90 percent in terms of large gamefish, and you have to walk far and work hard to find a single native Eastern brook trout due to habitat loss and acid mine drainage. Guides in the Florida Keys have been scratching their heads over a lost generation of bonefish. to where wild populations are just barely hanging on in a few streams in Maine. Atlantic salmon have been decimated in the U.S. ![]() Steelhead runs in the Pacific Northwest are a shadow of their former glory. There are many places in the world where the fishing isn’t nearly as good as it used to be. This article was originally titled "The Silver One" in the Oct/Nov/Dec 2016 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine. ![]()
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