San Martin - Malles River 2 hours to north April 8, 1980 Just full day of fishing, but it began to rain at 5 PM and kept it up almost continuously through the whole day. This river is separated from Chile by only a low pass and gets a lot more rain than some other nearby areas. The Chilean pine comes thru this pass and we saw the vanguard of scattered individual trees. This area also in a center for the population of European red deer, and the stag season is on now. The view on the estancia where we fished is a center for wealthy stag hunters. We went in and admired the architecture and the stag heads. I fished hard for two hours in the driving rain and hard wind but caught only one little tiddler of 10 inches. Did get a nice rainbow of 2 pounds or so. Schneibut sat in the car until there came a lull in the storm when he rushed out to some water below our fishing spot sheltered by willows and there the rainbows were coming up for some #18 brown exploration. He took 5 in a short time, the two largest 5 and 4 lbs. Woody was there when he landed one of these. Wind & rain started again and Schneibut just came back to the truck and took off his waders. Smart fisherman! He came home early and showered to get warm. The other party had caught a few fish on a big olive streamer fly and Jim Slater was tying up a supply during happy hour. Along the road we found a concentration of hawks arguing over a road killed jackrabbit - Aguilado Grande, Caracaran, and Chilvago.