Post by Grubb.
When I was growing up in Los Alamos and pursuing my juvenile delinquency, whenever the cops showed up someone would shout, “Truchas! Truchas!” and we would make like a trout and try to slip away. Here in Patagonia I look for Trucha on the menu. The first time I ordered trout for dinner in Calafate I thought they had mistaken my garbled Spanish and served me salmon.
The slice of fish was larger than the slender rainbow trout portions I was accustomed to getting for my main course back home. The size of the trout in this region are large. A 36 pounder was caught in one of Bariloche’s lakes a couple years ago. If that had happened in New Mexico we would have suspected a radiation leak. Here the trout feast on a tiny fresh water crab called pancora.
On our trip sightseeing the seven lakes we saw a guy in waders fishing the shallows where one of the mountain streams fed a lake. It was explained to us that this angler only had a couple more days to try his luck before the fishing season closed for the winter. This gives the trout time to replenish. Given the numbers of tourists we’ve seen here during what is considered the late autumn off-season, the fish have their work cut out for them when the spring comes. “Truchas!” my friends, “Truchas!”
Truchas? No comprende?😂
Glad you got some good fish! We like seeing truchas on menus here in Spain. Does happen, but rarely.
I think the multitude of freshwater lakes keeps the restaurants stocked with trout. But trout fishing season closes from May 1 to Nov 1 when the trout are protected during breeding season.