Fly fishing trout

The lakes and rivers of the south of Argentina surprise visitors for the variety of fishes that inhabit them. Angling for trouts is an excellent actitity and every year anglers from all around the world visit the Patagonia to meassure their strenght against these salmonids of pure race although they are not native of this region.

Fly fishing trouts is a very popular activity due to the crystal clear waters and the fighting of the fish once it has been cheated by the bait. Introduced at the beginning of the XIX century by the expert Pascasio Moreno, the patagonic trout is famous for its abondance but also becuase of its size an attractiveness.

There are various kinds of trouts:

- Rainbow trout: that owes its name to the range of colours responsible for its attractiveness and popularity. They go from purple to red and green and splashed with dark spots.

- Sea trout: known also as native trout for its ability to adapt to the water of the lakes and of the sea. You can obtain units of up to 10 kilos and has the typical silver colour of the marine species.

- Brown trout: is the most savage og them all and also the most common af all the species that inhabit the waters of southern Argentina. You can obtain units of up to 14 kilos. It is brown and golden and its abdominal is white with spots surounded by a grey circle.

- Stream trout o salmonade trout (because of its pink meat as the one pof the salmonds) it has a greenish colour with red clear spots and in its back and the superior part of the head.

- Others: ladlocked salmon, perca, patagonic silverside, silverside bonaerense and carpa. The rest of the native species (bagres, puyenes, peladillas y el salmón encerrado) should be released to the water alive and with less possible damage.