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The Dorado lives exclusively in Argentina and is a war-like fish. A natural fighter, brave and strong, its open and clear battle represents a real challenge to both amateur and experience fisherman. It has a totally bony mouth, with strong teeth, that requires the use of steel fishing wire, stiff rods and sharpened hooks.
Fisherman from all over the world keep on their minds the image of the Dorado jumping acrobatically out of the water, as if it were a golden bar twisting in the air when it is joined by the sun and splashed by the water His temperament and predator attitude take him to attack without mercy multitude of little and medium fish.
The season goes from October to April.
Paco Riestra Shooting & Hunting will bring you face to face with the most combative fish that populates our waters, the freshwater Dorado.
You can do this at two different places: Goya or Esteros del Iberá at the province of Corrientes with a maximum of 6 pax.
At the banks of the Paraná River, the area offers a fishing paradise. The Paraná river with the intricate Delta, the Santa Lucia, the Batel and the magnificent Corrientes River, which flows from the Iberia Swamps, constitute an extensive set of options for the fisherman. Argentina "Dorado" Fishing Testimonies
Argentina "Dorado" Fishing... The “Dorado” is known by being a voracious, strong fish, and by the fight that presents when we have the opportunity of capturing it; is emphasized for its colors and so private tones. Also called the "King" is one of the most coveted species in Argentina, the classical leaps at the moment of its fishing do it still more attractive. As for its reproduction, the “Dorado” belongs to the oviparous. Its diet, logically, is based on fish of smaller size with some preference with regard to its victims but with a very extensive diet, even another “Dorado”. It can be found in the rivers: Paraná, Pilcomayo and Bermejo. The fishing we can practice it so much with lines of fund as of floating, each one of these options with its private charms. Embodying preferably with the fishing of shad, dark, thick-shelled, all of them are accept with pleasure the yellow sly person. Every line should include the fundamental requirement of a leader of steel of approximately some 30cm. to avoid the cut that surely would produce its teeth, being able also to practice the fishing with decoys. The season for its search is from principle of the spring and the summer as for the zone of the Paraná low and River Plate, in the meantime in the zone of the Paraná upper begins the fishing of the “Dorado” in the middle of the winter, finding it generally in the estuaries of the rivers, and where currents be produced or tracks, seeking the necessary oxygen diet. Other factors that benefit the locating of this species are the moment of descent of the water and the clarity of the same, doing simpler their fishing.
The “Dorado” is a migratory fish having as factor the temperature of the water, other factors are the need to reproduce and of being fed, is a great swimmer and he is habitual that travel through hundreds of extensive kilometers doing the area of fishing. In general lines, the “Dorado” delays some three years to reach 50 cm. depending on the zone where he inhabit, sufficient time for begin to be reproduced choosing for the spawning high and hot water. We will cite subsequently some fishing boats that were themselves becoming classics, for the fishing of the “Dorado”:
“Esquina” (Province of Corrientes): It is a zone that is emphasized for the variety of places that offers its great delta for the fishing, composed by streams, channels, gaps and islands, deep water and sandbanks. It is a place in transit but also of continuance of the “Dorado” since chooses it as place of spawning.
“Paso de la Patria” (Province of Corrientes): It preferred so much for the fishing of the “Dorado”, as also for that of other large species among the ones that the Surubí is emphasized. It is found benefited by the confluence of the River Paraguay with the River Paraná, also by the numerous streams of the place that contribute fish of smaller size that seeks the “Dorado” and that the bed of the river is found covered by rocky grounds, excellent for this type of fishing. |
