Dos very disparate possibilities gathers in this corner Andean to the cañófilos. Anything less than eight dikes and other so many lakes artificial they keep carps of enough size as to tempt at least fan. 

The fishing is almost always made from the banks with cane of bottom or to half depth. In the capital, San Fernando of the Valley of Catamarca it is informed and they offer the courses to arrive to those corners. There is another attraction full with characteristic own. The fishing of trouts rainbow in the streams of the high mountain.

Trouts of the puna: The Puna of Atacama reminds us the height, the salares, the one desert. Volcanos dormidoss with moribund glaciers in their hillsides indicate us the direction, as gigantic guardian sentries of the immense highland. In some places, miraculously, the life flourishes. Thousand flamenco they nest in lakes salted. In vegas - you fence upholstered of vegetation - we find ducks, guallatas and plovers. But the surprise is Antofagasta of the Sierra.

This town whose meaning is "House of the Sun" in language indigenous, it is head of the department homonymous catamarqueño. This area of our country is not very well-known and fewer frequented. One of their característicaas -apart from being an oasis in the desert - it is in fact the possibility that he/she offers for the practice of the sport fishing of the trout rainbow.

River of the Punilla: He/she is born in the not very well-known, fed anfractuosidades of geologic flaws for springs and eternal snow. Their course is serpentine, and to call him laughs it is almost a luxury, because their width rarely exceeds of 4m. and their depth of two. It is tributary of the lagoon of the Alumbrera, closed basin that he/she doesn't receive another source neither he/she has drainage.

Abundant "champas", fox lines, grow in their cold waters. The trouts rainbow don't have too much work in getting their newspaper food that is made up of worms and insects mainly. They watch patiently among the vegetation aquatic and they are very suspicious to any abnormal noise or still to the shade the fisherman's motive.

Difficultly we find exemplary of more than 2 kg. You it imposes, for the atmosphere type and the meek one to reflect of the current of the river of laPunilla, to use flying teaspoons. In many occasions they should repeat throw them three four times... until the fish decides to bite the one lure that we pass temptingly before their nose, where we suspect that he/she is waiting.

If he/she decides to carry out a trip for the northwest, include to Antofagasta of the Sierra. That yes, don't forget that the roads are usually of rubble or earth and that it is need to be informed of their state before going into in it looks for of new horizons.

AREAS OF HE/SHE FISHES