Fishing near Comandante Luis Piedrabuena, Santa Cruz

Comandante Luis Piedrabuena sits on the left bank of the Río Santa Cruz in the department of Corpen Aike, Santa Cruz province, Patagonia. The city is widely recognized as the Argentine Capital of Steelhead Trout — a designation earned by the annual runs of sea-run brown trout that push up the ría to spawn. The Río Santa Cruz, up to 500 metres wide in places, is the centrepiece of local fishing and water-based recreation, drawing fly-casters and spin anglers from across the country and beyond.

Top waters to fish near Comandante Luis Piedrabuena

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Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Perca

Percichthys trucha

Puye

Galaxias maculatus

Puyen grande

Galaxias platei

Rainbow Trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss

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