Fishing near Puerto Varas, Los Lagos

Puerto Varas sits on the southern shore of Lago Llanquihue in Chile's Los Lagos region, surrounded by some of the most productive trout and salmon water in Patagonia. The area draws fly anglers to rivers like the Río Petrohué, Río Maullín, and Río Puelo, while Lago Llanquihue and Lago Todos los Santos round out a fishery built around rainbow trout, brown trout, and Chinook salmon.

Top waters to fish near Puerto Varas

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Brook Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis

Cauque de maule

Odontesthes mauleanum

Atlantic Salmon

Salmo salar

Chilean Silverside

Odontesthes regia

Chinook Salmon

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Palm Ruff

Seriolella violacea

Patagonian Redfish

Sebastes oculatus

Pink Cusk-eel

Genypterus blacodes

Red Cusk-eel

Genypterus chilensis

Snoek

Thyrsites atun

Southern Hake

Merluccius australis

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