The province of Mendoza offers wide and attractive possibilities for the fond of the fishing that travels the routes of the country with tourist ends. It possesses great quantity of ambient natural and artificial and artificial hídricos.

It is had the rivers, streams, lakes, lagoons, of interest for the fisherman for the fish that compose them that, if artificial by means of the piscicultura, many fishing they are populated by fish of general interest, especially species of the autochthonous fauna.

The salmónidos spreads easily, because the atmospheres hídricos natural and great part of the artificial mirrors possess cold, clear and well oxygenated waters.

Without a doubt, they are the circuits of the south the richest in this activity. It is also the area where we find the most attractive mirrors of water in the county.

Among the fishing circuits we find:

• Circuit Uspallata
• Circuit The Carrizal
• Circuit Malargüe
• Circuit Valley of Uco
• Circuit San Rafael

The fishing exclusively of salmónidos, it can be practiced starting from Potrerillos in the river Mendoza , above, in the streams Uspallata, San Alberto, Picheuta and others. The population piscícola is composed of trouts rainbow and of stream, of discreet size.

The wealth of this reservoir is composed of pejerreyes bonaerensis, Creole trouts, salmónidos in the varieties rainbow and dinamarquese, and also bagres, in that order of populational importance.

It has been constituted in the forced goal of all salmónidos fisherman by the extraordinary copies of trouts that can be charged in their waters with artificial lures. This circuit offers the possibility to satisfy a piscatorial trip thoroughly. The rivers Atuel is recommended, Ravines, Copper, Poti Madal, Boy, Big, Malargüe, Salted, Tordillo and Valenzuela. There is also almost a hundred of streams.

As fishing circuit it is of wide possibilities. Tupungato has several courses of water with trouts. In Tunuyán it can be practiced the fishing in the river of the same name where it is possible to find Creole trout and bagres. Toward The Historical Manzano, they are the streams The Pircas and the Big of The Gulch, with excellent salmónidos pieces, trout rainbow, and of stream.

The best fishing atmospheres in this circuit are the reservoirs The Nihuil and Big Valley , being the first one to 65 km . approximately of San Rafael . The fishing is of trouts and pejerreyes, in the first ones, in the varieties rainbow, brown and of stream; in second o'clock: the patagónico and Great Paraná. Pieces of very good size can be charged, being able to carry out coast fishing and pier.