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     For over two hundred years after Columbus found the New World, brave, gold-crazed explorers searched for “El Dorado”, the fabled city of gold hidden deep in South America’s wild jungles. For a somewhat shorter time (3 years now), another group, less brave, but just as crazed (although for fish) has been searching for an “El Dorado” of a scalier kind.
     This dorado is pure fishing gold. Salminus maxillosus, the South American freshwater dorado. An exceptionally strong swimmer and jumper, dorado typically range in size from 5 to 10 pounds, although twenty pound trophies can be common at the right time and place. While the current IGFA all-tackle record is 51 pounds, giants of up to 70 pounds have been caught in nets.   Their intense, almost radiant, golden color is marked with holographic black horizontal stripes. This patterning, coupled with their powerful jaws and razor sharp teeth have earned the dorado the sobriquet “River Tiger” in South America. Once fooled with a bait, their arm-wrenching strike is a testament to their aggressiveness and ferocity. As soon as an angler sets the hook, these wild leapers explode out of the water in a series of outrageous jumps, truly making them an angler’s “El Dorado”.
      As desirable a fish as they are, in recent years, dorado fishing in South America has become a far less desirable proposition than our consistently dependable peacock bass and payara trips. Over-fishing, economic unrest and poisoned rivers have made formerly pristine fisheries unacceptable options for most American sportfishermen. Many agents and operators, in a struggle to find fish for a clientele that increasingly yearns to get its hooks into the spectacular fighting dorado, are settling for extremely unattractive areas featuring giant dams and highly populated and developed shorelines.
     That’s simply not acceptable for us and our clientele, so we've been searching until we could find a safe, productive, attractive and exciting alternative to the choices that were available. Finally, after three years of searching, we’ve found an option we can love in Argentina's Corrientes region.

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For more information about available fishing trips for dorado ? other exotic species, contact us, Toll-free, at;
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We are pleased to be able to arrange trips to the right place at the right time, anywhere in the world, with the most reputable, professional outfitters. References are available upon request.