Fishing in Portugal.
The
Guadiana
river system, forms a border between southern Portugal and Spain at its
lower tidal reaches. It is considered one of Spain's foremost Comizo
barbel rivers. Its tributaries and many dam formed lakes make for
amazing fishing.
There are a few companies in Spain offering some excellent
fishing adventures, but none in Portugal with accommodation actually on
the Guadiana river until now.
We are based in the small historic town of Mertola where we have
two houses. We fish a section of the river about five kilometres
upstream to a large weir, and about three kilometres downstream to a
large deep pool area, which is fresh water tidal.
The river varies from fast flowing tumbling glides where, during
the spawning run in April and May, you can take
Shad
on the fly or small silver spinner, to deep slow pools where with one
rod you can bag up with small barbel and carp while the other rod and
bite indicator waits for the big comizo or big river carp.
The specimen barbel fishing could be just as good as in Spain.
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