Stillwater · Granite · Castilla y León / Salamanca (Arribes del Duero)

Embalse de Aldeadávila

Embalse de Aldeadávila — 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇪🇺 Presa de Aldeadávila (Castilla y León, España, 27-2-2025)

A reservoir on the Duero itself, deep in the Arribes del Duero natural park where the river forms the Spain–Portugal border in a sheer granite gorge.

Poor · Pike
Large pike streamer / baitfish (2/0–4) · 8–10
Not the day for it
Good wave on — drift country. Not much stacked in your favour today. Worth an hour if you are nearby, not worth the special trip.
5% confidence
low-confidence read — verify locally

Peak season here starts around September — worth planning ahead.

What moved it
  • WindW 14 km/hGentle breeze
Today's fly
LP
Large pike streamer / baitfish (2/0–4)8–10
Strip it for fish chasing fry or in coloured water.
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Gentle breeze
W 14 km/h
N
W
from the west
Wave20 cm ripple
Water temp
Air temp31°C
CloudClear
Pressure1013 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

Some readings unavailable — check directly before fishing.

Reservoir levelas of 10 Aug
94% 10-yr norm
Steady
92% full
High & steady
-2 ptsvs seasonal norm
+5 ptsvs last year
+1 ptsthis week
Reservoir near full — settled fish across plenty of holding water.
How to fish it · for Pike
When
Pike here are a non-native invasive. High summer fishes poorly, and where catch-and-release is legal warm-water release mortality is high; elsewhere the official advice is to remove any pike caught from the water rather than return it. Defer until water cools below 19°C.
Where
Water at 30.8°C — too warm to target pike today: poor sport, and where catch-and-release is legal (designated pre-2007 waters) warm water makes released fish die. Where it isn't, the official advice is to remove any fish caught from the water rather than return it. Either way, wait for cooler water.
The plan
Plan A

Water at 30.8°C — too warm to target pike today: poor sport, and where catch-and-release is legal (designated pre-2007 waters) warm water makes released fish die. Where it isn't, the official advice is to remove any fish caught from the water rather than return it. Either way, wait for cooler water.

Plan B

Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.

Watch for

Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.

Either bank or boat

Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.

Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

Hatch predictions

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Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Black MidgeHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
Reservoir BuzzerHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
Lake OliveHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
1
2
2
2
1

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Pike fly box
LP
Large pike streamer / baitfish (2/0–4)Top
8–10 · Streamer
Strip it for fish chasing fry or in coloured water.
HW
Heavily weighted baitfish for deep work (1/0–4)
12–16 · Fly
A dependable searching pattern for these waters.
OB
Olive/black woolly bugger (6–10)
8–10 · Streamer
Strip it for fish chasing fry or in coloured water.
Permits & access
Permit required — see local rules.
  • Castilla y León licence required (Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero); note the Portuguese border — fish the Spanish side under Spanish rules
  • Barbel protected during spawning
  • Wels catfish and zander are invasive in the Duero — retention and handling rules apply; check current regulations.
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Condition match
41%
Cloud25%
Wind65%
Temp25%

Conditions are away from Embalse de Aldeadávila's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.

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  1. Embalse de Aldeadávila — 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇪🇺 Presa de Aldeadávila (Castilla y León, España, 27-2-2025)
    🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇪🇺 Presa de Aldeadávila (Castilla y León, España, 27-2-2025)
  2. Terrain map of the venue
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About this water

A reservoir on the Duero itself, deep in the Arribes del Duero natural park where the river forms the Spain–Portugal border in a sheer granite gorge. It feeds one of the most powerful hydroelectric stations in Spain, and the setting is dramatic — cliffs of bare rock dropping straight into cold, deep, clear water with griffon vultures overhead. This is not a sight-fishing flats venue: it is a deep canyon water dominated by predators, with zander and very large wels catfish (siluro) in the depths and pike and barbel where the side-streams and shallower necks let fish hold. Bank access is genuinely difficult on the gorge sections; the upper necks and tributary mouths are the realistic fly water.

  • Reservoir
  • Granite
Why this score
  • High temperatures may push fish deeper and reduce surface activity.
  • Reservoir near full — settled fish across plenty of holding water.
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