Belesar is the great impoundment of the middle Miño — fifty kilometres of flooded river winding through the terraced vineyards of the Ribeira Sacra, the largest reservoir on the river. It is calm, deep, green water, the kind the tourist catamarans glide along beneath the canyon walls. The fly fishing is a warm-water affair: carp and barbel in the shallower arms and the side-stream mouths, taking a nymph or a beetle when the day is warm and the light is good. Boats run freely here, which suits a water of this scale. Pike are present and introduced, as they are across so much of Iberia now. Come for the setting as much as the fishing — there are few more beautiful places in Spain to put a fly on still water.
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