A large, popular reservoir on the upper Tormes south of Salamanca, below the granite of the Sierra de Béjar. Unlike the deep Arribes canyon reservoirs downstream, Santa Teresa has broad, gently shelving margins and weedy bays that warm reliably through the summer — and that makes it the genuine warm-water sight-fishing water of the Salamanca group. In the warm months barbel and carp cruise the shallows and flats, giving classic spot-and-cast fly fishing, while pike hunt the weed edges and bays. There is an ecological shadow: wels catfish (siluro) are established here and a real conservation concern for the native fish. This is the inheritor of the old 'lower Tormes reservoirs' character — the one to fish for cruising barbel on a beetle.
- Reservoir
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