Tailwater · Mixed · Castilla y León / Salamanca (below Santa Teresa reservoir), ES

Río Tormes (Santa Teresa trout beats — Salamanca)

Río Tormes (Santa Teresa trout beats — Salamanca) — Aceña del Arrabal

The stretch below the Santa Teresa reservoir is where the modern Tormes reputation lives.

Prime · Brown Trout
Klinkhammer · 14-18
Primelive now
About as good as it gets
River steady at a fishable height. On the feed top to bottom — start on the rises with a dry, drop a nymph if they stay down.
75% confidence
What moved it
  • Level1.02 mLast reading 14h ago
  • Water temp11.2°C
  • ClarityClear
Today's fly
Klinkhammer
Klinkhammer14-18
High-confidence seasonal pick
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Level
Steady
1.02 m
Last reading 14h ago
Water temp11.2°C
ClarityClear
Weather21°C
WindS 12 km/h
Pressure1014 hPa
Rain · recent0.1 mm
Rain · ahead0.3 mm

The nearest gauge doesn't record temperatures, so we've estimated it — defer to the river keeper's advice.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Ideal
11°C est.ideal 10–16°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Brown Trout
When
Through the Castilla y León trout season — opens 3rd Sunday of March, closes 31 July. Spring olives April through May; summer sedges in evening hours; sin muerte stretches extend through autumn.
Where
Santa Teresa trout beats below the reservoir; cooler reservoir releases keep fish moving into the warm months. Pool tails, riffle heads, and the seams behind boulders.
Method
Upstream dry to risers; dry-dropper through the riffles. The Tormes runs clear granite water — long leader, fine tippet, careful approach.
Kit
9 ft #4 — Spanish granite spate default. Floating line, 12 ft leader to 4 lb fluoro. Studded boots — granite cobble runs slick.
Why this works
Excellent — water temperature is working for you, but time of day is the limiting factor today.
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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

Backed by regional invertebrate surveys; no sampling on this exact reach yet.

Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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Freshwater ShrimpHatch
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Summer River MidgeHatch
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Large Dark OliveHatch
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box
Permits & access
Permit required — see local rules.
  • Castilla y León fishing licence required
  • Four cotos on the Tormes in Salamanca province, all under mixed or catch-and-release regimes
  • The Junta says most of these sections require C&R for trout
  • Free-access stretches are generally sin muerte with a valid licence
  • Check the annual Castilla y León tramo map and order before travelling — detail is section-specific.
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Other water nearby · 5
Embalse de Santa Teresa
8.0 km
Barbel · Carp · Pike
Río Tormes — Villagonzalo II (Hucho)
18 km
83
Brown trout · Barbel
Reservoirs near Salamanca / lower Tormes
20 km
Rainbow trout · Brown trout
Río Corneja system (research priority)
30 km
0
Brown trout
Zapardiel de la Ribera
37 km
Brown trout
Gallery · 2
  1. Río Tormes (Santa Teresa trout beats — Salamanca) — Aceña del Arrabal
    Aceña del Arrabal
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

The stretch below the Santa Teresa reservoir is where the modern Tormes reputation lives. The Junta de Castilla y León describes this as one of the best trout-water sections in Salamanca province — water where trucha común lives and reproduces, not just stocked put-and-take. The managed beats are El Chorrón, Tormes, Galisancho, Tormes I, and Alba de Tormes — collectively covering over 27 km of access-improved river. Below these trout beats, the Villagonzalo II coto holds Spain's only legal hucho fishery (see separate entry). This is a bigger, more fertile, regulated river than the upper Tormes — think tailwater character with steady flows, depth changes, and fish that respond to methodical, structure-oriented fishing rather than romantic dry-fly covering of pretty pocket water.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 75%
How the 81 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time40 × 13%5.2
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity64 × 12%7.7
Conditions total= 81
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
Directions
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Seasons & zones
  • Barbel 1 January → 31 December

    Barbel is fishable year-round in Castilla y León's aguas libres, but a mandatory catch-and-release (zero-kill) window applies 1 May–15 July each year to protect spawning — anglers must release all barbel caught in that period (Orden MAV/1506/2025). This is a harvest rule, not a closure, so the season stays open throughout the year.

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