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Golden Dorado, the stealthy gold bar

Bonjour les amis! Nous nous retrouvons une nouvelle fois pour parler d’un poisson connu pour sa couleur flamboyante : le Golden Dorado. Son nom scientifique est « Salminus brasiliensis ».
Ce poisson est présent dans quelques pays d’Amérique du sud, comme l’Argentine, la Bolivie, le Brésil, l’Uruguay et le Paraguay. L’équipe Rodmaps a eu la chance de le rencontrer à deux reprises. La première fois en 2012 en Argentine et dernièrement en 2019, toujours dans le même pays.

Morphology of Golden Dorado

Its golden color is the first thing that stands out in Golden Dorado. And yet, other characteristics should be remembered, such as the hardness of its bone structure. Hard as a rock, the hooks have great difficulty in entering the jaw, which is very frustrating given the number of fish landed.

Its body is also very dense and particularly muscular, which is normal because it is a migratory fish that moves in areas of strong currents.

How to fish for Golden Dorado?


The Golden Dorado behaves similarly to our brown trout. It protects itself in the counter currents created by various obstacles such as rocks, dead woods or water lilies. Always cast your lure upstream of the structure so that it is always presented in front of your eyes.

Regarding artificial baits, we recommend dense 130mm jerkbaits that are generally used on tuna hunts, large cranckbaits with strong vibrations and lipless! The surface decoys worked, but in areas with very little water.

For the line we recommend the braid in 40lbs or 50lbs. Bottom line steel is highly recommended or fluoro 100lbs because its teeth are relatively sharp.

Golden Dorado: Fishing rods


Once again we will direct you to multi-strand rods for the comfort of transport
Deps Huge Custom H2N-64R 3 falls
Golden Mean Deep Core Monster MHS-610 - 4 Strands
Deps Huge Custom H1N-60R 3 falls
Beast Flogger Casting BFC705H-5 strands
Wanderlust casting of JabbersWLC655MH + 5 strands
Deps Huge Custom HS1OS-66R 3 falls
Wanderlust spinning of Jabbers WLS62M + 5 parts

Lures that worked: Evergreen Amazon, OSP Blitz Max DR, Evergreen Popper Frog, Tackle house K-Ten 140, DEPS Evoke 4.0, DEPS B-Custom 1oz.

Enjoy !!

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Rodmaps

Rodmaps is first and foremost the story of Nicolas and Matthieu, two friends with a passion for fishing. Ever since we were children, our passion has driven us to travel all over France and around the world in search of adventure and trophy fish. Through Rodmaps, we want to share our passion for fishing with as many people as possible and help them discover the joys of this sport, because yes, fishing is a sport!

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