The sport fishing in the Chaco is divided in two big very defined and different areas. One corresponds to the Bermejo river and the other one to the binomial Paraguay-Paraná. In the first one, the fishing is more guided to the food" "obtaining. it is made with primary methods and of the utilitarian type as the "traps", strong lines tied to branches or you release thick canes that are sunk in the chalky ravines and they maintain a small fish, I live, threaded well in one or two fishhooks empatillados.

This system is completed with the fishing with arch and it darts that the members of some indigenous reservations still make and that is carried out in the big fords of scarce depth, where the step of the biggest fish is watched, of which many times are distinguished the dorsal fin and it leaves of the loin. It constitutes a curiosity for the visitor.

In the next lagoons to both systems, taken place by the growing ones periodic, inhabits a fish of great sport value, the tararira. Their dispersion, always in accordance with studies and confirmations in different areas, is carried out in many cases for the plumage of the aquatic birds. It is omnivorous but prefers fish and other alive animals. It constantly watches the banks and takes possession of batrachians and small rodents.

The fishing in the river Paraguay and the river Paraná is carried out inside the general panorama of the area denominated "area of the gilding" that embraces from the fork of the two big rivers until the latitude of Asunción in the First one and of Inns in the second.

In the Paraguay you dilute up of Humaitá you the sliding ones and pozones happen, famous for the abundance and variety of fish. There vogues are fished of up to 5 kg., pacúes of 6 and 8 kg.; surubíes of more than 20 kg., maguruyúes of equal weight and other very looked for species.

It can also be practiced, in the less mighty arms, the fishing of launching type spinning with bait, in the area of wild fruit-bearing trees.

This panorama would not be complete if we left aside like fishing the island of the Cerrito. By itself it configures a place of concentration of high quality. In the North Tip, or fork of the Paraguay and the Paraná, one of the areas takes place of it itches more varied and of better yield of the whole northeast of the country