Steelhead & salmon
11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon
Open the checklistARGENTINO (Lago) - PN Los Glaciares - Permitido pescar desde el 01/11/2026 al 31/05/2027 y durante octubre del 2027.
Our translation: ARGENTINO (lake) - Los Glaciares NP - Fishing allowed from 01/11/2026 to 31/05/2027 and during October 2027.
Set for Los Glaciares National Park part of the lake. Outside the national park, Santa Cruz keeps the lake open all year.
Reglamento de Pesca Deportiva Continental Patagónico 2026/2027 (Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Parques Nacionales del Sur)
Comisión Consultiva de Pesca Continental Patagónica (Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro and Parques Nacionales) · checked 2026-11-05. Dates change each season: confirm them there.
No provider we read publishes a machine-readable feed on this water. We show no number rather than a guessed one.

Lago Argentino is a lake in Santa Cruz, Argentina. Santa Cruz's fisheries secretariat (Secretaría de Estado de Pesca y Acuicultura) lists it in Annex I of Disposición 241/26, its waters for the 2026/27 season. The Patagonian inland fisheries commission of Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro and the national parks lists it in the national parks annex of its 2026/27 sport-fishing regulation.
Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish. Most waters here need a rod licence or permit and often a beat booking or club ticket; the listing pages under Regulations say which.
Nothing on this page grants or implies access.
Restrooms within 2 miles of Lago Argentino in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.
No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.
Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.
Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.
Each line is an official list that names this water. Those pages are the authority on seasons, licences, limits and closures for each beat or reach; read them before you go.
Listings are unclaimed: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.
No guide within 60 km yet.
No shop nearby yet.
The species the agency lists here; presence varies by reach and season.
LD: sin límites de captura para la trucha De Lago (bocón) y salmón Chinook, otros salmónidos 2 ejemplares.
Our translation: Daily limit: no catch limit for lake trout (bocón) and Chinook salmon, other salmonids 2 fish.
Listed as: trucha De Lago (bocón), salmón Chinook.
Listed by the agency
Matched on the fish the agencies list for both waters first, then the same water type, an official designation or flagship listing on both, and a similar mapped size where USGS hydrography covers both.
At most two waters per country. A shared fish is a listing, not a promise: presence varies by reach and season.
Like Lago Argentino? Same fish, US waters.
Featured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Lake Pend OreilleHenrys Lake from Henrys Lake State Park, Idaho. Photo: James Postema, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Lake Pend Oreille.
Featured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Nehalem RiverLake Billy Chinook, Oregon. Photo: icetsarina, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Nehalem River.
Blue RibbonRepresentative photo · not Bear LakeEnnis Lake, Montana, in March, with the Madison Range beyond. Photo: Gloria Cabada-Leman, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr Not Bear Lake.
Steelhead / salmon waterRepresentative photo · not Lake SakakaweaNavajo Lake from Navajo Lake State Park, New Mexico. Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Lake Sakakawea.
Special-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Fielding LakeWindfall Lake in winter below the Coast Range, near Juneau, Alaska. Photo: Joseph from Cabin On The Road, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Fielding Lake.
Featured sport-fishing waterRepresentative photo · not Anderson Ranch ReservoirEagle Lake, Lassen County, California, with dry Horse Lake in the foreground (aerial). Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Anderson Ranch Reservoir.
A steelhead and salmon fly-fishing checklist: a switch or spey rod (or 9′6″ single-hand) in 7–8 weight, Skagit lines and sink tips, swing flies, studded boots and cold-weather layers, with estimated prices and where to buy.
11′–13′6″ two-hand rod, 7–8 weight, Skagit head + sink tips · Steelhead and Pacific salmon
Open the checklistChironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.
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Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.
A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.
Live readings come from the named provider when the page is shown, under the licence shown on each card. Designations, species and the flagship note link to the agency or body that publishes them; this page copies only the list wording and the species names. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the OpenStreetMap feature “Argentino Lake, Lago Argentino, Santa Cruz, Argentina” (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), found with Nominatim; a point on or near the named feature, approximate. Water type is our own classification.
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Guest ranch · 7.5 mi