Fishing packages in Ayolas: what they include, who sells them and where to stay

In Ayolas, the town of the Yacyretá dam, fishing shows up in the guide in three forms: the package that bundles room, meals, a guided boat, fuel and bait into one price per day; the fishing trip sold on its own, for those sleeping elsewhere; and the houseboat, which leaves from Ayolas and sails the Paraná. This note brings together who sells each one, with what each operator publishes, and where to sleep in the area. What an operator does not publish is not here: ask them directly before booking.

Who sells fishing packages in Ayolas and what they include

These are the operators in the guide selling fishing in Ayolas, with what each one lists as included:

• Hotel Ayolas, with 22 rooms on the banks of the Paraná: the per person, per day package, at Gs. 1.200.000, includes a room for two, all three meals, a boat for two with a guide and a 40 HP engine, 30 litres of fuel, bait and drinks on board. Bookings take a 30% deposit. It also rents just the boat with a local guide, and then fuel and bait are charged on top.
• Posada Mysko, in Barrio San Rafael on the banks of the Paraná: it runs two trips, the anchored one ("anclada"), with the boat, a local guide, 30 litres of fuel, three dozen worms and a bucket of corn, and the "variada", with 40 litres of fuel and two dozen morena baitfish. The price of each trip is on its page. The rooms, ten of them for 32 guests, are Gs. 150.000 per person with breakfast, and the restaurant also serves lunch and dinner.
• Club de Pesca Yacyretá, the Ayolas fishing club: it rents boats with a fishing guide, fuel and bait, and has a campsite, a shore fishing area and four rooms sleeping 18. Ask the club for prices.
• Isla Paraíso, an island in the middle of the Paraná: it arranges fishing days out on the river with boat, guide and bait, and has cabins, camping and day passes. The transfer boat, both ways and with life jackets, leaves from the Club de Caza y Pesca Yacyretá, 5 km from the island. Prices are per group and listed on its page.
• Hotel Doña Ramonita, in Coratei: 31 rooms and bungalows on a 12-hectare property, with fishing trips on its own boats with its own local guides. Package price on request.
• Marcão de Ayolas Hotel d'Pesca: a lodge hosting anglers for over 20 years, with boats, guides and full board, working in Portuguese. Package price on request.
• Barco Pérola do Iguaçu: a houseboat that leaves from Ayolas and sails the Paraná in Paraguayan and Argentine waters, run by a Brazilian company and working in Portuguese. Package price on request; since it also sails in Argentine waters, ask which fishing licence applies on board.

None of these operators lists fishing tackle or the MADES licence as included. Unless the operator says otherwise, the tackle is yours: to stock up there is Ayolas Pesca y Camping, with branches in Coratei, San José Mi and Pilar. What a package leaves out and what to ask before sending a deposit are covered in fishing lodges in Paraguay: what a package includes; what the day on the boat is like, in dorado fishing in Ayolas with a guide.

Where to stay in Ayolas for fishing: hotels and guesthouses

Accommodation in the area is spread between the town of Ayolas, Coratei, the Paraná islands and Barreto Kué, near the reservoir. Outside the packages above, the boat is arranged separately: with the guesthouse itself when it rents one, or with Club de Pesca Yacyretá.

In Ayolas. Besides Hotel Ayolas, Posada Mysko and Marcão de Ayolas Hotel d'Pesca, covered above:

• Posada RM (Ayolas): steps from the Paraná, 7 rooms for 20 guests, breakfast included, built for anglers heading out early.
• Posada Mbusú: on Avda. Mariscal López, by the Paraná, with large rooms and cabins for couples or groups of anglers.
• Posada Arary: room for 30 guests.
• Hotel Ranoni: three stars, on Avda. Súper Carretera, with twenty rooms with air conditioning, private bathroom, wifi and TV, parking and 24-hour service.

None of these four lists its own boat: to go fishing, Club de Pesca Yacyretá rents boats with a guide, fuel and bait.

In Coratei, 12 km from Ayolas. Coratei is a rural locality in the Ayolas district, on the Paraná, with the municipal beach. Besides Hotel Doña Ramonita, the guesthouses that list a boat or a fishing service:

• Posada Amanecer junto al río (Coratei): facing the Paraná, ten rooms sleeping two to six, each with bathroom and air conditioning; they rent boats and have a local river guide. Gs. 120.000 per person.
• Posada Don Chiquito (Coratei): a rural fishing guesthouse steps from the shore; it rents boats for fishing and cooks home-style lunch and dinner on request.
• Quinta Roma Coratei: four air-conditioned rooms sleeping around 20, a fitted kitchen and its own boat. Gs. 100.000 per person.
• Posada Arena y Sol (Coratei): by the beach, with a grill hut, pool and fishing service. Gs. 100.000 per person per night without breakfast; lunch and dinner extra.
• Quinta Coratei: a main house and 4 apartments for 25, pool, fishing, boat rides and horseback riding, breakfast included.
• Posada San José (Coratei): five air-conditioned rooms, around 20 beds, pool and camping; it cooks with the local river fish and runs boat trips to the Paraná islands.

Also in Coratei, with no boat listed: Hotel Doña Edy (Coratei), with the Edy guesthouses 1 and 2 for groups, at Gs. 140.000 per person with breakfast, and Posada Luz María (Coratei), a family guesthouse, at Gs. 70.000 per person.

On the islands. On Yacyretá island, Camping Bajo la Luna sits on the bluff facing the Paraná, with air-conditioned rooms with private bath, camping, a grill and a kitchen; Isidro Vera - Baqueano de Yacyretá, the island's fishing guide, works out of there. Isla Paraíso, in the middle of the river, has cabins and camping, with the boat transfer described above.

Near the reservoir. Saite Experiencia is a hotel in Barreto Kué, Ayolas, near the Yacyretá reservoir.

The full list, with direct contact, is at Ayolas and the Paraná Corridor. And to plan the trip day by day, there is a three-day dorado itinerary in Ayolas.

How to get to Ayolas

Ayolas is in the department of Misiones, on the banks of the Paraná. According to Hotel Ayolas, it is 430 km by road from Foz do Iguaçu, entering Paraguay over the Friendship Bridge, and 310 km from Asunción.

On the Argentine side, the Ayolas-Ituzaingó border crossing (Corrientes) runs over the dam, and in November 2024 it was opened to cars. Hours and conditions: Ayolas and Ituzaingó, the Yacyretá crossing. Entry documents coming from Brazil and the licence for foreigners: fishing in Paraguay, a guide for Brazilian anglers.

Before you book: closed season and licence

The closed season overrides any package: it usually starts in the first days of November and on the Paraná runs until December 21. On those days sport fishing is closed, package or not, and each year's exact dates come from MADES: see our page on licence, closed season and sizes. Beyond the closed season, MADES can ban by resolution any fishing aimed at a concentrated shoal, as it did in September 2026 with a shoal of dorado on the Paraná. If a measure like that is in force, it shows up on that page too. What you catch each month: the month-by-month calendar.

The MADES sport fishing licence is mandatory, and none of the packages above lists it as included: ask when booking whether the lodge arranges it. If not, you can get it online through SIAM or at the MADES regional office in Ayolas: see the licence step by step. And the Paraná level at Ayolas before heading out: today's river levels.

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