the Dora Baltea springs on the highest mountain of Europe, the Mount Blanc (4810 m.),
it runs for 160 km. and then flows into the river Po.
In its first
part in the Aosta valley it is a typical alpine creek. Before reaching the city of Aosta it becomes wider, yet
maintaining the typical alpine river characteristics, stony bottom, alternating riffles and flats and hosting mostly trouts.
Being originated by a glacier, during the melting of the snow, between May and September,
it is characterized by high water and waxy colour, this period is normally not good for fly fishing.
After the city of Aosta the river is unfortunately subject to water captions, and sometimes its
imponent course is reduced to a brook. After the border with Piedmont the river becomes larger and deeper and
host trouts and grayling.
