In Lago Cashiboya, many of the fish from the river are also found here. A few that aren't include the following. One you won't want is the 19 inch Trahira (Hoplias malabaricus discussed here, pictured here) in this lake. If you do, just cut the line. They have a strong, vicious bite and are slippery enough that many fisherman find out each year that they should have cut their line. This same lake has a piranha (Metynnis luna). This one you won't catch on a fishing line though. You don't even have to worry about it biting you. This is a filter-feeding piranha which only filters little organisms from the water to eat. A similar looking fish is good to eat from that lake. It is the 10 inch Palometa (Mylossoma duriventre), as opposed to the species of Palometa in the lake. And another similar fish from the lake is the Paco, or Pirapitinga (Piaractus brachypomus, here given the name Pacu, which is what it's called in the USA). It reaches 36 inches and 25 Kg, but eats fruit which falls into the lake from the trees overhead. The Doncella (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, here called P. tigrinum the Tiger Shovelnose) is a prized eating catfish and sport-fish as well. It reaches 41 inches, has yellowish flesh, and occurs in this lake. This lake also has the highly prized Chambira-challua (known elsewhere as the Biara) (Rhaphiodon vulpinus) which gets to 28 inches. Another fish in this lake which is eaten by locals to restore good health is the 5 inch (Tetragonopterus argenteus, click on the picture on this page ). Maybe if you get stung by a stingray, you might......well, that would be up to you. An unusual fish in this lake is the Pechito (Thoracocharax stellatus, click on the picture on this page), which skims along at the surface unless a big fish approaches it, or a tasty bug flies over it. Then it leaps out of the water to catch it. It flaps its fins like the wings of a bird and flies as it wishes. Dang thing has the shape of the head of a hatchet, but that's all to make its wings, er, fins stronger.