Chata, Patacha or Rasca Sever do Vouga
There are still some fishermen on the Vouga River today, especially in the place of Sóligo, parish of Pessegueiro do Vouga. They go to the river to get tasty fish, the most common species of which are barbel, boga and lamprey, since the shad, abundant in other times, has disappeared.
Lamprey, with which tasty dishes worthy of the best Portuguese cuisine are made, are caught, or as they say in popular slang, hooked, when it rises to spawn from February to May, the time most prone to floods.
This activity created in the people of the riverside area of the Vouga River, a deep-rooted passion for fishing, a passion inherited from many generations.
The bateira was and still is the means used for these purposes, although with very little expressiveness.
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