You can't catch Salamance. But you can catch Bagon, the first form of evolution for Salamance.
Go to meteor falls and go up the waterfall. Then go to the ladder and then another ladder. When you're then there should be an old couple and a dragon tamer. Jump down the ledges, keeping to the left side. Surf a bit into a small area, and go up until you get to a small bit of land. Keep walking around then you should find your Bagon.
Then you play the patience game and train it up, it evolves into a Shellgon fairly quickly. Then around level 50 it learns fly and evolves into Salamance.
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The strongest dragon type in pokemon Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby, is the legendary pokemon Rayquaza. In terms of non-legendary pokemon, both salamance and flygon are strong dragon types.
salamance is a giant salamander
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The only pokemon to get fly by leveling up are Salamance and Rayquaza.
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