Peacock Bass Fishing on the Amazon
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Welcome to one of the most exciting fishing adventures anywhere; a week exploring the fabled waters of the Amazon basin for MONSTER PEACOCK BASS with Big Bass Adventures.You will experience the most spectacular scenery, sunrises, sunsets,and wildlife that you have ever seen. The majestic Amazon basin will display its miles and miles of beautiful clean water, pure white sandy reefs, and thousands of the most exotic bird life you can imagine. Fresh water Pink River Porpoises cruise by all day long filling your senses with memories that will last forever.
I have fished south Florida and Venezuela for peacock bass and was disappointed in both. After I went to Brazil I was sorry I had wasted the money on the others. The peaceful and serene atmosphere is one of the most relaxing, yet invigorating I have ever experienced, not to mention the spectacular peacock bass fishing. My batteries were recharged like never before when I returned from the Amazon.
Big Bass Adventures offers you the finest fishing experience of a lifetime aboard the fantastic Otter houseboat. Your week on the Amazon will be aboard the Amazon’s newest, largest (7,750 square foot) and finest houseboat.
The fancy yachts of Brazil were not built for fishing trips. When you put guides, clients and all of the staff on a yacht it becomes very crowded. We run a second smaller houseboat along with the Otter that provides a home for our guides and carries all the extra fuel, batteries and spare boat parts. This ensures that our clients are never crowded and the Otter’s fantastic experienced staff makes you the number-one priority.
The fishing for the awesome peacock bass in the Amazon is second to none. The peacock bass is one of the most beautiful freshwater fish in the entire world. You will be fishing from a fully equipped bass boat and can expect to do battle with acrobatic fish in the 10-20 pound range and maybe even bigger. Most of this heart stopping action is on top waters. There is nothing like a peacock blowing up on a top water lure.
Once you experience the heart stopping strike and ensuing fight with the Amazon’s peacock bass, the memories will be burned in your mind forever. Many days when I am fishing somewhere, my mind drifts back to the wonderful memories of fighting peacock bass in the Amazon basin.
Everything you need but your clothes and personal items are included in the package, including rods, reels, line and lures. This ensures that you have all the right tackle to do battle with these “terrors of the jungle”. We have over 40 tackle boxes of lures to ensure that you will always have the right bait. This alone saves you hundreds of dollars. I have to admit, I always pack a couple of my favorite Shimano Cronarchs as I can’t go fishing without them. Feel free to bring along you own private selection of reels and lures if you wish.
In extreme low or high water conditions, peacocks simply do not want to bite the big top water lures. However, our experienced guides know the fish will still bite but on different lures. So, we have a wide variety of jerk baits such as red-fins, magnum rattletraps, and our favorite which is the Kaempfer Speed Minnow. Speaking of our guides, most of them have been with us since the first trip 15 years ago. They are known to be the very best in the Amazon basin.
All of the rivers we fish are the best, producing more peacock bass in excess of 20 lbs. than any other river in South America. The IGFA all tackle world record (27.5lbs) came from the Rio Negro, one of the rivers we fish. The rivers we fish are all the color of dark tea caused by tannic acids. Due to the acid content, mosquitoes can’t breed. So guess what, no mosquitoes.
One of the neatest things that I like on these trips is the ability and eagerness of the Otter manager to move if you hit an area hard and the fishing slows down. Most of the time, after you have left the Otter in the morning, you will continuously move down the river fishing new spots. I will never forget the first day when I knew we had covered 10 or 15 miles. I knew we would spend 30 or 40 minutes getting back to the Otter. Imagine my surprise when we cranked up, went around the first river bend in 5 minutes and there was the Otter waiting for us. They had moved during the day with us.
I inquired about this, and was informed by the Otter manager that they continuously move to keep us in the new and better territory. This man definitely knows that you can’t beat an area to death. Sometimes at night while I was sleeping the Otter would move 20 or 30 miles down the river to put us in the best possible areas that produced. This is typical of the outstanding service that you can expect on this fishing trip of a lifetime.
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