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Brazil Trip - Amazon - Peacock Bass Expedition 2011

When we arrived in Manaus in the heart of the Amazonas on the mighty Amazon river the view takes your breath away the river is about 5klm wide and has a real presence about it. We stay in the Lake Suites motel very nice indeed and await the morning when Marlon will pick us all up to start our adventure. He takes us out to the airport where we board a light aircraft to fly to Barcelos a small town well upstream from where we will then board the Tayacu II to start our adventure on the river itself. 

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Latest Report October - December 2011

Well we start off with Denis & Diane Thompson for a couple of days and have some fun with Barra F/mark, Jack to 48cm, cod, queenfish and some bream. Then to get some Tuna and Spanish mackerel together with some very nice barra and a couple of big cod to boot we had a good time. Thanks you two enjoyed your company and hope to see you again.

Jason Churchill and dad (Don) return for a very good time and start off with 5 barra, 7 nice fingermark, cod, queenies, a stack of nannagai, and sweetlip a good start, but the next day produces a beauty in a very entertaining blue water session with good tuna both Mac & Longtails, heaps of fun Queenies and GT's and "THEN" while casting to fun queenies I see what I think is a bait ball only to realize that they were in fact 20 - 30 very big GT's just cruising around, Jason casts a metal amongst them and "BANG" we're on and away big time, after a long fight we landed a GT of approx 55 - 60lb great fish.

Then we had a session with Tarpon terrific fun and then 7 barra to 75cm and a big girl who was on the day to good for us. What a day. Over the next couple of days we were amongst good tuna to 25 - 30lb, heaps of queenies and GT fun size, sweetlip, parrot, trout, stripy's, Jack, more good barra and a nice golden trevally. The boys had a great time, I as always very much enjoy your company until next time take care.

Next up Rod Johnson and Sue had a couple of days with us with Sue being the mad crazy fisherwoman, she had a ball with good catches of barra, cod, tarpon, GT's, queenies and bream. Rod soon caught on and followed suit with some good catches himself. The blue provided some Tuna action which amazed both of them with their power and speed. We continued with further catches of barra, Nannagai and a session on big fingermark to 75cm. The blue provided more action with Mackerel, GT, Queenies and Barracuda.

Thanks for the time together enjoyed it hope to see you in the not too distant future.

Mid October saw the return of Jason and Sou Van Haaften with mates Tran and Scotty. We caught about 9 nice barra to 68cm, jack, cod, queenies and had some times with the tuna (longtail and Mac's) also some grey mackerel provided some excitement.

Then continuing on with more barra and good fingermark, bream, cod, GT's, queenfish with Scotty getting a beauty of approximately 18 - 20lb. Then we got plenty of grey mackerel to 15lb with a few Jewfish as well. Really good to see you all again, look forward to next time.

Late October early November saw Greg Lowe and friends Ian, Ray and Mark arrive. We had some issues with the weather (winds) but hung in there and managed to still get some very nice fish with the first day producing 14 barra, fun GT's and queenies, bream, cod the grey mac's where still there and a few small Jewfish as well. Next up we went to the Jacky Jacky to get out of the winds a bit, it was a "toughish" day with barra, nannagai, sweetlip, small queenies and GT's some cod, sand bass and our friend the shark, but Greg's cast and hook up of a beaut barra and fight was great to see with it finally being a very fat 85cm very healthy specimen, great to watch her swim gracefully away.

The next couple of days we persevered with the winds and managed to get Queenies to 20lb, different Trevally to 14lbs, more mackerel, trout, some nice bludger trevally, but the sharks took there share of good fish unfortunately. The estuary gave us some barra with Ray getting a nice one to 70+cm, jack, cod etc but the winds were relentless and made conditions very hard. Never the less we still caught some nice fish. I appreciated all your company and look forward to next time and a special thanks to Greg for his gifts, thanks mate.

Next up saw the return of Matt, George, PJ, Chad, Jerome and Grant. They also would have this bloody wind to contend with and yes it did make life a little tough. We started off with some nice fish different types of trevally, (GT, Golden, bludgers, yellow fins ) a 25 - 30lb Spanish mackerel and some good size queenfish. Paul, George and Matt enjoy a day with 26 barra, 4 fingermark, cod, tarpon etc all on lures with good visuals. The estuaries continue to provide some nice fish but you did have to work hard at times. Barra and jacks a couple of cracker Fingermark by George and Jerome, more Fun GT's and queenies, a golden or two, grunter, cod & bream. We had some good fun on barra (Matt in particular doing well) with the boys getting a total of 43 over the four days

Difficult conditions but still some good fish thanks fella's hope to see you again in the future.

The Bremauer's return with Ben, Bert, Ron together with Peter and Joe. We start with a good day 14 Barra to 67cm and a few really good ones lost, F/mark, cod, a blue Salmon to 70cm, Fun GT's and queenfish (one to 14lb) several mackerel a mix of spotty's, greys, and Spanish to 1m, also two cobia we had a couple of really strong runs but alas lost them, so a good start.

Day two was a mixture with one boat having the luck. Some 24 barra to 73cm, fingermark, those small but fun GT's and queenies, more cod, bream, grunter and we got into the mac's again. The wind was making it hard next day produced another mixed bag with 16 barra, queenies and some reef fish. A hard morning but a much better arvo.

Over the next few days the winds were relentless and we stayed in the estuaries but managed to still get some good fish with all the usual species, we did sneak out on the last day and got amongst some good Tuna action, Queenfish and a very good sized Tarpon. Thanks everyone it was tough at times (compared to last year) but still an enjoyable time with some good fish. Hope to see you next year.

December saw the return of Ian and Robyn Hillman and John Mason. Off we go and into some good barra action with 13 on day one together with some very nice fingermark, cod, queenfish, GT's etc. Next day and we find a snag which we had a ball with, many barra, fingermark, cod and grunter fighting to get to your lure first it was a great hour or two. We continue with more fun also with some small black jew which gave us a run for our money on light gear.

We returned to the Jacky Jacky to find another one of those snags from heaven with fish pushing each other out of the way to get to the lure first, fantastic fun, barra to 82cm, good fingermark, jack, grunter, good size GT, one big queenie, sweetlip, nannagai they just kept coming, we estimated that we caught ten species off that one snag alone. Last day out to one of the Islands weather was flat as, what a day plenty of Tuna to 25lb, Spanish mackerel to 28lb, Nannagai to 10lb, trout, stripy's and still came back to the estuary in the afternoon and got a few barra.

As always enjoyed your company and the fishing, until next year.

Final couple of days for the year in mid December with Brian and Lien Wise produced some excellent Tuna action (which was late) good size golden trevally, in dead calm conditions beautiful. Then to finish off with a great day in the estuary with 29 barra, a few fingermark, a mixture of cod, GT and queenfish was indeed a great way to finish the season.

Thank you everyone for what was indeed another good year and we look forward to 2012 and wonder what excitements nature has install for us.

Take care see you soon

Tim

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