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Amazon Peacock Bass

River Plate Amazon Outfitters has been a pioneer in Peacock Bass fishing since 1992. Over the years, our company has continuously evolved in order to provide our guests with unprecedented levels of services, facilities, comfort and safety. Our experience and high-quality services have made us the top choice of the most prestigious independent U.S. agents for Peacock Bass fishing trips to the Amazon. One of the services that distinguish our Peacock Bass fishing programs from others are our truly unique and highly mobile, deluxe, air conditioned Fly-In Floating Cabins, which we introduced in 1996. Sport fishing yachts, commercial fishing boats and even survival fishing must stop where low water prevents passage. Yet beyond these barriers is where the great Peacock Bass fishing starts! With the Fly-In Floating Cabins, our anglers are able to access these Amazon pristine fisheries like never before! 

 

Floating Tent Camps

Although many land-based lodges that offer Peacock Bass fishing in the Amazon are situated past these natural barriers, they have no mobility to seek better water levels. Plus the areas where they are located become rapidly overfished within 2 to 3 hours upriver or downriver. Our Fly-In Floating Cabins, however, move daily to unfished river segments and spend the night along the Amazon’s Caribbean-like beaches. Once our small 8-guest parties arrive in Manaus, they are whisked to camp in one of our three turbo prop Cessna Caravan floatplanes.

 

Peacock Bass

Of all the incredible gamefish in the Amazon basin, the one that has received the most press is the peacock bass. Their remarkable, explosive topwater strike, combined with an astonishing ability to break heavy lines/leaders and straighten even stout saltwater hooks, makes them one of the most sought after species in the Amazon basin. Peacock bass are not a true bass such as the largemouth and smallmouth bass (Micopterus Sp.) found in North American waters, but comprise a genus within the family Cichlidae. Cichlids are a diverse family of tropical fish found primarily throughout Africa, South America and southern Asia. Although all peacock bass species are highly temperature sensitive fish, some have been successfully introduced in tropical areas from Panama to Hawaii. The latest transplants (C. ocellaris and C. monoculus) are happily swimming in many of the major freshwater irrigation channels in Dade County, Florida. No permanent populations of the giant species, C. temensis have ever been successfully transplanted outside of the Amazon basin and Lake Guri.

 

The Río Negro has its headwaters in Venezuela, in the flat western lands of the Amazon State. In its long road southward, this river defines part of the frontier between Venezuela and Colombia. From there on, it enters Brazil and little by little takes course to the East, toward the city of Manaus, where it joins the Amazon River in its long journey to the Atlantic Ocean. The dark color of its water is notorious, especially when it contrasts with the light brown color of the Orinoco or the Amazon rivers. Its dark color is due to the presence of tannins. These are complex organic compounds, manufactured by the plants of the region and used to repel or warn off herbivores.