Week 18 was one of River Plate’s classic weeks. Avid anglers landed 60 or more fish a day with 4 fish a week over 18 lbs and 7 anglers had fish over 20 lbs a true evidence of how once more cherry-picking the best water levels amongst 4500 miles of private rivers rewards those who trusted our 35-year community preservation program.

The perfect mix of rising low waters and super active hungry peacocks set the stage for line-screaming battles, bent hooks, personal milestones, all in the jungle exuberance framing life long memories.

TOTAL ANGLERS: 46
TOTAL PEACOCKS: 6991
OVER 10 LBS: 381
OVER 20 LBS: 7

More detail in the chart below.

The Shields party of seasoned Amazon anglers searching for lots of action and variety of tropical fish-they got what they wished!. They were challenged with exhausting amounts of top-water explosions, with many 80-fish a day per boat, and landing an impressive 23 lbs monster.

RAINFALL GUESSWORK: WATER LEVELS at our cherry picked rivers are rising almost to the jungle threshold line, but still keeping the lurkers out of the jungle into fishable waters in great numbers!

We are currently fishing the less rainy portions of our South East Dry Season Zone as shown in the rainfall map below, in the purple oval.

7-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast Map

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However, 30-day rainfall anomaly forecasts indicate rising water levels. Therefore, we will be moving 4 of our 8 River Trains 600 miles north into the North-East Dry Zone.