FR: July 9-16, 2022
BOREDOM PROOF
3,047 PEACOCKS BY 8 ANGLERS
Cherry picking for low water levels pays off.
Stats: From July 9th thru the 16th 8 anglers landed in 6 ½ days 3,047 peacocks with 163 in the 10 to 16 lb category, and two 18 pounders. See table below. This tally excludes a multifarious array of other less aggressive tropical species such as the jacundá, apapá, wolfish, pacú, bicúda, and pirañha.
Click on the table to see full size
Lures: Since water levels are at an excellent low level almost ANY lure or fly works even small plastic white coffee cups. The larger fish are caught on large 6-inch topwater lures almost any color. For fly fishermen large bucktail streamers with sinking tipids worked well.
Guesswork: We hereby wish to inform our incoming anglers where might our six River Trains be operating according to the expected water levels across our 10 Private Rivers. All water levels will continue to be high North and up to 200 miles South of Manaus, as illustrated in the below design.
However, in the South East Zone, 350 miles South East of Manaus, as predicted many weeks ago water levels will be perfect, as illustrated in the below design.
As such, we have moved a SECOND River Train into this Dry Zone into our NEW exclusive Torrentoso River and, we are also moving a THIRD Train in to Mid-Marmelos to receive 3 parties as of next week. Low water levels should last until mid-August, after which it may be TOO low for fish to be active. Scroll down to the Fishing Zones map to see in purple the zone we are currently fishing. The Torrentoso River is not shown yet in this zone, because it is our newest private river.
These low expected water levels are evidenced by Today’s and Last Week’s 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast. These forecasts are for the towns below printed in purple which impact water levels in the South East Zone.
Today’s 10-Day Forecast is as follows (by order of importance):
- Humaita: 0.26 inches (Marked as “1” in the map below)
- Apuí: 0.04 inches (idem “2“)
- Manicore: 0.12 inches (idem “3“)
- Novo Aripuana: 0.25 inches (idem “4“)
- Borba: 0.18 inches (idem “5“)
- Barcelos: 1.70 inches (Marked as “B” on the map, included only as reference since it is OUTSIDE our selected Dry Zone)
Last Week’s 10-Day Forecast WAS as follows:
- Humaita: 0.16 inches (Marked as “1” in the map below)
- Apuí: 0.07 inches (idem “2“)
- Manicore: 0.09 inches (idem “3“)
- Novo Aripuana: 0.20 inches (idem “4“)
- Borba: 0.27 inches (idem “5“)
- Barcelos: 2.60 inches (Marked as “B” on the map, included only as reference since it is OUTSIDE our selected Dry Zone)
Sources: wunderground.com and accuweather.com
The 10-Day Forecast over 2 inches means water levels may rise, and under 2 inches means that water levels may drop. Since the actual averages of Today’s and Last Week’s 10-Day Forecast in all towns monitored in the South East Zone are less than a half inch, water levels will HASTILY continue to drop.
3-Month Rain Anomaly Forecast In Our Four Fishing Dry Zones
(Valid for July-August-September)
Source: CPTEC/INPE, Brazil.
Our guesswork is further evidenced in the map above. The white color means normal rainfall forecasted for the next 3 months. Note that our current selected fishing area from June to August, the South East Zone, is in white meaning that there is NO anomaly forecasted; i.e.: this zone should receive the expected rainfall for THIS TIME of the year which is historically very little rain (less than 0.75 inches accumulated in 10 days).
THIS WEEK’S GALLERY
(Apologies, we will only receive photos later today)