Mid-Week Fishing Report: Feb 15 – 17, 2020 (2 ½ days)

JUST FISHING TOWARDS CARNIVAL …

Week end´s tally (2 ½ days):

Note: this 2 1/2 days report is to rush last weekend’s conditions to our incoming anglers.

Xeruini in Dry-Zone N. East –: Last weekend we received the Dudley group of 8 anglers who are enjoying great fishing conditions and had a good start landing over 190 peacock bass. River keeps dropping and fishing conditions are expected to be good in the coming days.

Jufaris in Dry-Zone N. East -: The Elder group of 6 are fishing in the Upper part of this fishery, exceeding the 200 peacock bass. Excellent fishing conditions during the weekend and forecast for the coming days without any significant rain episodes (pls. see below). Great top water action.

Itapará in Dry-Zone N. East -: This week we are hosting the Smith group of 8 anglers. They are enjoying perfect fishing conditions and have already landed over 30 peacock bass, largest of which weighed above 18lbs. Water levels keep dropping, fishing conditions for the coming days are expected to be excellent (pls. see forecast below).

All hostes report great top water action and we are hosting this week several fly-fishermen.

Today´s Average Water Levels:

in Dry-Zone N. East

All fisheries in Dry-Zone N.East

Guess work

Jufaris, Xeruini, and Itapará fisheries are within their optimum levels. Dropping tendency is firm, please see forecast below for the triangle Barcelos, Caracarai and Rorainopolis. The Upper parts of the rivers are leading the tendency.

Blue dots represent water level monitoring stations where levels are rising and yellow dots where levels are dropping. Our area of interest are marked with a red circle.

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The triangle within Barcelos, Caracaraí and Rorainopolis in the area of influence of our Xeruini, Jufaris and Itapará fisheries forecasts above showing almost no rain episodes in the coming days, some rain episodes towards the weekend that will affect the incoming groups mildly.

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Find below the quarterly rainfall for Feb, Mar, Apr, showing that we should expect below normal rainfall in the area of our private fisheries (red), confirming dropping tendency for the quarter.

Find below the anomaly forecast for the coming fortnight:

Water level measurements at the Caracarai station (see below) are now within the historical parameters. Please see red circle in stations map above. The Xeruini, Omero and Itapará drain into de Branco river and will keep dropping.

Note: red line are 2019 water levels, the light blue strip is the 15 to 85% probability, the dotted line is the median and the yellow line is the historic minimum

Water level measurements at the Barcelos station (see below) are within the historical parameters, Jufaris river draining into the rio Negro is expected to continue dropping tendency. Please see red circle in stations map above.