Mid-Week Fishing Report: Jan 25 – 27, 2020 (2 ½ days)

Now fishing at our Itapará, Xeruini and Jufaris private fisheries

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 two groups ( Killingsworth and Smith) landed over 300 peacock bass, the upper part of the river is performing better than the lower part at this moment. Water level tendency is to drop and although a bit high fishery is very fishable. No siginficant rain in the coming days. Fishing conditions are improving daily.

Jufaris in Dry-Zone N. East -: Last Thursday we received the Lawson group at our camp V in the Upper part of the river and the Schmidt group on Saturday at our camp IV at the mid river, both of 6 anglers. Both groups had a great start landing over 350 peacock bass during the weekend in a nice size mix. Forecast showing no rain and water levels a bit high and dropping, next days are expected to present good fishing conditions.

Itapará in Dry-Zone N. East -: Last week the Reichenau group of 6 landing over 170 peacock bass, largest of which weighed 18lbs. Water levels on this fishery keep dropping towards their optimum level and are very fishable. Fishing conditions for the next days according to the forecasts are excellent (pls. see below).

Today´s Average Water Levels:

in Dry-Zone N. East

Itapará river in Dry-Zone N.East

Mid Xeruini and Jufaris, and in a lesser degree their upper sections in Dry-Zone N.East

Guess work

The Xeruini and Jufaris rivers still present water levels a bit above the optimum, but very fishable, dropping tendency is firm, please see forecast below for Barcelos and Caracarai. The Upper parts of the rivers are leading the tendency.

The Itapará river is dropping and very fishable, it is expected to reach optimum levels in the coming days, please see forecast below for Rorainopolis and Caracarai.

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 week.

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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 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 Santa Isabel do Rio Negro 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.