Month: February 2020

Mid-Week Fishing Report: Feb 01 – 03, 2020 (2 ½ days)

FEBRUARY BEGINS WITH PERFECT FISHING CONDITIONS …

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 ( Hamlin and Best) landed over 450 peacock bass, largest trophy caught and released weighed 22 lbs. Water levels are almost at jungle level and weather has been perfect and fishing conditions are expected to continue during the rest of the week (pls. see below). Several fly-fishermen in these groups. Jufaris in Dry-Zone N. East -: The Agarwal group of 6 fished in the Upper part of this fishery, with an excellent size mix within a basket 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 -: Host reports 2 trophies above the 19lbs. and tally exceeding the 300 landed peacock bass mark. Water levels are almost at their optimum and dropping, fishing conditions for the coming days are expected to be excellent (pls. see forecast below). Mid water lures are working best for this fishery.

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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 reaching 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 week. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–

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 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.

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