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Giant Peacock Bass

It’s no secret that, pound for pound, big peacock bass are the most aggressive, hardest fighting fish on earth. What’s not as widely known is the inside secret to finding and catching those largest of all jungle giants that slam your lure like a freight train.

Private Fisheries

Exclusive entry permits to fish in various Indian reserves and government preserves.

Pristine, Private Fishing Areas

Exclusive entry permits to fish in various Indian reserves and government preserves ensuring the best Peacock Bass fishing experience in the world. River Plate has led the way in negotiating with Indian tribes and river communities for the exclusive rights to fish pristine waters. Through patient negotiation and fair payment, River Plate has brought enormous value to its Indian partners, while securing for its fishing clients an unprecedented level of fishing quality. No one in the Amazon can match River Plate in the extent and quality of its fishing areas. They couldn’t yesterday. They can’t today. And they won’t be able to tomorrow. The reason’s simple: River Plate’s long history of fair and respectful treatment of its Indian partners and river communities and their lands and waters has insured its continuing ability to offer the best, most varied, and most extensive peacock bass fishing experiences in the world.

Fly-in Floating Cabins

The “River Train” Concept

The “River Train” Concept River Plate’s Fly-In Floating Cabins are the ultimate solution for optimizing shallow drafting mobility. Fish in the wild and exotic Amazon River in style with comfort. The infrastructural aspect that distinguishes our Amazon Peacock Bass fishing trips is our truly unique and highly mobile, deluxe, air conditioned Fly-In Floating Cabins, introduced in 1996, providing unprecedented level of services, facilities, comfort and safety. Undependable water levels and over-fishing are chronic problems with fixed-base operations. Many land-based lodges are situated in exclusive private-water areas but they can neither move to seek out optimal water levels nor move far away enough from their central location to reach unfished waters. Our Fly-In Floating Cabins move, with normal water levels and river conditions, to unfished river segments, staying overnight along Caribbean-like white sand beaches.

Giant Peacock Bass

World’s best Peacock Bass fishing experience in the wild & exotic Amazon River.

Giant Peacock Bass

Giant Peacock Bass has become one of the most sought after freshwater fish species in the world. River Plate Anglers has been a pioneer in Giant Peacock Bass fishing in the Amazon river basin for more than 20 years now (both baitcasting and fly fishing). Over the years, our company has continuously evolved in order to provide our guests access to the most exclusive (privately leased) productive fisheries, plus an unprecedented level off services, facilities, comfort and safety. Peacock bass are pound for pound arguably the most aggressive, hardest fighting fish on Earth. This acrobatic and colorful jungle species readily takes flies, poppers, jigs, and noisy top water lures agressively, and offers unparalleled experiences for the most demanding angler, both for numbers of fish and sizes. It is not uncommon for a peacock bass fisherman to catch and release 20-30 fish per day… as well as payara, bicuda, pacu, redtails and other exotic species.

Social Development

River Plate Anglers has pushed hard to implement successful stewardship initiatives that put communities in charge of their local resources. Utilizing our long term Community Based Preservation Policy and structure, River Plate Anglers has persuaded Communities to ban all commercial fishing and almost all lumbering, and it has helped reduce the amount of high-negative-impact farming taking place in a number of water basins. We have promoted sustainable activities as milk and derivatives production, exotic fruit processing, artisan souvenir production, fishing lure production as well as organic vegetable growing for which we generate a sustainable demand throughout our sport fishing and eco-tourism operations. In 2019 these activities brought benefits to 80% of the families in the Communities of the rivers where we operate.

Thank you for great fishing! Hope to come back to you soon. Best regards. Managing Director. Royal Safari S. A.

I spent my 21st birthday last January peacock bass fishing in the Amazon with my grandpa, Charlie Reichenau. I couldn’t have wished for more. I caught my first 20 pounder the day before my birthday and topped it off with a 21 pounder on my 21st birthday. Trip of my dreams!

My group of three returned to Brazil in January 2016 for another week of peacock bass fishing with Rod & Gun Resources. We were scheduled to fish northwest of Manaus, but the water levels were very low. Fortunately for us, J.W. Smith changed our destination about a week before we left and sent us to the upper Matupiri River. We had an amazing week of fishing with most fish caught on big top-water High Rollers. In six days of fishing, the three of us caught 596 peacock bass with 65 over eight pounds. Our biggest fish were four at 14 pounds, two at 16 pounds, and one at 18 pounds.