Fishing Report: November 11th, 2021
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY
Last Week 4,552 Peacocks were caught.
This week’s three incoming parties will have excellent fishing, but the fourth party forfeited an excellent fishery.
Stats: Last week 24 anglers caught in 6 ½ days an outstanding 4,552 peacocks. This week’s incoming three parties with 27 anglers over this last week-end (2 ½ days) landed 1,341 peacocks with 98 peacocks between 10 and 16 lbs.; 5 between 17 and 19 lbs.; and 2 between 20 and 22 lbs. However, the 4th party of 8 anglers, who still had a great time, only accounted for 183 peacocks of the total catch. They wished to return to their last year’s nostalgic Omero fishery even against our high waters forecasts, and our suggestion to fish another great fall-back river.
This tally excludes the “tamer” tropical species landed, such as, jacunda, aruana, wolfish, pacu, oscar, bicuda, piranha, etc. And, as always, a few monster catfish (pirarara, surubi,etc) were landed by those anglers wishing to fish in deep holes late in the afternoon.
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Ammo: Most effective lures continue to be jigs for the bait casters on the Matupiri Igapo-acu. Topwater lures are becoming MUCH less effective since we have reached the sustainable capacity for the Matupiri and Igoapacu estimated at 8 weeks per season. However, on the Upper Jufaris all lures are working well since we have started up this river last week.
Guesswork:
South West Zone (Matupiri and Igapo-Acu, see map below): Water levels are now rising according to the 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast published 15 days ago (see below). We are moving the last 2 River Trains 400 miles up North this coming week end.
North East Zone (see map below): Although fishing has been average on the Omero Lakes and good on the Upper Jufaris, both areas will fish well next week since water levels are dropping as evidence with the 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast of little rain
South West Zone > 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecasts are for the towns marked in orange below, which affect water levels on the Matupiri and Igapo-Acu. The accumulated rainfall over 2 inches means water levels may rise; between 1.5 and 2 inches means that water levels may drop slowly. On the other hand, rainfall between 1.5 and 1.0 inches means that levels will drop rapidly. Since the average is more than two inches, water levels will continue to rise, which is normal for this time of the year.
Today’s 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast is as follows:
- Manicore: 3.82 inches (marked as “1” in the 3 Month Rain Forecast Map below)
- Novo Aripuana: 3.22 inches (idem “2”)
- Autazes: 1.95 inches (idem “3”)
- Borba: 2.53 inches (idem “4”)
- Humaita: is outside our fishery sphere-of-influence (idem “5”)
Last week’s 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast was as follows:
- Manicore: 2.86 inches
- Novo Aripuana: 3.24 inches
- Autazes: 3.44 inches
- Borba: 2.50 inches
- Humaita: is outside our fishery sphere-of-influence.
North East Zone > 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecasts are for the towns marked in green below, which affect water levels on the Omero lakes and the Upper Jufaris. As seen below water levels will be falling rapidly.
Today’s 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast is as follows:
- Caracarai: 0.96 inches (marked as “1” in the 3 Month Rain Forecast Map below)
- Boa Vista: 0.56 inches (idem “2”)
- Rorainopolis: 1.29 inches (idem “3”)
- Barcelos: 1.60 inches (idem “4”)
- Manaus: 2.24 inches (idem “5”)
Last week’s 10-Day Accumulated Rainfall Forecast was as follows:
- Caracarai: 2.48 inches
- Boa Vista: 1.85 inches
- Rorainopolis: 3.36 inches
- Barcelos: 2.41 inches
- Manaus: 4.00 inches
Sources: wunderground.com and accuweather.com
3-Month Rain Anomaly Forecast In Our Four Fishing Season Zones
(valid for November-December-January)
Source: CPTEC/INPE, Brazil
In the map above, note that our preferred fishing areas for this time of the year, South West Zone and North East Zone are in light blue, which means a slight positive anomaly; ie.: they should receive slightly more rainfall than the expected.