Mid-Week Fishing Report: Feb 29 – Mar 02, 2020 (2 ½ days)

LAST WEEK

SEASON 2019 / 2020

Week end´s tally (2 ½ days):

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

Xeruini in Dry-Zone N. East –: Last weekend we received the Giaudrone group of 8 anglers who are enjoying great fishing conditions and had a good start landing over 200 peacock bass within a mixed basket that included aruanas, bicudas, piranhas, etc. Fishing conditions are expected to be good in the coming days, pls. see forecasts below.

Jufaris in Dry-Zone N. East -: The Freeman group of 5 departed last weekend after fishing the Upper part of this fishery for 4 days, they landed over 400 peacock bass, landing several trophies, 17,18,19,20, and 21 lbs.. Fishery is now also officially closed for this Season.

NOTE: This week is our last week fishing in our private fisheries for this Season. Our preservation metrics are showing that we are reaching the limits set in our sustainability policies, thus we are suspending operations until next season.

Today´s Average Water Levels:

in Dry-Zone N. East

All fisheries in Dry-Zone N.East

Guess work

Jufaris and Xeruini fisheries are a bit below their optimum levels. Dropping tendency continues, please see forecast below for the triangle Barcelos, Caracarai and Rorainopolis.

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 significant rain episodes in the coming days, some mild rain episodes towards the Barcelos area of influence are expected.

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Find below the quarterly rainfall for Mar, Apr, May showing that we should expect below normal rainfall in the area of our private fisheries (red arrow), confirming the normal water cycle.

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 already a bit low, 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 are within the historical parameters, Jufaris river draining into the rio Negro and already a bit low, is expected to continue dropping tendency. Please see red circle in stations map above.