Mid-Week Fishing Report: Nov. 02 – 04, 2019 (2 ½ days)

OMERO LAKES AT ITS FINEST …

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.

Omero lakes in Dry-Zone N. East -: This weekend we received the Morris group of 7 anglers, who enjoyed excellent fishing conditions landing 405 peacock bass in just 2 1/2 days within a mixed bag that included Surubim, pirarara, aruanã, cará-açu, cachorra, piranha, traíra e jacundá. Last week the Bilberry group had an excellent tally with 1.052 landed peacocks, largest of which weighed 18lbs and within a mixed bag of species including Pirarucu, Pirarara, Aruanã, Cara-açu, Tambaqui, Cachorra, Traíra, Jacundá, e Pirapitinga etc. Fine weather and good water levels expected in the coming days.

Maú river fishery in Dry-Zone N. East -: Breaking water at our Maú river fishery , this weekend we received the Murphy group of 4 anglers, who had a good start with water levels a bit on the high side, but very fishable. Weather conditions will be good for the rest of the week, and fishery is expected to improve conditions in the coming days.

Upper Jufaris fishery in Dry-Zone N. East -: This weekend we received Galloway group of 5 anglers, who had a good start landing 340 peacock bass the largest of which weighed 19lbs. Weather conditions will be good for the rest of the week, and water levels are expected to keep dropping tendency, camp reports that propellers, jumpin minnows, yozuri and rapala subwalk are the best performing lures this week.

Roçado fishery in Dry-Zone N. West -: Although this fishery is not at its optimum, and the not so good weather forecast, the Marambio group insisted in braving the adverse conditions this week and making the most of it. Fishery is expected to improve conditions in the coming days. We have no data of this camp since communications have been severed by a storm and have not been reinstated yet.

Today´s Average Water Levels:

in Dry-Zone N. East and West

Omero lakes fishery and Maú river in Dry-Zone N.East

Upper Jufaris in Dry-Zone N.East and Roçado fishery in Dry-Zone N.West

Guess work

The Maú river in Dry-Zone N. East is dropping and presents good fishing conditions. Rain forecast confirms tendency for the coming days (pls. see below forecast for Caracarai)

Water levels in Dry-Zone N.West at our Roçado private fishery have stabilized due to new heavy rain episodes North of the basin, fishing conditions are not good but expected to improve in the coming days.

The Omero lakes in Dry-Zone N.East continue to present excellent fishing conditions, weather forecast confirms this (pls. see below forecast for Barcelos)

The Upper Jufaris presents a bit high water levels, but dropping and very fishable. Forecast for Caracarai, and Barcelos (see below), further confirm the tendency.

Blue dots represent water level monitoring stations where levels are rising and yellow dots where levels are dropping. Our areas of interest are marked with red (high) and blue (perfect) circles.

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The triangle within Barcelos, Caracarai and Santa Isabel do Rio Negro in the area of influence of our Upper Jufaris, Maú and Omero lakes fisheries forecasts above.

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Find below the quarterly rainfall for Nov, Dec, Jan showing that we should expect normal rainfall in the area of our private fisheries (white).

Find below the accumulated rain report of the last 30 days compared with the historical data, and presented at the left as deviations from this norm (anomalies), further confirming the above tendency.

Water level measurements at the Tapurucuara station (see below) continue to be within the historical parameters. The Roçado fishery drains directly at this station.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

Water level measurements at the Caracarai station (see below) are within the historical parameters . The Omero lakes fishery as well as the Maú river are down river from this station at the Branco basin, water levels are excellent at this time. Please see red circle in stations map above.