Mid-Week Fishing Report: Nov. 23 – 25, 2019 (2 ½ days)

Spending Thanksgiving week: just fishing in the Amazon

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 -: Last weekend we received the Saldanha group of 8 anglers, landing 195 peacock bass in just 2 1/2 days and enduring some moderate rain episodes. Host reports good top water action propellers being the favored lure. Fishery continues to yield a varied assortment of sporting species, including the sleek aruanas and sturdy red tails, water levels are stable and expected to resume dropping tendency in the coming days.

Itapará in Dry-Zone N. East -: This Saturday we received the Shulyak group group of 8 anglers coming from Russia, Yuriy, Serhiy, Grzegorz and Josef are visiting us again. Water levels still a bit on the high side, and have risen due to last week´s hard rain episodes, but fishable. Weather outlook is fine and dropping tendency is expected to resume in the coming days.

Lower Jufaris fishery in Dry-Zone N. East -: Last Saturday we received the Molinari group of 8 anglers, including Lopes, Savier and Pinto visiting us one more time. They started by landing 128 peacock bass. Forecast for the rest of the week looks good though water levels are a bit on the high side after last week´s rain episodes, yet they are fishable. Camp host reports that mid water lures, are working best.

Upper Jufaris fishery in Dry-Zone N. West -: Last Saturday we received the Kuehn group of 6 anglers, including Jason McGovern visiting us one more time. They had a good start landing 262 peacock bass. Forecast for the rest of the week looks good though water levels are a bit on the high side after last week´s rain episodes, yet they are very fishable. Camp host reports that mid water lures, rapalas and yozuri are working best in this scenario.

Kabori fishery in Dry-Zone N. East -: The Ishankulov group of 8 arrived last Saturday and started the week landing 108 peacock bass, largest of which weighed 16lbs. Water levels are a still bit on the high side but very fishable not dropping though due to the heavy rainfall last week. Good weather in the coming days (see forecast below). Joao Pepino and wood choppers are the chosen lures this week.

Today´s Average Water Levels:

in Dry-Zone N. East

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

Upper Jufaris, Itapará and Kabori fisheries in Dry-Zone N.East

Guess work

The Kabori fishery in Dry-Zone N. East although a bit high is dropping and presents good fishing conditions. Rain forecast showing some heavy rain in the coming days (pls. see below forecast for Caracarai)

The Omero lakes and Maú river in Dry-Zone N.East continue to present excellent fishing conditions, water levels dropping should be below ideal in the coming weeks. Weather forecast showing some rain as from tomorrow, clearing towards the weekend (pls. see below forecast for Barcelos)

The Upper Jufaris presents a bit high water levels, but dropping and very fishable. The Lower Jufaris is a bit behind on the cycle but dropping, last week’s rain episodes somehow stalled the process but forecast shows tendency will be resumed sooner than later. Forecasts for Caracarai, and Barcelos (see below),

The Itapará river presents water levels a bit on the high side but fishable, rain forecast shouldn´t revert the dropping tendency in the coming weeks.

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 cuadrangle within Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Caracaraí and Rorainopolis in the area of influence of our Upper Jufaris, Omero lakes, Kabori and Itapará fisheries forecasts above showing no significant rain episodes in the coming days.

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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 anomaly forecast for the coming fortnight

Water level measurements at the Caracarai station (see below) are almost within the historical parameters – spike was due to last week´s rainfall. The Omero lakes fishery is down river from this station at the Branco basin, water levels are excellent at this time. Please see red circle in stations map above. The Itapará also drains into de Branco river

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) continue to be within the historical parameters. The Jufaris and Kabori fishery drains directly at the Negro river in the area of influence of this station. Please see red circle in stations map above.