Good afternoon all,
I returned from an amazing trip to Pirarucu in the Amazon a few days ago.. Another Epic Fly fishing trip with Untamed Angling and arranged by The Fly Shop. I cannot say enough great things about both of these operations as the days I experienced were undoubtedly record setting for the quantity of fish landed, size of the fish and the amount of action on most every session. We were limited by agreement to fishing 4 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon yet, somehow, it was perfect... Even though we got rained out the 3rd afternoon. Pirarucu is an incredible wildlife sanctuary in the Amazon Basin... Though we cannot fish at or near this Eco Lodge the surroundings are something right out of Jurassic Park.. Big fish rising 24/7, Arrowana and other tropical fish abound as if the lodge were in a giant aquarium.. The Black Caiman are everywhere, including right next to the lodge, in the waterways and all along the shores (Thousands of them) making for being in the water an always interesting experience... Being aware of one's surroundings.... Well, lets just say we are not in Kansas anymore Toto...
As far as gear goes, big streamers, Rio Intermediate Jungle and Outbound short clear tip lines, Sage X 10 Wt rods for the Arapaima (Amazing performers) and of Course those amazing Nautilus NVG reels all of which performed flawlessly with zero failures even though my drags were tight... very tight...I know a 10 wt sounds light for the application but they were perfect... for great conditions we experienced. 6 Wt or 7 wt Sage X for Arrowana with Rio floating lines and I was set.. If the water levels were higher, I would have needed to go to a full sink line which would have required possibly using 11 or 12 wts.. Which I brought but did not use. Add in a bunch of amazing custom Flys from my Friend Eric Blackshear from Ventura California, Hernan Tula from Argentina and Guilherme (one of the amazing guides at Pirarucu) and life was good.
I will give way from my normal long winded write ups and just put up the pictures.. Starting with the biggest first... Yes, a true river monster which yielded a Holy Shidddd....T moment. I still cannot believe the size and power of this particular fish... I cannot figure out how to up load more than 5 pictures to the post so I will add pictures to the thread in several sections...Too many fish to put up all the pics nor did I take pictures of every fish... What a problem to have... LOL
Have a great season.
Jamie
I returned from an amazing trip to Pirarucu in the Amazon a few days ago.. Another Epic Fly fishing trip with Untamed Angling and arranged by The Fly Shop. I cannot say enough great things about both of these operations as the days I experienced were undoubtedly record setting for the quantity of fish landed, size of the fish and the amount of action on most every session. We were limited by agreement to fishing 4 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon yet, somehow, it was perfect... Even though we got rained out the 3rd afternoon. Pirarucu is an incredible wildlife sanctuary in the Amazon Basin... Though we cannot fish at or near this Eco Lodge the surroundings are something right out of Jurassic Park.. Big fish rising 24/7, Arrowana and other tropical fish abound as if the lodge were in a giant aquarium.. The Black Caiman are everywhere, including right next to the lodge, in the waterways and all along the shores (Thousands of them) making for being in the water an always interesting experience... Being aware of one's surroundings.... Well, lets just say we are not in Kansas anymore Toto...
As far as gear goes, big streamers, Rio Intermediate Jungle and Outbound short clear tip lines, Sage X 10 Wt rods for the Arapaima (Amazing performers) and of Course those amazing Nautilus NVG reels all of which performed flawlessly with zero failures even though my drags were tight... very tight...I know a 10 wt sounds light for the application but they were perfect... for great conditions we experienced. 6 Wt or 7 wt Sage X for Arrowana with Rio floating lines and I was set.. If the water levels were higher, I would have needed to go to a full sink line which would have required possibly using 11 or 12 wts.. Which I brought but did not use. Add in a bunch of amazing custom Flys from my Friend Eric Blackshear from Ventura California, Hernan Tula from Argentina and Guilherme (one of the amazing guides at Pirarucu) and life was good.
I will give way from my normal long winded write ups and just put up the pictures.. Starting with the biggest first... Yes, a true river monster which yielded a Holy Shidddd....T moment. I still cannot believe the size and power of this particular fish... I cannot figure out how to up load more than 5 pictures to the post so I will add pictures to the thread in several sections...Too many fish to put up all the pics nor did I take pictures of every fish... What a problem to have... LOL
Have a great season.
Jamie
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