Trip Highlights
14-year-old Maxx Greta just returned from his second awesome peacock bass trip with his dad, Chris.
The Amazon peacock bass is pound for pound the hardest hitting and fighting freshwater game fish on earth! Their topwater lure-smashing strikes have become legendary in the angling community and thousands of fishermen travel each year to challenge this exciting gamefish.
Rod & Gun Resources has sent many thousands of anglers to Brazil over the last decade—it’s one of our real specialties and greatest areas of expertise. We know the virgin rivers and lagoons where large populations of giant peacock bass live unmolested and on our trips, many (or all) of the peacock bass you cast to have never seen an artificial lure or fly.
 Lunker Brazil peacock bass. |
“What a great trip. Our group of eight caught lots of fish, including 175 peacock bass of 12 pounds or more and 22 lunkers of 20 pounds or more. I personally caught 17, 20 and 15 pounders on three consecutive casts!” |
Rod & Gun Resources’ fishermen commonly catch 20 to 30 peacock bass each day, from 3 to 6-pound “butterflies“ to the 12 to 25-pound “barred” or “paca” super-lunkers and there is always the chance for a real monster. The current IGFA all-tackle world peacock bass record came from this region in 1994, and we have come very close to breaking the record many times.
We are happy to announce that River Plate Anglers has obtained through legal authority exclusive permits to sport fish waters of the Madeira River system within the Tenharin Indian Reservation.
This means that these waters will be sport fished for the very first time in history. Our anglers on these trips can truly cast to entire populations of big peacock bass that have never seen a lure or fly!
We have two concepts that are the keys to our extraordinary fishing:
- Our outfitter whisks fishermen via state-of-the-art Cessna Caravan aircraft directly from the Manaus, Brazil airport to pristine fishing locations far (often hundreds of miles) from the overfished melee of competing lodges and houseboats — and lands right at their camp or yacht accommodations.
- The “Cabin Barge” concept is a breakthrough in placing comfortable, air-conditioned accommodations in previously inaccessible locations. Each set of barges draws only about four inches of water, which enables us to travel virtually anywhere, avoiding natural barriers such as waterfalls and too-shallow river mouths.
Our combination of the fly-in and true mobility eliminates competition from other people, whether they are sportsmen or native fishermen. Consequently, this is your best chance for peacock bass fishing success. Please ask us to give you references from our returning anglers, and compare our numbers with those of other operations.
“Our January group came back extremely impressed with your program. Benny, my guide on the Jufari, is head and shoulders above any guide or fisherman I have ever met. He could do anything — get out impossible backlashes, mend reels, fix and tune Woodchoppers, and his eyes were like radar... The meals were exquisitely prepared and I should have married Ruth, our cook, and brought her back to the States with me.” Barry Reynolds, Denver, CO
Call us at 1-800-211-4753 today for details and be one of
the lucky sportsmen
who experiences peacock bass fishing... Brazilian style!
- COST:
- $4295 per week for the Barge Camps and the Blackwater Explorer. The trips are currently Friday - Saturday, but the itinerary is subject to change. Custom itineraries are available upon request. Air travel from Miami to Manaus, Brazil is usually around $900 round-trip. Ground transfers are included.
- PRIME TIME:
- August through March
- TRAVEL LOGISTICS (Subject to Change)
- Anglers should do their own air tickets from their home city to Manaus, Brazil. Currently the applicable U.S. to Manaus flights are on Delta Airlines from Atlanta or TAM Brazilian Airlines from Miami. Fishing dates, once in Brazil, are Friday to Friday, including the travel to and from the camps.
- To start your trip, plan to arrive in Manaus late Thursday night/early Friday morning. Upon arrival, guests are met and transferred to the nearby Tropical Hotel (double occupancy) for a rest prior to the air charter to camp. The air charters will begin departing Manaus around 7 a.m. Friday, so you must arrive in Manaus by 1:30 a.m. Friday
- All guests are returned to Manaus the following Friday — some will go directly to the airport — some will rest at the Tropical, depending on the flight times back to the U.S. Return flights to the U.S. can be scheduled for as early as midnight that night.
- Please remember that these schedules as listed above are always subject to change and you should not issue air tickets until you check with our office.
- DETAILS:
- A color brochure (PDF), video and references are available.
- You might also find our Peacock Bass Pre-Trip Planning and Packing Information helpful.
- Click here for frequently asked questions and their answers.
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