Otorongo Expeditions: US-owned fishing specialists, who use their basic lodge, located downstream from Iquitos on the Amazon River, as a base to fish Lake Ayzana, which is a sport fishing reserve. However, several offer trips geared to the more serious sports angler: and always in a stunningly beautiful location.Īll the lodges in the Amazon province of Loreto offer piranha fishing - with rudimentary equipment - as part of their standard itineraries. So, the adventurous angler will struggle to find harder-fighting or more exciting gamefish anywhere else. Has delicious meat.Īs well as the above, there are often twenty or so different species that will take a fly or lure, in any given area. Tambaqui ( Colossoma macropomum): can weigh as much as 23 kg (50 lbs) and despite being a herbivore, puts up a real struggle when hooked. They migrate upstream from the Amazon River estuary area (in Brazil) to rivers in the foothills of the Andes Mountains - a journey of several thousand kilometres - in order to spawn. Remove hook with caution!ĭorado Catfish ( Brachyplatystoma flavicans): grows up to 1.2m (4 ft) and weighs up to 32 kg (70 lbs). Powerful jumpers when hooked, making them difficult to land. Payara ( Hydrolycus scomberoides): also known as giant wolf fish, saber tooth barracuda, vampire fish, vampire tetra, or saber tusk barracuda in reference to two long fangs - that can be up to 15 cm (6 inches) long - protruding from its lower jaw.
Has a beautiful yellowish-green colouring, with three black stripes on the side, and often red-orange pectoral fins, reminiscent of a peacock's plumage.
Tucunare ( Cichla monoculus): the king of all freshwater game fish, the butterfly peacock bass.
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