Giant River Otters of the Rio Negro
A short video of a family of Giant River Otters swimming, playing and calling along a channel of the Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil. River Otters are a top predator of the Amazon basic with adults up to 6 feet tall!
This is Dan Kimmel reporting in. I haven’t been back to the mighty Amazon River, specifically the Rio Negro, since February 2012 and I sure do miss the jungle and those amazing peacock bass!
Amazon angler Dave Gizzi gets blasted by a beautiful Butterfly Peacock Bass while ‘chopping some wood’ – ripping a big woodchopper-type topwater lure!
Peacock Bass aren’t the only fish you’ll catch from the Amazon River and tributaries. Piranha and other toothy fish are common along river channels.
You know it’s a successful trophy peacock bass fishing trip when you have to post 3 articles covering some of the biggest peacock bass caught during the trip!
Tony P videos Terri catching a small peacock bass on a big topwater doing the woodchopper rip early in the morning. Note the guide calls the fish out before it even hits the plug somehow spotting it in the dark brown-black waters of the Rio Negro
Jim starts out your ordinary Amazon peacock bass angler but becomes Gator Jim when he snags a full-grown Spectacled Caiman that isn’t the baby he thought might make cute pictures but a 7 to 8 foot adult monster!