Michael Kinchen and guide on the Rio Negro, Amazon 02-28-2012 peacock bass fishing

General

Missing the Amazon

Byeditor January 29, 2015July 18, 2023

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! Hoping to make it back on a future trip for another crack at the world record peacock bass that swim the massive Rio Negro (Black River)!

This is a picture of my fishing partner during the last trip, Michael Kinchen, and one of our daily local guides – changes every day to a different guide so you get a fresh look at the river and hot fishing spots every day!

Video

Terri catches a Peacock Bass Video

Byeditor November 16, 2015July 18, 2023

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

Dan Kimmel with his biggest peacock bass of the 2010 trip, an 18-pound Speckled Peacock caught along a river sandbar break on a big woodchopper topwater.

Peacock Bass Fishing

Big Peacock Bass from 2010

Byeditor November 22, 2015July 18, 2023

The Rio Negro was pretty low with lots of visible giant sandbars during out January 2010 trip to the mighty Brazilian Amazon Jungle river! We were on the hunt for the giant Speckled Peacock Bass that call the Negro home!

Hard to pass up the topwater woodchopper bite for big Amazon peacock bass like this 16 1/2 pounder caught fishing with guide Aligator, but they don’t always crash the topwaters.

Peacock Bass Fishing

Peacock Bass on The Amazon Rig!

Byeditor October 24, 2015July 18, 2023

I was very fortunate to start a new adventure with Ron Speed Jr’s Adventures peacock bass fishing the mighty Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon jungle!

Fishing

Fishing in the Jungle

Byeditor November 15, 2015July 18, 2023

Sometimes fishing the Amazon is open water and sometimes you have to go right into the jungle after the fish! During our 2012 trip, end of February and early March, unseasonable rains upriver had the Rio Negro running high and up into the jungle!

Michael Kinchen with a nice white piranha caught on a large jerkbait from the Rio Negro in Brazil

Fishing

Piranha and Other Fish

Byeditor November 13, 2015July 18, 2023

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.

Video

Giant River Otters of the Rio Negro

Byeditor November 16, 2015July 18, 2023

A short video of a family of Giant River Otters swimming, playing and calling along a channel of the Rio Negro, Amazon, Brazil.