More big peacock bass fishing pictures from our amazing January 2010 trophy fishing trip to the Rio Negro, Brazil deep in the Amazon Jungle! Part 1 had plenty of pictures of big and trophy peacock bass but here are even more of the big ones that didn’t get away!
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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!
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Amazon angler Dave Gizzi gets blasted by a beautiful Butterfly Peacock Bass while ‘chopping some wood’ – ripping a big woodchopper-type topwater lure!
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My first day ever Peacock Bass fishing in Brazil I fished with Nick Owings. It was January 18, 2010 and we didn’t know what to expect by expert guide Aligator guided us to a number of nice peacock bass!
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‘Gator’ 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! A 30 minute battle ensues ending in pandemonium!
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 even though he is sitting down in the boat!
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!
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Peacock Bass aren’t the only fish you’ll catch from the Amazon River and tributaries such as the Rio Negro. Piranha and other toothy fish are common along the endless river channels.
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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!
