‘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!
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.
It’s well known that the Rio Negro in Brazil produces the biggest Speckled Peacock Bass having produced the last two world records. We’ve traveled there twice with Ron Speed Jr’s Adventures to tackle these bruisers!
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!
Our favorite peacock bass fishing destination is the mighty Rio Negro in Brazil! The Rio Negro (Black River) is the major N-S tributary that merges with the Rio Solimoes in Manaus to become the even mightier Amazon River
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