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Sunday

Big Fish Amazon

One of the largest, most productive and most exciting peacock bass fisheries in the Amazon has essentially lain fallow for three years in a row. Starting with the unusually severe drought of 2005 and then followed by two years of failed negotiations with the resident tribal leaders, the Igapo Acu region of the Rio Madeira basin hasn't seen a fishing lure in quite some time. It's natural for anglers to expect a fishery to respond to such a long period of disuse by a measurable rise in productivity when they finally return. Well, it certainly did respond, but it went way beyond simply measurable. It went way beyond any of our expectations. We found ourselves in the midst of a gigantic protected reserve full of wild and aggressive peacocks. You can almost guess what happened next.

Big Fish Amazon

We caught enormous numbers of fish! We caught them on everything, jigs and plugs and stick baits and especially propbaits. These peacocks were so aggressive that they struck woodchoppers and riprollers and Caribe pavon props with total abandon. The only reason anglers might catch more on other baits was that it simply takes longer to unhook fish from the big propeller lures. The amazing productivity and the sheer fun of catching hundreds of these wild predators each week made even experienced anglers giddy with excitement. The tremendous numbers of fish we landed during our stay in the region surprised even our most grizzled veteran peacock fishermen.

Big Fish Amazon

Our first group arrived to slightly high water levels that were dropping steadily, creating perfect fishing conditions. Eight anglers combined for a total of 2,349 peacocks during the week, with plenty of big trophies landed - and plenty more lost! 21 peacocks over 10 pounds were weighed in. Could it possibly get better? It did!

The 2008 fall dry season has been very normal and predictable in the southern Amazon Basin. Coupled with a remarkably bountiful fishery, conditions were ripe for a repeat performance by our second group. They outdid themselves. The presence of a core cadre of seasoned peacock fishermen, together with the great conditions yielded a total of 3,796 peacock bass for the week. One pair of anglers ended the week with a mindboggling total of 910 peacock bass for the week!

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Saturday

Big Fish Caught

Are you looking for a hobby on how to make fishing lures to catch a big fish? Many people love to go fishing as a matter of fact you can find all kinds of competition everywhere about people talking about who caught the biggest fish on their fishing trip. You definitely want to read this article in its entirety; we will talk about how to make fishing lures to catch a big fish.

Now I have personally never made a fishing lure; however my father did because he felt like he made better lures than were available for purchase. I tend to disagree and once you finish reading this story you will most likely agree with me. He would wake up every morning and go into the basement to work on his fishing lure secrets; which to this day he has never revealed to me how he would make his fishing lures. However one day he wanted to test our his new invention and we planned a fishing trip on the Columbia River.

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I was all excited after all a day out on the lake with my dad, boat and of course beer; who wouldn't want to go. Well he was using his inventions and I of course brought along my own fishing equipment that I bought. Well he did attract some decent size fish however he was never able to reel them in because his lures kept breaking. I on the other hand caught my biggest fish ever; it was a 15 pound bass. Now for all you expert fisherman and ladies out there, that may not seem very big. However it made my day and I was very impressed with it.

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Now people are going to tell you that you can learn how to make fishing lures to catch a big fish; and I will agree that some will be able to do it. However most of us who do not have the time to put in and the knowledge, it is best just to find the clearance sales that are available everywhere.

Big Fish Caught

Everyone who loves the great outdoors understands that they need the right equipment to make their trip comfortable. If you are looking for all the proper fishing tackle or whatever else you need, I highly recommend that you let the experts tackle that job. I am not saying that you should not learn how to make fishing lures as a hobby; however from my fathers experience you may want to test it before you actually go on a fishing trip.

Friday

Big Fish

Probably the biggest factor that determines the size of fish that a river can hold though is the food supply. Big fish have big appetites and need an ever increasing quantity of food to maintain and even increase their bulk. A given volume of water can only produce so much food.

Of course, not all bodies of water are able to produce the same supply for a given volume of water. Rocky mountain streams provide very little in comparison to lowland swamps. The fast flowing water and lack of anchorage means that few plants can take hold and, because of this, there is little food up through the food chain. Mountain streams are also colder places and that affects growth rates too.

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Many species adopt a more predatory diet as they become larger simply because the value of this food supply is more in line with their needs. The Taimen of Mongolia is the world's largest Salmonid species. When young they live mostly on insects but as they get bigger (and they regularly get to be more than one metre long) they turn to a predatory diet consisting of fish, rodents, amphibians and even birds.

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An alternative to the predatory diet is the scavenger's diet. Many big fish around the world get to be the size they are because their particular habitat has a plentiful supply of some form of waste. The Goonch of India have become infamous after reports that they have been feeding on the remains of cremations from riverside Ghats. Goonch are a kind of catfish and are bottom feeders so it is likely that they would find any decomposing flesh in their territory whatever the source. We needn't take the choice personally. This is hardly the same as a rogue man-eating tiger.

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