Fishing in the Amazon?

We are doing a family trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon in October, and I will have a chance to do some fishing. Any recommendations on what to bring?

I was down there many years ago but was clueless and hadn’t planned for fishing, so the piranhas kept chewing me off. I finally solved that by making a bite leader out of a chain of safety pins.

Wire trace!  A lot of the local fishing is just chunks of bait, at least where I was in the Peruvian Amazon.  Lures that you’d use for bass work well for peacocks.

-Allen

Fucking Sansano.

Where have you NOT fished?

Bouch-wa-Zie

Fucking Sansano.

Where have you NOT fished?

Bouch-wa-Zie

I’ve never fished the Atlantic!

-Allen

Wire trace!  A lot of the local fishing is just chunks of bait, at least where I was in the Peruvian Amazon.  Lures that you’d use for bass work well for peacocks.

-Allen

Thanks. I will definitely be bringing lots of wire leaders.

My mind is wandering down memory lane.  The locals liked red/white lures (noisy propeller baits, stick baits, spinner baits), probably because they showed up better and made a ruckus in the very stained waters.

A piece of chicken fat/skin lasted for hours for dozens of piranha.  And chunks of fish for many different kinds of catfish.

-Allen

Over 20 years ago, my wife and I did a 5 day jungle tour out of the Oriente in Ecuador.  I just remember we ate alot of fish, mainly catfish and pirahna.  Catching fish was easy and we just used handlines with a small chunk of fish as bait.  The chef/guide's helper brought along a big bunch of plantains that he grilled,boiled, fried and that was our main starch.  We went in when it was dry (season) with various waterways very low and three days later after non stop rain, our canoe could barely make anyway against the current as it was raging.  One memory that sticks out is we saw a jaguar in the wild.  It was swimming across a particularly wild tributary so we motored over to check it out.  The guide thought it was a capibara but as we get up to it just as it made the shore, we were all amazed that it was a jaguar.  In 10+ years of guiding, the guide said that was only his second time and first time so close and clear.  It was slow in walking off maybe because it was tired from the long swim.  Also saw pink dolphins which was cool.  The fishing should be easy. 

A piece of chicken fat/skin lasted for hours for dozens of piranha.  And chunks of fish for many different kinds of catfish.

This is what i did in Belize in Feb.  I brought some big jig heads so i cd grab em by the jig head n shake the cats loose wo need to lip or plier the fish.  Same approach when fishing for leopards in the bay

Meat Eater has several very cool episodes of fishing in the Amazon.  Highly recommmend u view

Fucking Sansano.

Where have you NOT fished?

Bouch-wa-Zie

I’ve never fished the Atlantic!

-Allen

OK.  Fla or North Carolina.  We can go see Bald-Headed Bobby on the Crystal Coast.  Redfish, Tarpon, Jacks.

Better yet, ICELAND!!   Greenland giant halibut, then inland salmon & trout.  plus, it's ICELAND!! Waterfalls, glaciers, steam vents, hot pots.  whaleburgers....

Bushy

Wwowza 

I had a short stay in a lodge in Peru and only got Piranha and a wolf fish.  When some new arrivals sat down across from me in the mess hall, I dead-panned “Now you’ve seen a man eating piranha.”

We fished one day out of Iquitos, Peru.   They furnished the gear.  Straight branch and line to a wire and hook.   Worked fine for piranhas.   I would take long sleeve shirts, everything in the Amazon has teeth and bites.   Good bug repellent.  We bought it in Peru.   Jigs as someone said that can be released without pliers.

i fished an off-shoot of the Amazon River.  from the Peru side.  the Tambopata river.  we paid a guy $25 each to take us out.  big giant wooden river boat that we beached and banked fished.

i brought an UL rod, and the guy looked at it and waved it off.  the fish are big in Peru.  he handed me the most badly beaten rig i have ever seen.  but yea..i got this.

my wife is planning a woman's trip to Paris.  all of us men looked at each other and said, "yea..the Amazon!"

Black Pacu.  hardest fight of my life.