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AMAZON - HITTING IT JUST RIGHT
JULIE & DENNIS SMITH
Don-
Truly incredible trip! Numbers and quality and
tenacity: peacocks truly rival snook as my favorite
piscatorial targets. Throw in the visual aspects of
almost every strike and fish, and, wow, it just
can’t be any better. As you probably know by now, I
keep logs of my trips and count fish. Based on
previous experience where I’ve had my boat-mate use
clickers to validate my mental counts, I usually am
accurate to within +/- 3% (usually, I undercount).
So, the following numbers are pretty factual:
Sat
80 fish, 4 between 7-9#.
Sun
100 fish, 7 between 7-9#
Mon
59 fish, 3 between 7-9#
Tu
87 fish, 8 between 7-9# and 2 at 11.5 and 11.75
Wed
178 fish, 6 between 5-7# and 1 at 12.5
Th
43 fish, 2 between 9-10#, 13 between 7-9#, and 11
between
4-5# (everyone caught big fish this day including a
22 and a 18)
Fr
73 fish, 1 at 12.75 and 11 between 6-8# (same spots
fished 2 days in a row)
“Fish” in this count represent all varieties of
peacocks. I also landed 9 arowana and a mess of
other “things.”
Julie ended up with 151 peacocks, including a 13#
that didn’t get away (picture is the third photo
down on the right on Amazon page) and a 20+ pound
chartreuse and fluorescent orange VW bus that
smashed my favorite Sage TCR 9 weight into a
multi-piece travel stick. Don’t know why the rod
failed, but it did. I had just landed a 7# out of a
hole and told Julie that the fish that was swimming
next to mine could have swallowed mine. I was right,
and she hooked it on the next cast. Wish we had that
one to show you! So…771 peacocks between us, and, as
you know, one could easily catch a 1000 a week if
one were so inclined.
Great trip and great lodge! I may be ruined for
life!
Dennis
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