World record peacock bass weight
Rio Marié - The largest Giant Peacock Bass ever caught on fly!
(Text Florian Kaiser; Pics Florian Kaiser and Breno Ballesteros Rezende) Florian Kaiser and Breno Ballesteros spend a unique week jungle angling Rio Mari? in the Amazon Basin of Brazil with Untamed Angling during the 2016/ 2017 season. We?will be featuring Florian?s travelogue of his angling ventures in a seven-part travel journal. This is part five. Our fourth day of our great adventure was guided by Agustin. Agustin spend the first part of the season at Kendjam, guiding there the first regular season with the new lodge (see my Kendjam Blog about Breno and my visit during exploration Season 2015 to this highly regarded Untamed destination). This morning in the bot, more ironically joking than serious I said: ?I am going to catch a 28lb fish today!? Fishing was again cast by cast to the shore and towards structure. Some fish to the boat. But not so many. We fished a lake with some freshwater Dolphin action. This made me put on my 70-200 2,8 Canon lens and taking some hundred shots of breathing Dolphins. To take a proper shot of them is kind of a challenge, as they are very quick. So only a low percentag
FWC certifies new state record butterfly peacock bass
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) fisheries biologists certified a new state record butterfly peacock bass weighing 9.11 pounds and measuring 23 5/16 inches long, caught by angler Felipe Prieto from Hialeah. Prieto was fishing after work and caught the fish on live bait in a Broward County lake. This new catch supersedes the previous state record of 9.08 pounds that has stood for almost three decades since 1993.
Peacock bass are unique among freshwater fish as the only nonnative species to be legally established in Florida. The FWC stocked peacock bass in coastal southeast Florida canals in 1984 to help reduce the number of undesirable exotic fishes, especially spotted tilapia. A side benefit of the stocking has been a new fishery for Florida. Limited low temperature tolerance normally restricts butterfly peacocks to Broward and Miami-Dade counties but recent mild winters have allowed anglers as far north as Palm Beach County to enjoy catching this species. Native to South America, butterfly peacock bass have flourished in southeast Florida and FWC biologists have documented even larger fish.
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Morgan angler catches world-record bass in Amazon
Adam Van Tassell knew the Fire Peacock Bass he caught while fishing in the Amazon last November was a big one—he just didn’t know how big it really was until several weeks later. Van Tassell, who owns and operates Crazy Good Fishing in Morgan, hooked the bass while fishing with his 13-year-old son Brock on the Rio Cururu, one of the thousands of tributaries in the Amazon of Brazil.
“We have a small YouTube channel for fishing trips as part of my business,” he said. “We were fishing with a guide and a friend we were with thought we should shoot some video of our trip for the channel. So the whole catch is on tape.”
It was the third day of their fishing trip to Brazil, a country Van Tassell had visited before. Using a feathered jig to get a little lower in the waters, he felt the bass hit immediately, then fought it for about 8 to 9 minutes until he was able to land it.
The weight—12 pounds—far outdistancing the average size for a Fire Peacock Bass of about 4-½ pounds and passing the existing world record of 10.6 pounds.
“We knew it was a nice sized fish, but didn’t really know how special,” he said. “Our guide was ver
I'ts quite here. Almost eerily silent. Where are the howling monkeys, the squawking birds, the buzz of insects? Rrrrrrip. Rrrrrrrip. Rrrrrrrrrip. You cast the woodchopper and its retrieve shatters the silence, and then it happens. The water explodes, the 65 lb. braid screams off your reel, and it’s you versus the most aggressive, hardcharging freshwater gamefish in the world — the giant peacock bass.
Being a sport fishing outfitter in Central America for the past two decades, I’ve been fortunate to possess many of the world’s optimal fishing venues right here in my backyard. From the prolific sport fishing on both coasts of Costa Rica, to Panama’s famous hot spots like the Hannibal Bank and Coiba Island, to fly fishing the stunning saltwater flats in Belize — our home waters produce a lot of fish. Yet no matter how many fish we caught nor how far we traveled by land, air and sea, there was always one destination whose siren song kept calling to us. Once the pandemic subsided and travel reopened, we headed deep into the Brazilian Amazon to experience the best freshwater fishing in the world.
Anglers or not, most of us are aware that the Amazon River is one of the biggest an
largest record catch captured in a picture and published
| category: | rod & reel record |
|---|---|
| weight: | |
| length: | 78 cm ( 31 inches ) |
| locality: | Rio Paratucu, Brazil |
| year: | 2017 |
"rod & reel" world record caught in:
Brazil / capital: Brasília / 8,514,877 sq km
RECORD WEIGHT
| category | metric | english | waters | country | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rod & reel * | 7,71 kg | 17 lb 0 oz | Rio Paratucu | Brazil | 2017 |
RECORD LENGTH
| category | metric | english |
|---|---|---|
| rod & reel | 78 cm | 31 inches |
RECORD AGE
| category | age |
|---|---|
| no documented record |
explanation:
- rod & reel:
- sport fishing record with rod & reel
- other methods:
- records by other methods (net, hand line, spear, bow fishing etc.)
- rod & reel?:
- unclear if the fish was caught with rod & reel
- questionable:
- records based on anecdotal reports, verification not possible
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- approximately
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- exactly tie
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- verified by the IGFA