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n November 2013 I thoroughly
enjoyed my six days of fishing on
the Essequibo River in Guyana –
South America. I’d gone out there
with a long list of Amazon species that
I wanted to catch and come away with
a lot of boxes still un-ticked due to
some really rotten luck. One of the
main species that lure anglers go to
South America to catch is the peacock
bass. I’d caught a few but all under
3lb which went for catfish bait and I
really wanted to get some good ones
to see what makes peacocks such a
cult fish. In spite of the bad luck I’d
still had a fantastic time in a beautiful
wild location and did not need much
persuading to book a return trip – this
time for nine days- with Steve
Townson at http://www.amazon-angler.com.
The plan was to take a light plane
from Guyana’s capital Georgetown
to Annai and boat down the
Rupununi River to Apoteri -
joining the main Essequibo
River and heading up to the
fishing camp just below King
William Falls. This is about as
far up the Essequibo as it’s
possible to go without heavy
labour hauling boats and camp
up waterfalls and recent reports
of the fishing up there indicated
that we would have a very good
chance of 100lb+ specimens of
redtail, lau-lau (piraiba) and Jau
catfish – the Amazon big three.
Guests fishing with Steve
and local operator Navin
would be me, Andrei from
Belarus, Australian
Damien and Ken
from America.
A few days
before we were
due to arrive in
late November
Steve informed£
Thrill seeker, Dave ‘Daints’ White
enjoys a real Amazon adventure
in pursuit of peacocks
n November 2013 I thoroughly
enjoyed my six days of fishing on
the Essequibo River in Guyana –
South America. I’d gone out there
with a long list of Amazon species that
I wanted to catch and come away with
a lot ofboxes still un-tickeddue to
some really rotten luck. One of the
main species that lure anglers go to
South America to catch is the peacock
bass. I’d caught a few but all under
3lb which went for catfish bait and I
really wanted to get some good ones
to see what makes peacocks such a
cult fish. In spite of the bad luck I’d
still had a fantastic time in a beautiful
wildlocationanddid not needmuch
persuading to book a return trip – this
time for nine days- with Steve
Townson at http://www.amazon-angler.com.
The plan was to take a light plane
from Guyana’s capital Georgetown
to Annai and boat down the
Rupununi River to Apoteri -
joining the main Essequibo
River and heading up to the
fishing camp just below King
William Falls. This is about as
far up the Essequibo as it’s
possible to go without heavy
labour hauling boats and camp
up waterfalls and recent reports
of the fishing up there indicated
that we would have a very good
chance of 100lb+ specimens of
redtail, lau-lau(piraiba) and Jau
catfish – the Amazon big three.
Guests fishing with Steve
and local operator Navin
would be me, Andrei from
Belarus, Australian
Damien and Ken
from America.
A few days
beforewe were
due to arrive in
lateNovember
Steve informed££