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All smaller crankbaits & rattle traps the stock hooks were useless.Black Pirhana would just destroy those hooks with one hit.We had to up grade to x-hvy 1/0 treble hooks.Floating Rapala's were getting bit in half, rattle traps would have so many chew marks they filled with water.Most crankbaits would have the pull eye twisted so many time that it was impossible to tune them.Wire leaders were getting bit off on 60 lb and under! Good thing I brought 1500 yd spool of 80 lb Power Pro, many reels got stripped of all line.The color white was the best choice all trip.

Crossing low water flats of shallow water with all brown sand bottom, looking down at Stingray's that over 200 lbs! Casting toward Arawana that are near the surface and when you connect they jump 6 to 8 times clean out of the water like tarpon.You can catch so many fish here that you will end up in the hammock for a snooze after lunch each day and return for more in the afternoon!

Sitting at camp along the river watching 8 Giant River Otters hunt for fish dinner! Look on as they fight each other over every fish they catch.See the otters catch a Big Pyara of World Record Size while your clients are all out on ponds and other parts of the river trying to find one.Taking time from boiling 15 gallons of drinking water each day to cast a few small crankbaits and have a school of Peacock Bass swim through at just the right time and catch 7 out of 10 casts!

At night the animal noises are something that has your attention between howler monkeys that sound like a pride of hunger lions to owls answering each other.But the most amazing thing is the sky and all the millions of stars that you never see here, lots of satellites streaking across the sky, also shooting stars! Complete with the freshest air you could ever inhale!

Wow you never tasted fish cooked any better then Amerindian fire roasted Peacock Bass! They start out by using hard wood sticks to build a grill, then they select dry purple heart wood to build a coal base.Once hot red coals the fish cut opened to give you to half's with cut lines in the sides, brushed with cooking oil and laid on the wood grill.Then they take a special bark that smokes in a flavor that goes on the coals.This all cooks slowly over a couple hours as the flavor goes into the cooking fish that is turned many times.Just so good that it just melts in your mouth with unbelievable flavor! Every 3rd Day!

The Amerindian boat Captian's and bow men we hire are some of the hardest working people I have ever seen! Try cutting a path with a chain saw for 1/2 a mile, then cut round logs down over the whole trail, followed by pushing a 21 ft heavy aluminum boat across this to that far away pond and never complain one bit! The best sign of toughness was when Carlson got a 2/0 treble hook stuck in his index finger, he pushed it through the thickness of his finger, cut off the barb and pulled it back.I taped it up after cleaning it and putting triple antibiotic cream on,2 hours later he tossed away the bandage and was up at the front of the boat with oar in the bad hand and never missed a minute of the day!

We will have to gear up much bigger and stronger in reels and line for Big Catfish! We 1st started out with a 7 ft extra heavy ocean stand up rod with an ABU 7000 Reel spooled up with 80 lb Power Pro.That reel the line got zipped completely off the spool by Redtail Catfish that ran and never stopped.So we upgraded to a Penn 309m reel with 150 lb Power Pro line and we're able to stop all the Cats 100 lbs and under, but even got spooled twice with the bigger reel and 150 lb Power Pro! So next year we will take along Penn Senator Reel and 250 lb Power Braid! We would also have Cats run right to logs and wrap 25 ft down, no problem our Amerindian boat captian Carlson loves water, he would dive in and follow the line down, untangle and bring the Cats up in his bare hands.We got a lot of lures back this way as well, he was not even worried about the thousands of Black Pirhana in the same hole!

Stephen, I can F Disc and add the Windows 98 for free! Once I recover the pictures on flash disc I will purchase a new laptop if it gets infected again!The computer is to old to put Windows 8 on it, not enough memory or big enough hard drive and getting the new Windows would cost to much!

It's going to cost more then purchasing a new cheap laptop just to recover photo's & important files!

Pap, When I came home I found my laptop down with a virus and presently have it at OfficeMax getting pictures & files recovered be for f disc and reload of Windows 98.So it will be another week or so before I can put the video up as a YouTube!

Pyara & Arawana!

I'm headed to Three Rivers Muskies Inc Chapter Banquet tonight near Pittsburgh. I will show a small video of Mark Nickles 303 lb Arapiama captured from hook up to release on GoPro!

Ok, I waited as long as I could to get an answer, not hearing anything I went ahead and purchased a 20 hp outboard from eBay!

If sold just say so!

Is 20 hp Evinrude short shaft rope start still available?

I did have a poop my pants moment, while my back was turned to the river and I was standing on a solid rock area unhooking a Bacuda of about 25", a Black Caiman of around 10 ft long launched itself 6 ft through the air and landed right behind me grabbing the Bacuda right out of my hands! Talk about scaring the poop out of you! From that point on never turned my back to any water that was deep enough you could not see bottom.The only injuries on the trip were one clients thumb having skin burn't off from trying to thumb the reel spool on a Redtail Catfish that ran all the line off a Penn 309 reel!

The Arapiama picks the ponds to raise their young because as the water is dropping the Pirhana leave and move to the river, so most ponds are void of pirhana. But stingrays can be a problem as well as black caiman.

This Bush Cow (Tapier) did not seemed to be to alarmed we were near by!

Are any of the outboard motors 15" short shaft?

Couple of many catfish!

Was a 14 wt Sage Fly Rod, with 100 lb Tippet!I'm freezing my but off now after being use to 90 degree weather for 45 days!

Pap, We may have an article about this adventure & world record catch in the In - Fishermen Magazine! We did get Go Pro footage of a 303 lb Arapiama from the hook up to the release with the fish clearing the water 4 times! I will make a YouTube Video and put it up here later this month.I returned to Buffalo and the 4 ft of snow in my driveway on Thursday night, ready to go back to Guyana!

Client Rich Hart caught a 420 lb Arapiama on a Fly Rod on February 4th to be in the running for the IGFA All Tackle World Record & The Largest Freshwater Fish Caught on a Fly Rod!Guyana was good this February, clients caught 6 Arapiama,2nd picture is 290 lber!

I'm leaving this morning for Guyana to guide for 6 weeks, I will post pictures when I return in early March.