turtle_slayer;1721363; said:
How much was the little guy?
5 bucks for all the fish , three acara's two apisto's and a lucius.
Peanut power, i would wish i could do that... if only i was older here is a fishing trip i took a couple of weeks ago...
Hi all. Recently i got back from a 4 day adventure to a village called itapeacu (ita-pay-uh-sew). I will tell a fairly detailed story with the hope that you like pics,
as i have a ton of them. Any help on identifying any of the fish will help a lot as the only scientific name I am sure about is the ducks beak (local name for a Sorubim lima) we were going to leave one day earlier but we found a quicker way to get there so we didnt go as early.
Day 1 Friday
I woke up early at about 5.20 to get ready for the bus which left at 6.00. the bus was freezing but was enjoyable as we passed trees full of Anhingas (a type of bird) drying their wings and small kingfishers darting about were their was water. We arrived at the port at 1.30 in itacuatiara, a city by the amazon river. Their we took a two hour boat to itapeacu. After visiting some peoples houses i started fishing and for the two hours i fished i caught nothing but a mandi (local name for a small catfish) and a white ten inch Aracu (local name for a headstander) with a small hook, aroll of fishing line, a bobber, a weight, and a moist peice of bread. I had a bag full of fishing equipment, pliers, plastic fish bags, hooks of all sizes, more bobbers, and more lead weights, unfortunately i was careless and forgot about it and someone stole it, so all i was left with was the stuff in my hands.
That night we slept in our hammocks strung up from one wall to another.
Day 2 Saturday
We had bread and butter that day I used some leftover bred for some isca (Portuguese name for bait). On the first cast my bobber shot down and after fighting the fish (I did not use a rod) I pulled up a small lima shovelnose catfish
after photographing it I let it go (as I did almost all the fish I caught) but soon after my bobber shot down and after fighting it (he had a lot of force for his size) I caught another larger one, perhaps ten inches. My next catch was another mandi, probably the same kind as the first. I was happily surprised when once again I caught a lima shovelnose, but this was larger, close to 15 inches, COOL! Next I caught a beautiful mandi of a different speices, with iridescent skin. after a lot of bites i finnaly hooked another neat fish, a sardinhao its shape is abnormal and the tail has a black spike in the center it is a species of characoid I think. In most places it is fairly common and I was surprised I didnt catch very many. The next fish came as a big surprise when I felt the line tug and my bobber disappearing into the black water. Quickly I pulled up the line and there it was, a medium sized white catfish with black polka dots (that some called a piraosca) after throwing it back In the water I resumed with my fishing. Next up was a four inch baby mandi, it was the third of that speices that I had caught. If I remember rightly about this time I caught two more aracus, they are so hard to catch as their mouths are so small even though my hook was about size twelve! The next fish was quite a treat, as it fought really hard but finaly I pulled it up, a piraosca close to two feet long! this was the biggest fish I caught on the entire trip! After that The fish werent interested in eating anymore for some reason.
Day 3 Sunday
I had high hopes for this day but as the day wore one I barely got any bites but when I finally did get a bite I successfully hooked a piraosca but as I pulled it out of the water little brown shapes that were clinging to the hooked piraosca jumped off fortunately two landed out of the water after pulling up the piraosca I examined the weird little brown fishes that had luckily jumped on the land at first glance they looked like baby piraoscas but when I picked one up something sharp almost punctured my skin. On closer observation I discovered that when picked up it pushed out some small, very sharp, spines from somewhere near its gills, sweat! The body was light brown with darker spots. Some said it was a candiru some said it wasnt, whats your opinion? After that I caught the last fish, a sardinhao. After that I switched over to meat, a lot more bites but I didnt catch anymore fish for some reason. We were planning to leave that night on a boat at one oclock in the morning but the boat didnt stop and passed us by we waited another two hours but no other boat came so we had to wait till the next day till four oclock in the afternoon .
Day 4 Monday
I woke up late that morning! But I was ready to fish. Unfortunately I didnt have any bait as we were supposed to have left already. So I walked up to a meat store. When I arrived there was a large cow skin spread across the front porch but it was turned over inside-out were a lady and a boy were cutting off the fat the boy was on hands and knees on top of the bloody cowskin
Gross! What was worse was a pot cooking all the cows innards, intestines and all, in a smelly concoction. I paid them one real (brazilian currency) and asked if I could have some meat for bait she sliced two huge slabs of meat (
) and put it in a bag I hurried away, sick to my stomach But after about an hour of fishing I didnt get a single bite so I switched fishing spots. The new fishing spot was very hard to stand up and cast as there was no foot hold in the slippery clay bank. But after barely a minute my bobber shot down so fast that I heard the plop it made. However I couldnt hook the fish with my tiny hook (All larger hooks were stolen in the first night with the rest of my equipment) after a while I left to wait for the boat I waited until almost seven when we signaled a boat over, it wasnt even the one we were planning on as the other one didnt come!well we made it home, and I was kind of disappointed as I didnt catch a single cichlid. A couple of locals said that cichlids prefer the blackwater lakes instead of the amazon, is this true? I am going back in june and will probably not be able to fish quite as much but one of my friends said that he would tak me to his mothers house were they have lots of tucunare (peacock bass) acara acu (uh-car-uh us-oo) local name for oscar, acaras and other awesome fish I will be busy getting tanks for those fish! Any information on any of the fish would be greatly appreciated.
Fish list
Three Aracu (Ah duh-coo, a species of white headstander)
Four Mandi (Mon-jee, local name for most small species of catfish in the range of 3-7 inches)
Four Bico de pato (means ducks beak, a local name for lima shovelnose catfish)
Two Sardinhao (means large sardine but only maxes out at about 7 inches.)
Three Piraosca ?, some locals say it was another speices of fish.(Pee-duh-aw-scu, A specific speices of large catfish.)
Two unidentified fish possibly relative to the deadly candiru?
We thankfully have an amazing camera its a FE200 for example none of the pictures in this topic have been cropped in any way.
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