Home in the Jungle:

Are you the adventurous peacock bass angler who desires a remote, more intimate setting, away from the large lodges and crowded fishing boats found around Barcelos? And are you the fisherman who wants hundreds of miles of productive waters with very limited fishing pressure? Then look no further than The Junglelows floating camp.

The Junglelows is your home in the Jungle. The owners are one of only two operators with permits to fish this river. The fishing pressure is very light and the areas fished are rotated in order to preserve and improve the fishery. As a “catch and release” operation, the Junglelows guides take great pains to ensure that all of the hooked fish are returned in good health to fight another day.

A peacock bass trip to Brazil’s vast and untamed Amazon basin is truly a unique adventure. For many of you, this will be the closest opportunity you’ll ever have to experience the unique sights, sounds and smells of the world’s largest rain forest.

We want to further enhance this unique Amazon fishing adventure for you. For several years, we have offered floating hotels to our clients. Those facilities were basically stationary barges, moored to the shore, and acted as your base of operations for your week of peacock bass fishing. Depending on the conditions, anglers occasionally had to travel 1-2 hours from the moored facilities to locate good concentrations of fish. For the, upcoming, 2008-09 fishing season, we will take your Amazon experience to a new level. This year we will be utilizing new, extremely mobile jungle bungalow (“jungalow”) camps for our clients. These 12’ x 15’ elegantly adorned, stable, floating cabins will provide you a genuine jungle feel, as you will enjoy the tranquility of white sandy beaches and grassy shorelines that have seldom been visited.

The Junglelows floating camp will be located in the upper regions of the Rio Unini and the Rio Preta. It will be moved on a regular basis to keep you in fresh fishing water. Although usually located on the Unini River, the Junglelow Floating Camp can quickly be relocated to other rivers as the quality of fishing or seasonal conditions dictate. Your fishing will be in newly discovered lakes and lagoons which have seen no fishing pressure from either the commercial or the sport fishermen. You may be casting plugs to Peacock Bass that have never seen a plug before. Hang on!

The location is so isolated that access is limited to very shallow draft boats, such as the Junglelows. There are no nearby villages and only a scattered number of locals who fish from small dugout canoes.

As conditions dictate, the entire camp can be whisked to a new location, each day, as you probe the various rivers, with their hidden lakes and lagoons with your experienced native guide. The shallow draft tugboat, with the Junglelow cabins in tow (see diagram at left featuring the entire camp flotilla), can traverse shallow bars that would be inaccessible to most other operations. As you return from a productive day of fishing, our camp staff will have the camp set up and waiting for you on some unspoiled beach.

Each of these new mobile, all-aluminum, floating Junglelows feature reduced noise air-conditioning, private bathroom, fully carpeted interiors; comfortable bed with linen sheets; writing tables and built-in shelving for clothing and gear. We’ve even thought of evening reading lights.

Dining, cocktails and lounging take place in a spacious central structure with patio area. In the 12’ x 23’ dining/sitting lounge, you will dine on linen table cloths enjoying our chef’s four course meals. An excellent variety of both continental and exciting regional dishes make up the week’s menu. Fresh breads and pastries are baked daily and chilled wines, ice-cold beer, soft drinks, and Brazilian-style margaritas flow freely throughout your fishing trip

After years of experience fishing Brazil’s Amazon watershed, we have learned the best ways to find and to fish the most remote and lightly or un-fished areas. We understand the types of fishing boats that work best for reaching those remote areas that hold the big bass.

The fishing is from aluminum bass boats with swivel seats, large casting decks, outboard and trolling motors.

Although the bass boat we use have the features that make for a comfortable day on the water, yet they are still sufficiently light to navigate over the shallow sandbars, gravel flats and other shallow water obstacles to remote fishing locations (see image above showing this boat traversing a gravel bar with just two inches of water).

Our guides are some of the best in the business: carefully trained, hard core sport fishermen themselves, who are intimately familiar with the complexities of peacock bass fishing in the Amazon. Many have guided American anglers for 10 years or more. With thousands of fish boated for clients, they'll put you onto big numbers of big fish like no one else in the Amazon. They are all eager to show you a fantastic adventure, welcoming you to their Amazon home. Each boat will have a certified Boga-Grip scale in case you catch the next world record.

The Unini River has become the recognized “Big Fish River of the Amazon” for its large number of fish that are caught over 10 pounds.

The Rio Unini is a tributary of the Rio Negro which is located some 200 miles northeast of Manaus, Brazil. The Unini is approximately 200 miles long. The Junglelows floating camp is located on the Unini. This is an extremely isolated region. The large riverboats cannot access this section of the river in all but the high-water, non-fishing times.

Each year the size of the fish seems to increase and the numbers of Big Fish caught per angler rivals any location in the Amazon. If you are looking for a river or destination with big numbers and little fish then this river is not right for you! But if you are after the Big Fish and several of them each day, you owe it to yourself to experience the Unini River. Under normal river conditions, you can expect to boat about 30 Peacocks a week per angler over 10 pounds. And you will probably lose twice that many fish. As with any fishing, there are no guarantees, but we do publish our results on our web site for all to see. Last season, more Peacock Bass were caught weighing over 20 pounds than were caught the previous season. We expect, with our rotating and conservation practices in place and with the limited pressure on this river, that this season will exceed the results of last season. The largest fish to date is 23.5 pounds. All fish are weighed on Boga Grip Scales that have been pre-certified by the International Game Fish Association. The weight is called by the guide and verified by the angler.

If you want a more rustic experience in the Jungle; want to catch some big Peacock Bass; want to catch a lot of Peacock Bass, look no further than The Junglelows floating camp will satisfy those desires.

Friends, I can't possibly express to you how convinced I am that the Unini River is currently "the place" to fish the Brazilian Amazon for Monster Peacock Bass. So l offer you this suggestion, there is an outstanding book, titled Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing, authored by our friend Mr. Larry Larson, "the authority" on Peacock Bass Fishing. Larry is an eight-time World Record Holder and 1999 inductee into the Fishing Hall Of Fame. He is the most traveled writer/angler to the Amazon in search of peacock bass. Get this: over a period of 52 trips to South America he has released 1,650 peacock weighing over 10 pounds, including 480 "teeners" (13 pounds or heavier) and 17 over 20 pounds. He continues his quest for a new world record. To order this must read book for the first time peacock angler or for the veteran peacock angler, contact Larry at www.larsenoutdoors.com.

You can also reach Larry at www.peacockbassassociation.com where he is the Executive Director.

When you receive your book pay particular attention to Chapter 4 Teeners Galore On The Upper Unini and Chapter 8. Uproar On The Unini River. Here is an excerpt from that chapter subtitled Giant Peacocks May Yank You Out Of The Boat, "A giant peacock exploded on my plug and then fired the afterburners and exploded away. If that sounds like a lot of "explosions", well, there is just no other adjective to describe this action! The fish ripped the rod from my hand and I watched it fly off and slowly start to sink." Now order the book.for the rest of the story!

Join us for a Fishin’ Expedition to the “Lost Lagoons” of the Interior Reaches of the Amazon Watershed in your personal “Junglelow!” Give us a call and let us plan your next fishin' expedition into the Amazon Rain Forest of Brazil to catch the explosive Peacock Bass!

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Or email: David@fishinexpeditions.com