Bull Reds on the Beach
Fishing the Americas
The Sportfishing Journal ~ Sportsman’s News Feature April 2010
June 2
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How does one make the connection from “Giant” Mexican Largemouth Bass and the “Explosive” Peacock Bass of the Amazon to the “Brutish” Bull Reds of Venice, Louisiana? Here’s how, take a quiet evening on the veranda of Trophy Bass Lodge overlooking Lake Huites, Mexico and add a cold cervasia or a chilled margarita to the conversation between a group of guys, all veteran Peacock, Largemouth and Bull Red chasers (save one…ME). Veteran Largemouth and Peacock, well perhaps, Red Fish…no. Read More
View the companion video Bull Reds on the Beach 
for some great action!
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Rendezvous on the Unini
The Sportfishing Journal ~ Arizona Outdoorsman Magazine
La Querencia
As we lifted off of the terra cotta colored earthen runway, I looked out through the window to my left at the Unini River as it snaked its’ way easterly along a meandering path that would eventually reach the Rio Negro. Gaining altitude, I was beginning to see the numerous lagoons, sand bars, islands and tributaries and a red gleam… could it possibly be…the gleam of that same fiery, carnelian colored, eye that I had come face to face with only few days earlier.
I was returning from a six and a half day sport fishing adventure of daylight to dark-thirty…lure rippin’…drag screamin’…gear grindin’…hook bendin’…line bustin’ (yes, it happens to often) …explosive Peacock fishin’! Read more
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Return to the Unini
The Sportfishing Journal ~ Arizona Outdoorsman Magazine
Unini River…the Amazon Fringe
Saudade is probably the most significant and typical expression of the Brazialian soul, a combination of longing and desire, mixed with nostalgia and melancholy. Saudade is the desire 
for something or someone who is far away or is unattainable. But Saudade is not merely an emotional response to a situation or memory. It is a state of mind that Brazilians seek and thrive on.
Our trek would ultimately take us some 200 miles to the remote fringe area of Northern Brazil and the Lost Lagoons of the Unini River and perhaps even further up… into the black and shallow headwaters of the Preto River. Read More
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Peacock Tango
The Sportfishing Journal ~ Sportsman’s Heritage Television
Amazon Fringe Exploratory ~ September 2005
Like the numerous times before, Jo Jo swung the boat wide around the long narrow sand bar and quietly slipped in to the calm water on the backside of the bar some one hundred yards from the boca (entrance) to the “resacas” or oxbow lake just off of the river. The sun was perhaps thirty minutes above the jungle canopy and already splitting the western sky into a variegation of color. The Master’s sunset on canvas would change dramatically over the next thirty minutes.
Just as we rounded the bar I saw the Voyager in the distance waiting and resting against the rivers edge for our return. This, the last day of the six day exploratory adventure aboard the Amazon Voyager, was much to rapidly drawing to a close and the opportunity for a “Peacock Tango” with a member of C. Temenis over 20 pounds was dwindling quickly . Read more
