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What's New Over at the fishing the Americas Blog
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IS Outdoors Magazine Online
Our new column fishing the Americas begins with the July issue available now over at ISOutdoors. Sign up for yourFREE monthly edition. It's all about enjoying the outdoors and sharing it with you!
Bienvenidos!…welcome to a new column of IS Outdoors….fishing the Americas.
I’m excited and grateful to have the opportunity to bring you exciting stories from great destinations and fresh reports from throughout the Americas. In it, we will showcase the great bass fishing lakes of Old Mexico as well as the exotic fisheries of Central and South America. And, if you are a saltwater angling purist, your appetite for fresh information about the incredible world class sport fishing found along the sparkling Pacific coast, will be well fed. Often, our journal entries will take us from the pristine and pure waters of Canada to the exotic locations like Belize, Panama, Costa Rica of Central America and the Amazon of South America as we search the Americas for the most exciting in sport fishing adventure destinations. In addition, we’ll also look at destination specific tackle and technique’s; how to get there; where to throw the bags; and much more.
So check in each month where you’ll find us fishing the Americas.
Until then…good fishing!
David Fields
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***NEWS FLASH***POTENTIAL NEW WORLD RECORD PEACOCK BASS!
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 Bob Daly reports:
On Feb 9, 2010 angler Bill Gassmann of Des Moines, Iowa, caught a potential World Record Peacock Bass weighing in at 28lbs. The old record was 27lbs caught by Doc Lawson on Dec 4 1994.
Gassmann was fishing a Luhr Jensen Big Game Woodchopper Slim in Clown coloration and was fishing a tributary of the Upper Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon.
Gassmann's guide, Aldeni "Elvis" Fonseca immediately knew the significance of the catch and urged Gassmann to return to the Mothership.
The peacock measured 37 inches long with a girth of 25 inches and is pending certification by the IGFA.
Groups are forming now for 2010 fall season!
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West Group Returns From Huites...2nd Time Around!
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Sorry for the delay on the report. We fished from 1-13 to 1-16. This year there were 6 of us plus 2 additional guests from central Illinois. As always, the food, service and accommodations were outstanding.
After last year 'that nothing on earth can compare to, we still managed to catch an absolute ton of fish!! Our largest weighed in at just shy of 10lbs but was just shy of 30" long!!! After returning home (without exact girth measurements), we found out the scale was 1.3lbs off!!! My dream fish!!!
 I was ruined mainly because the first 3 fish boated on the first morning were in excess of 8lbs including the near big fish! Pictures attached.
All were caught on my Lip Ripper Jigs red head and watermelon and red skirt in 20' of water. And nothing has changed! Luis picked up a rod and had one of them!!!
Fishing was a little off the first day but still managed to have a 100+ each day. If it is any sign of things to come, everyone there caught an extreme amount of 10-13" fish. If 1/2 survive, the lake should be unbelievable in a couple of years!!
Second day was great fishing again with everyone reporting 8# fish in the morning and 4-6lb fish that were caught at a rate that you could not keep track of all of them! Lots of 7lb fish also.
It got slow in the early afternoon so Luis started his crap! Grabbed a chatter bait, ripped the skirt off. Took a skirt off of a jig and put it on and ripped the legs off of a creature bait.  This was the most awful looking thing on earth!!! He turned around and threw to the center of a cove. All that needs to be said is picture attached! Again the totals were about the same as the first day. Lots of fish on spinnerbaits!
Now comes the third day!! TOP WATER BITE IS FANTASTIC!!! 150 fish in the morning and the first 3 hours were on buzz baits and torpedos. Most all fish were 5-9 lbs!! The crankbait bight after the sun came up was great on jointed shad rapps and DT10 rapalas. The Porters killed big fish on DD22's and swim baits!
4th day was play day!! We had a ball catching fish on anything we threw! The fish came up on shad and it was game on! In my boat I can say we had in excess of 800 fish total over 4 days and from what the others say the totals were very similar!
Again, Thanks for another outstanding trip and we're already planning next year.
Bruce West
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