I might give it a go in 2023. I fished for Pavon (Peacock Bass) for years in Venezuela, but never got to Manaus. It's still on my bucket list.

I go several times, every year. I just got back from a three week trip. It was with a french outfitter that I had no history with.

Fishing was pretty good, made up for the total lack of organization and lies.

I posted a report in here. "Trombetas River"

The species we were fishing for are Chichla Thyrorus, Not Chichla Timenis found on the Rio Negro watershed. They get to 15-16 pounds.

I guess you consider the environment safe. I have a partner that has fished Mexico and Canada with me, but he may be a little shy about Brazil. Any suggestions?

The one thing I will tell him is to disbelieve any information from the U. S. Government website. The full nine years I lived in Venezuela the U. S. government warned U. S. tourists that it was unsafe. (They also listed more than half the other places I lived overseas as unsafe.)

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Originally posted by Kensco:
I guess you consider the environment safe. I have a partner that has fished Mexico and Canada with me, but he may be a little shy about Brazil. Any suggestions?

The one thing I will tell him is to disbelieve any information from the U. S. Government website. The full nine years I lived in Venezuela the U. S. government warned U. S. tourists that it was unsafe. (They also listed more than half the other places I lived overseas as unsafe.)

When you say environment, are you referring to the Amazon or the cities?

I’ve walked around at night in some pretty off the grid towns in Brazil and have felt completely safe. Santarem, Belem’, Orixamina. There are bad place’s everywhere. If I had to pick a country to expatriate in, it would be Brazil. You typically fly into Manaus and are greeted, shuttled to the hotel overnight, then charter next day to the fishery. 4-1/2 hours from Miami.

The environment at the rivers is pretty benign. No bugs due to the black water rivers.PH is too high for mosquitoes to breed. Lots of poisonous snakes in the jungle at night are out but typically we don’t wander around in the jungle at night. There are biting sand flies if you walk around barefoot in sand.

Not a lot of negatives.

I appreciate the update. Sounds doable.

Back in 2000 I was in Manaus working in a power plant and fished out of there many times, truly a great place!

We have our Brazilian visas. We'll find out soon enough.

I always found that the worst source for information about a country was the U.S. State Department. They always seemed to be warning U.S. citizens not to go there in every country I lived in while working overseas, particularly in South America. (If you believed them it always sounded like "oil" equated with "danger".)

We don't plan to stray too far. Maybe go to Cachacaria do Dede & Emporio in Ponta Negra.

We arrive and depart Manaus in the early morning hours so seeing much of Manaus may not be an option.