Rio Negro Day Two
18/04/10 21:09 Filed in: Uruguay
Back aboard Menkar for another day on the Rio Negro.
Nancy and Dominique at lunch en route.
Gilles the skipper.
Approaching a secluded anchorage some 2 hours down river from Mercedes.
Lovely beach. The water here is comparatively clear when compared with the Rio Uruguay. We anchored in about 3 metres.
Time for a quick swim.
Relatively deep water close inshore with about 1 knot of current. Fish territory.
I caught a fish! Not a bad one at that. It weighed about 3kg.
My fish. Salminus Brasiliensis, common name Dorado. A fresh water carnivore, it is found in northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. It can grow to 1.2 metres (30kg) and is very aggressive. Those teeth can cause serious damage to the fingers of a careless angler.
I caught this one using a lure without bait and it took about 8 minutes to get it into the dinghy.
The fact that I caught it owes everything to Gilles skill in selecting our fishing spot and the fact that almost every time a lure was cast it was struck almost immediately. If a fish was lost another was on the line within minutes. All I had to do was land it.
Fresh out of the water at 18:00.
Cleaned and ready for the oven 18:48. My fish had two quite large partly digested fish in it's stomach.
Ready to eat 20:05. More than enough for four.
All done 20:40.
After eating we had an uneventful trip back to Mercedes in virtually total darkness and arrived just after midnight.
Our route today.
Nancy and Dominique at lunch en route.
Gilles the skipper.
Approaching a secluded anchorage some 2 hours down river from Mercedes.
Lovely beach. The water here is comparatively clear when compared with the Rio Uruguay. We anchored in about 3 metres.
Time for a quick swim.
Relatively deep water close inshore with about 1 knot of current. Fish territory.
I caught a fish! Not a bad one at that. It weighed about 3kg.
My fish. Salminus Brasiliensis, common name Dorado. A fresh water carnivore, it is found in northern Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil. It can grow to 1.2 metres (30kg) and is very aggressive. Those teeth can cause serious damage to the fingers of a careless angler.
I caught this one using a lure without bait and it took about 8 minutes to get it into the dinghy.
The fact that I caught it owes everything to Gilles skill in selecting our fishing spot and the fact that almost every time a lure was cast it was struck almost immediately. If a fish was lost another was on the line within minutes. All I had to do was land it.
Fresh out of the water at 18:00.
Cleaned and ready for the oven 18:48. My fish had two quite large partly digested fish in it's stomach.
Ready to eat 20:05. More than enough for four.
All done 20:40.
After eating we had an uneventful trip back to Mercedes in virtually total darkness and arrived just after midnight.
Our route today.