A good day fi we - Essequibo river Guyana 2014

Bigfish boys. - Me and Navin Roopnarain with my huge Jau catfish
 from near King William falls - Essequibo river - Guyana

Having missed out on catching many of the target species on my last trip to Guyana I booked a return 9 day extended adventure with Steve Townson at www.amazon-angler.com/ for late November 2014.  It turned out to be even better than I had hoped.  Read all about it here on D Heaps Fishing Adventures.

Teaser: 2014 Fishing adventure.

Hi.  Not much action on this blog lately as I've not managed to catch a big perch.   However.  I have been on another fishing adventure abroad and am working on the blog post for that now.   Here's a little taste of what's to come on D Heaps Fishing Adventures.

Can you guess where I've been?

Tackle review: Fiish Black Minnow

From the faddy world of sea bass lure fishing comes a new fad soft lure - Fiiish Black Minnow.  

Never get out of the boat. - Guyana : November 2013

Guyana : November 2013

British Guyana stamp featuring an Arapaima
and her Majesty the Queen
(it looks like she can smell it)

Having sat on my allowance of holiday days all year, some other travel plans fell through so I started seriously thinking about fishing in the Amazon.   To fish here has been a dream of mine from the wilderness years between the ages of 17-37 when I had stopped fishing in favour of other pursuits.  I remember seeing a BBC Attenborough nature documentary about the Amazon where a little guy perches on the front of his canoe in a little creek and attaches a feather and a hook to the end of a whippy stick.   He proceeds to wiggle this about just under the water for a few seconds and WHAM.  He hauls out a large peacock bass.  I thought to myself that 'that has got to be a great place to go fishing'.

Peacock Bass

Many years later in September 2013 I found myself fortunate enough to have holiday, money in the bank and a rekindled love of fishing.  Previous fishing holidays to India had turned out to be wonderful experiences so I began to seriously look into living the dream and fishing the mighty Amazon.

Best GIF in the world.

While you wait for the Guyana report.  Please enjoy the best gif in the world.  I could easily watch this for a day.