Agua Boa Amazon Lodge - Overview

Location: Brazil

Season: October 22, 2011 to April 14, 2012. The program operates on set dates (Saturday to Saturday) during the season.

Capacity: 12 anglers per week

The Agua Boa Amazon Lodge, formally known as Royal Amazon Lodge, is located on the Agua Boa River in the northwest portion of the Amazon Basin, Brazil. This lodge offers the unique opportunity to sight-cast with a fly rod in a clear-water, white sand-bottom river for large marauding peacock bass. The Agua Boa is a shallow river with many white sand bars and flats. Bass prowl these flats in search of food and can be cast to like an overly aggressive bonefish from a poled flat-bottom boat. While there are many large fish in the main river system, huge numbers as well as big fish can be found in the oxbow lakes and lagoons that line the river's edge. On some days guides will run to a particular point on the river and leave the boat for a short trek on a jungle trail to an isolated lake. You will often see monkeys, macaws, parrots, tortes and other rain forest sights on these walks. Upon arrival at the chosen lake, another flat-bottom boat awaits that is outfitted with a paddle and push pole. Some of these boats have motors; however, most lakes do not require them due to their size and depth. When fishing these areas, anglers can expect to spend a portion of the day there and the rest stalking fish on the river. The river, lakes and lagoons can be fished in several ways, either with floating line and poppers or shallow-running flies for some aggressive visual action and with intermediate and full-sinking lines in the deeper sections for large fish.