Brazilian Monsters !!

Silver Sovereign · Post by **Silver Sovereign** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:24 pm

Here are a few shots I posted for a guy I work with in Angola, His name is Konrad Ritter and he comes from Brazil.

This is an paragraph from Konrads email to me describing the fish he catches at home.

"The big fish is called Pirarara and was over 40KG, the second picture is one small peacock bass and the third baby Pirarara."

They use baitcasters with monfillament line.

They will use small ( not sure what is small for him because the so called baby one is huge ! ) Pirarara for live bait to catch the monsters, he says they get much bigger than the 40kg one he caught. It took him an hour and a half to get the big one in, they started when there was light and finnished in the dark.

Pretty cool looking fish - talk about a power tail !!!

Simmo12 · Post by **Simmo12** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:33 pm

SS they eat that thing?

Silver Sovereign · Post by **Silver Sovereign** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:42 pm

Yep they eat them, they are a common catch in small sizes, apparently they do not taste muddy and it is white firm flesh...Konrad says he tend to catch and release which is common where he fishes. They are caught in deep water where thre is alot of timber and holes on the bottom. Once hooked they will scramble for the structure and break the line.

So that is why he is smiling so much to get a big one to the surface !

drifter · Post by **drifter** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:15 pm

Hi SS, I have seen video's of yanks that wade out, find the holes, and pull them out by hand. Can you imagine getting spiked by one of them

muntzy · Post by **muntzy** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:55 am

G'day Silver Sovereign,
Those Pirararas are wild lookin things. Any idea where abouts in Brazil mate I'm guessing the Amazon? I am heading over to a wedding in Brazil for three and a half weeks in Feb next year hoping to tie in a fishing trip whilst there. Would love to get into the Peacock Bass. Reckon it would be a bit of fun!!

Cheers Muntzy.

max · Post by **max** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:07 pm

where do you book,we can only dream about getting PTs like that

Andy Grey · Post by **Andy Grey** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:25 pm

The Daly river has monster PT's, old man did the 'big tag' in 84 for fisheries and they got some bucket head models in the nets, might ask him to dig up the pics.

Blinky · Post by **Blinky** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:40 am

There was a show on Discovery a week or so ago called "Megafish of the Amazon", it had monster powertails, Snakehead and the odd Pecock Bass on it. A good flick. I think it may have mentioned guides.
I recorded it, anyone who wants a copy drop me a PM.

scottmac · Post by **scottmac** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:58 pm

Check out my post in the asian section of the international forum. You can catch some monster PTs in Thailand, and they pull like freight trains!

Not the prettiest fish goin' round though!

4x4xfar · Post by **4x4xfar** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:21 pm

The p o w e r t a i l they call "Pirarara" is known as the Red-Tailed p o w e r t a i l in most western countries.
You can get them in the Aquarium Trade.