• Air-Conditioned
• Private Baths
• Hot Showers
• High Mobility
• Protected Fishery
• Very Remote and Isolated
• Excellent Fly-Fishing
• No Bugs!
• Safe and Secure

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You’ll love the lifestyle efficiency of our new boat’s design, and the roominess and comfort it will provide.  With big, individually air-conditioned cabins,  private bathrooms, hot showers and spacious group areas, the "Blackwater Explorer" is one of the finest yachts in the Amazon.  Her shallow draft and wide beam will allow us to traverse sandbars and fast water to access regions others just can’t reach.

• One-of-a-kind Package
• Great Price
• Air-Conditioned
• Jungle Luxury Accommodations
• Protected Fishery
• Clear Black Water
• Conventional Tackle and Great Fly-Fishing
• No Mosquitos!
• Safe and Secure
• Excellent Numbers
• High Average Size

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• Research Trip
• Tax-Free Contribution
• New Water Daily
• Very Remote and Isolated
• Air-Conditioned Mobile Floating Bungalows
• Rio Negro Tributary
• Black Water

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• Air-Conditioned
• High Mobility
• Protected Fishery
• Remote and Isolated
• Excellent Fly-Fishing
• No Bugs!
• Safe and Secure

     Acute Angling will feature exclusive weeks during the peak of the Central Amazon fishery's angling season on one of the most consistently productive rivers in Amazonia.  Protected from predation, the Unini's dark blackwater favors surface action and results in violent, explosive topwater strikes.  Excellent daily catch averages (15 - 20 fish per day) and a very high proportion of trophy peacocks up to 26 pounds!   The Unini also features a population of huge red tail catfish up to 100 pounds! 
     We'll fish in a 100 mile area of complex braided river,  with innumerable big lagoons, oxbows, and productive creeks.  Our mobility allows us to fish as much or as little of this area as we choose.  Depending on fishing conditions, we can sample the entire  region or choose to concentrate our efforts on  sections with optimal productivity.   This flexibility allows us to find great fishing on all of our trips.  Return each evening to the comfort and security of the Blackwater Explorer.

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What you’ll find when you arrive are fully carpeted, tastefully decorated Cabins, with every detail carefully considered.  At the 12’ x 23’ dinning/sitting lounge, you'll dine on linen table cloths enjoying the chef’s four course meals.  Fresh breads and pastries are baked daily and chilled wines, ice-cold beer, soft drinks, and Brazilian-style Caipirinhas flow freely throughout your fishing trip. Each of the Floating Cabin operations are managed by a knowledgeable fisherman, experienced in handling the logistics inherent in Amazon fishing operations.  Since the groups are small, the staff and  bilingual host offer uniquely personalized hands-on attention.  Breakfast room service, laundry service and guest satellite phone are a few of the available amenities. 

What you won’t find are many pesky bugs. The pristine rivers they fish have naturally high tannin levels (from extensive leaf decay) which discourage the development of biting insects.  You fish from a fully equipped, 18 foot shallow draft bass boat, two anglers and one guide per boat.  Come challenge the mighty peacock bass and leave the crowds behind.

• 3 groups - 8 anglers
• Wilderness Camping
• Indian Reservation
• Peacock Bass
• Trophy payara
• Huge Trairao
• Giant Catfish
• Bicuda, pescada, pacu, piraiba, jundia, jau, suribim and more.

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We’re risk aversive.  Even though water levels are sometimes OK for peacocks in the Madeira basin in August, we never start fishing there until September.  Too uncertain.  Too risky.  We just don’t want to take the chance of operating an unproductive trip.
     All of us fishermen know the old saw we comfort ourselves with when the fishing just isn’t turned on the way we’d like it to be.  “Well, that’s why they call it fishing, not catching”.  Truly, if every day on the water guaranteed the same results, we would just offer “catching” trips for exotic species.  In reality, though, traveling half a world to go fishing for just one week out of the year, in a highly variable watershed with fish that migrate is risky business.  By its very nature, Freshwater Golden Dorado fishing is normally right at the top of that risk list.  So how do we deal with one of the riskiest fisheries of all, where even a rainstorm can turn them off?  We cut the risk in half, that’s how.

Our 2008 dorado trips will have the ability to completely switch locale on a day’s notice, depending on weather, water levels and fishing conditions.   Two lodges, situated 240 km apart in two fully independent watersheds will give us the flexibility to maximize our success and minimize the risk often associated with dorado fishing.  Although we’ll still have to call it a “fishing” trip, the “catching” part is far more assured.
     Comfortable and elegant Capita Mini on the Corrientes river at the outlet of Argentina’s famous Ibera marsh will be location number one, while brand new Dorado Cua in the Parana basin will be our second option.  Both fisheries have wonderfully attractive characteristics and are historically known for holding large populations of trophy dorado.  We’ll go where conditions are best, or we can even decide we’ll just sample them both.