Bolivia; Tsimane 2013 season underway

We are very proud to announce the opening of our 4th season at Tsimane. The rivers were in great condition after a stable rainy season, and there are now massive schools of small baitfish and sabalos arriving, which means many dorado following them. These give us an idea of how great the fishing season will be!

This is the most extraordinary season opening ever. The very first groups enjoyed a lifetime fishing experience and the Tsimane operation is running better than ever.

Further to the amazing fishing, many improvements were made to the whole Tsimane Lodge operation as new 4x4 vehicles at Pluma Lodge – Toyota Hilux and Suzuki Samurai’s and new Cabins for the host and extra single angler at both Lodges.

One of the most important news this season are the new Headwaters Tsimane Camps at Upper Pluma/Itirizama, and Agua Negra in June. These are comfortable camps and we decided improve even more the Agua Negra camp to create a lodge environment, with electric power supply, double based cabins with beds, private bathrooms with hot water, a spacious living room and extraordinary location in front of river with a magical view to the Secure River. But the most important feature is new small road and a new 4x4 vehicle, which runs from main camp into up mountains making possible to reach new areas in upper Agua Negra River. The road runs close to the river adding important extra miles to fish. It’s much less physically demanding than Pluma/Itirizama camps and makes the Agua Negra operation a superb new option with untouched virgin waters.

We hope you enjoy this news and we would like to invite all to join us to another season at Tsimane waters.

Secure and Pluma Lodge Fishing Report – April 25th to May 7th

Weather conditions
Weather has been good throughout the week, temperatures between 25 and 33 degrees Celsius every day dropping in the night to 17 to 22, just perfect for active fish while fishing and a comfortable sleep after full days under the sun.

Water conditions
Water lever has been very stable, temperature between 18 and 25 degrees depending on the day. Almost every night little rain in the headwaters of Secure River changed the color of the river clearing up quick in the afternoons.

Secure Lodge
Beginning of the week has been good, many fish has been hooked and landed, luckily some of the anglers landed fish over 20 pounds and a couple of them reaching almost 30 pounds! After the third day of fishing, we saw high activity in the lower beats, a big school of baitfish and Sabalo was filling up the river with life. Luckily for us, many Dorados , Surubis, Yatoranas and Pacus were following the run making the fishing very exciting for the following days, we had anglers landing more than 30 fish in the sessions. The run of small Baitfish and Sabalo lasted four days and now has passed the lodge and keep going upstream. This has been the first run of fish we have received until now. We have information that another is approaching and will reach our fishing area in a couple of days; for sure we will keep you posted about it.

Best fish of the week
Two big fish reaching 27 + pounds range were landed, one on Cachuelas (beat 3) and one on the Canyon (beat one).

Pluma Lodge
We started the week with a only light rain that allowed us to start the trip without many concerns; this rain made its influence on the temperature and level of the river.

At the lodge´s opening we received some long time guests and was a very productive start with a lot of captures at Coruya zone, place where the morrajas (small baitfish) were making their way up, generating constant hunts of dorados and catfish.

Those captures were between the amazing 20 and 25 pounds range! To our surprise pacu fishing was discovered in coruya zone, adding more action in an already remarkable fishing area.

By the middle of the week as the second group arrived the Itirizama was in perfect shape with lots of sight casting action.

That evening some strong rain fall in upper river and the next day the rain would show up again, but wouldn´t stop our anglers to get what they came for, at Itirizama more than ten dorados were caught and many groups of pacu had been seen. At Pluma the fishing slowed down because of the water conditions but that wouldn´t stop Phil to catch the first catfish on the fly of 2013 season Coruya sectors still keep giving us great surprises.

Best fish of the week
At may 3rd we were happy to received five guests from Russia, and even the conditions weren´t the very best in terms of water color they managed to get the biggest fish of season, a dorado that weight 36 pounds, caught by Vladimir.

Check out our special offers running over the next few months at Tsimane. SPECIAL OFFERS AT TSIMANE, 2013 SEASON.

For more information please contact Steffan Jones or phone 01980 847 389