THE FISHING OF THE TUCUNARÉ IN AMAZON
Called for many as Lung of the World, Amazonian Forest it makes
an impression for its gigantic dimensions, the variety of the fauna and flora, for its magnificent rivers and lakes. Sporting Fishing. Thousands of species of fish inhabit the rivers of the Amazônia. With all its exuberant biodiversity, the Amazonian Basin is obligator route for the loving ones of sporting fishing. It is an only place, where if it can find clean and preserved rivers and lakes, in way to its undisputed wild beauty. It is important to remember that it fishes it just for sport it is an ecologically correct activity and it provides uneven moments of pleasure to its practitioners, each day more worried about the maintenance of the environment and the preservation of the species of the fish, since without them the sport cannot be practiced. Tucunaré (Cichla monoculus) Predator par excellence, the Tucunaré is considered symbol of sporting fishing in Brazil. Its voracity is so great that it is capable to attack hooks same without bait. The Indians already fished it with artificial baits before exactly of the modality to be practiced by the sporting fishers. Some types of Tucunaré frequent the rivers of the Amazonia, the most known are called Açu, Paca, Pitanga, and Butterfly, has as characteristic the yellowish skin in common and one circle in the similar tail to an eye. They reach about 1,20 mt of length and up to 15 16Kg. During the time of it dries, inhabit the lagoons mainly edges, leaving for the bush flooded (igapó) during the full ones. In the lagoons, during the beginning of the morning and end of the day, when the water already is more cold, if they feed next to the edges. When the water warms, passes to the center of the lagoons; in the absence of lakes, the Tucunaré takes shelter in backwaters, therefore they are not appreciators of waters of strong rapids.