Hi Zach! Happy New Year… from Brazil

[marco fly cast]

Hi Zach!, how are you doing… I’m including here some pics of my last flyfishing week in Xingu River
I hope that you like.

[Neal Osborn]

This is the kind of stuff that makes this site great.

[marco fly cast]

Thanks!!!

[Zach Matthews]

Marco –

Those are really great photos, man!

[Brett Hoskins]

Marco

Great photos.

[marco fly cast]

Marco

Great photos.  I also felt like I was somewhere else. What kind of fish is in the 2nd photo?

Brett

Hi Brett!

The second fish is a BICUDA (pronounced “bee cuda”) it is a kind of similar fish a barracuda.  

The Bicuda (Boulengerella cuvieri or Boulengerella ocellata) are fishes with the lengthened and plump shape that has for main characteristic a pointed mouth (like a beak) and very hard. They are extremely fast fishes. This format favors displacements and plucked in speed. It is a species piscívora and highly voracious.

They are pelagic fishes, that came of the sea adapting itself in the fresh water. Generally they swim next to the surface or subsurface water. You can found the Bicuda in the Amazon river area.  

flies: streamers, poppers, sliders and divers are the best choices.

THIS IS THE XINGU RIVER:

I hope have helped you and sorry about my english.

[Zach Matthews]

Marco –

Is that what the Xingu looks like at low water?

Zach

[Zach Matthews]

Here’s high water on the Xingu:

Zach

[patrick mccormick]

Here’s high water on the Xingu:

Zach

holy shit

[Neal Osborn]

Marco and Zach, you have sparked my interest to say the least!  Thanks for the great pictures.  By the way, I was unable to find out what the name Xingu means (sounds Chinese to me; couldn’t find anything on Wiki).  Marco, do you know the origins of the name?  Zach, nice article on Brazil and the Zingu; I had read it before but now I took a closer look.

By the way, I had to look this up on the map; always something new to learn.

[Zach Matthews]

Xingu is the name of the indigenous Indian tribe.

[connor haggerty]

I think there is a Brazilian beer named Xingu correct?

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