FAQs – Fish Colombia

FRECUENT ASKED QUESTIONS

Recommended tackle list for your trip:

– pe 8 popping/ stickbait outfit

– pe 5-6 popping/stickbait outfit

– light tackle outfit

– pe 4-6 jigging outfit

Fly Fishing

– 8 weight fly outfit

– 10 weight fly outfit

– floating, intermediate and sinking tip and sinking line.

– fly gallery link*

– Spinning and baitcasting: MH rod (peacock, payara, pellona, large matrinxa, shovelnose catfish, etc) Light Rod: spinning or casting 6-7 feet 50-65 pound braid

Heavy Rod: (optional): (catfish, pacu) Spinning or casting rod 5-7 feet 80-120 pound braid with topshot 100 pound mono + leader

Hooks: **While not obligatory, we encourage you to use inline single hooks for your peacock bass fishing. Hook up ratio is just as good.

1. Poppers 3-5 inch (4.3/4 inch yozuri, chuggbug, etc, feed, etc)

2. Walking baits 3-5 inches (amazon, heddon, etc)

3. Subsurface walking baits (rapala subwalk, husky jerky in both 3 and 5 inch, etc)

4. Rapala magnum hottiger, firetiger, in 11-14cm

5. Rapala magnum minnow or similar extra large minnow.

6. Minnows in 10-18 cm (yozuri, bomber, rapala, k-ten, etc).

7. Spinnerbaits in green, red, red and white, white, and extra skirts, (bring plenty spinner baits and plenty strong).

8. Casting spoons, 3/4 – 1 oz (great for everything).

9. Inline spinners or small cranks to play around with smaller games.

10. r2s wide glides in 20cm.

11. Paddle tails and jig heads

12. Large plastic fluke style lures

13. Deep diving plugs Colors: varies depending on time of day, conditions, anglers preference, etc. white, firetiger, chartreuse, black, red, redhead.

40-60 monofilament or fluorocarbon for peacock, matrinxa, pellona, etc.

50-220 monofilament or fluorocarbon for catfish.

30 pound metal leader for payara and pacu

Accessories: Swivels 50lb for payara crimps and small crimpers for large leaders 3-4 oz sinkers pliers boga grip single hooks only for peacock bass 7/0 – 10/0 hooks for catfish, pacu

Long sleeve everything, gloves, buff, hat and sunnies rain jacket (hope you won’t use it) bug spray, sun block, covered shoes.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

houses are available at both the Bogota and Medellin airports. ATMs are another convenient method.

The payment for airport taxes is in cash in local currency (Colombian peso) upon arrival

Bahia Solano: 30.000 COP (10 USD Aprox)

Puerto Carreño: 15.000 (4 USD Aprox)

Fish Colombia provides airport – hotel transfers.

When grabbing a taxi, always ask for the value of the trip before getting in and make sure the taximeter is running when you get into the taxi.

Colombian peso exchange rate varies from around 3.900 – 4.2000 COP to a Dollar.

Hotels are provided by Fish Colombia for the first and last night of the trip.

Medellín – Bahía Solano flights are usually around 9-10 and 1-3pm from Bahía Solano – Medellín. However the flights are frequently late.

For Bahia Solano 10kg in checked baggage and 5 kg in hand luggage. Overweight is 5.000cop (approx. 2 dollar) per kg. For Satena airline (Puerto Carreño and Puerto Inirida) overweight is 6.000cop per extra kg.

Rain gear, sun glasses, long sleeve shirts and pants, gloves, covered shoes and hat.

First and last night Medellin/Bogota hotel, domestic airfare, lodging, meals, 4 beer per day, beverages, fishing tackle in Bahia Solano is provided but must be paid to replace if damaged or lost.

Yes, laundry is provided.

Colombian made a 36 foot center console with twin 200hp Suzuki.

We designed the layout of the boat and had it built specially for popping and live baiting.

It has a 3.8 meter popping platform and rail designed for popping. 5 people fish it comfortably. It has a 55 gallon live well that I designed with round corners, 2 pumps, blue walls, etc.

It has 4 tuna tubes running 3400gph each. It has Simrad electronics. 4g radar to detect weather, boats, debris and birds. It has chirp sonar, airman transducer, structure scan, JL audio (2 amps, subwoofer, 6 speakers).

It also has fresh water wash-down for clients and their fishing gear.