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Rio Negro and Madera Rivers, Brazil
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Rio Negro and Madera Rivers, Brazil

Peacock bass are indigenous to the Amazon watershed, and in the last decade have become one of the most prized exotic species for fly anglers. They’re not bass at all, but members of the Cichlid family, some of which may be in your kid’s aquarium. Their docility stops there. Anglers fly from Manaus, Brazil to an air-conditioned cabin barge deep in the jungle; the barges can negotiate the shallow water where the peacocks congregate.

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