Argentina-Low water poaching

The Panara and Uruguay Rivers are at all time lows.  With the current virus shutdown being enforced in Argentina, numerous reports of poaching taking place has been reported.  Gamefish such as golden dorado and surubi catfish are schooled up in the deeper holes which are easy prey for illegal poaching.

Hopefully rains arrive in South Brazil soon to get the levels in the rivers up.  Conservation police should do their upmost to prevent this illegal practice and prosecute the poachers to the highest extent.  Use common sense and your greatest resource is the fisheries along with tourists pouring lots of money to the economy by wetting a line in your outstanding rivers.  I pray each day that this virus issue gets solved as quickly as possible thus allowing everyone to get back to their normal lives. 

The Chautauqua Bait Company

Recently, while looking for some jointed minnow type lures for a planned trip to Russia for taimen, I came across the Chautauqua Bait Company which is located in Earlville, Illinois.  CTQBait makes a variety of hand crafted, genuine cedar lures.  After browsing through the various lures on their website, www.CTQBAIT.com,

I decided to order a few 8 inch jointed Chautauqua Minnows and the 5 inch Super Shark.  These lures have stainless steel lips which can be bent to vary the depth.  Both lures run down to 8 feet upon casting.  They are made to order and come in some super colors.  I was able to cast both lures at my local lake and both ran better than expected.  I am sure that both of these lures will fool PNG bass and golden dorado which I hopefully will be fishing for quite soon!  The company makes some 11 inch jointed minnows which I plan to also order before my trip this October to La Zona for golden dorado.