Untamed Angling's Rodrigo Salles caught a 25.3-pound, 92-centimeter peacock bass on a fly, which is a new all-tackle length world record. (Photo courtesy Rodrigo Salles)
January 13, 2023
By Fly Fisherman Staff
The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) announced that Rodrigo Salles of Untamed Angling landed another all-tackle world record peacock bass on fly gear.
On his very first cast of August 25th, 2022, Salles hooked a strong fish on Brazil’s Rio Marié . After a several-minute battle, the massive 25.3-pound, 92-centimeter peacock bass came to hand. It was later certified as the new all-tackle length world record.
“We can land monster peacock bass on fly,” Salles said in a press release. “It’s a war waged and all anglers should experience that!”
Salles employed a Thomas & Thomas Exocett SS 9-weight rod, a Nautilus NV-G 7/8 reel, a Scientific Anglers Sonar Custom Tip Jungle fly line and Absolute fluorcarbon leader , and a Pike Terror Flies streamer for the record fish.
This was Salles’s second IGFA peacock bass record in as many years. On September 4, 2021, he landed a 91cm speckled peacock bass, also on the Rio Marié. With this fish, Rodrigo tied the IGFA All-Tackle Length World Record for the species.
