Pluma
The Rare Ones
This chapter at Pluma was built around friends and family.
Fathers and sons. Brother and sister. Lifelong friends. Returning guests and first-time visitors sharing the river together.
The fishing gave them plenty to remember.
Mike came to the jungle for the first time with his sons, part of the crew of guides from his own lodge and some of his oldest friends.
Sarah and Brian, a great brother-and-sister team, completed the group, back for a second round of fun in the jungle.
And the highlights of the week were the hard and rare ones: Sarah found the dorado she had been searching for across two trips and even beyond Tsimane. Quinn landed his first fish alongside his father only moments before the helicopter arrived. Mike somehow added a stingray to the week’s list of catches. And Chris spent 20 minutes locked into battle with a moturo, one of those rare fish that turns an ordinary fishing day into something completely different.
A complete week at Pluma.
14 Mike, Evan & Quinn, Brian & Sarah, Chris, David, Jeffrey, Jon David, Todd & Werner (United States); Andrey, Maksim & Denis (Russia). Andrey, Maksim and Denis stayed on from Week 15.
Sunny, perfect conditions for sight fishing and spotting fish all week.
The river stayed at normal levels and ran clear.
Catch of the Week
Sarah’s Fish of a Lifetime
Sarah had already been here once. She had seen the fish. She had come close.
But she had never brought one to hand.
She had even chased the same dream on the Paraná without meeting the fish she was looking for.
Then, on her second visit to the jungle, the opportunity finally arrived.
A large dorado swung out from behind a boulder and tore into her fly.
A few jumps later, after the first shock of adrenaline had passed, the fish finally surrendered at her feet.
Her smile told the rest of the story.
Memorable Moments
Just Before the Helicopter
Quinn had worked all day for his first fish. The clock kept moving.
Then, almost at the very end, just before the helicopter arrived to pick them up, it finally happened.
A first catch shared with his father.
Some memories need only a few seconds to last forever.
A Stingray on the Fly
A stingray is not something we expect to encounter often on a fly rod.
Mike managed it anyway.
One of the week’s rarest catches became another reminder that these rivers are capable of producing encounters well outside the usual dorado and pacú script.
Twenty Minutes with a Moturo
Then came the moturo.
Chris, a guide from New Mexico, found himself connected to one of these deep-water fish and spent approximately 20 minutes fighting it.
By the end, his arm had nearly had enough for the rest of the week. The fish had not.
It became one of the strangest, hardest-fought and most memorable encounters of Pluma’s closing chapter.
The Week at Pluma
A fish of a lifetime. A first fish with a father. A stingray. A moturo. And a week shared by friends, siblings, families and guides.
A chapter at Pluma built around friends and family, and around some of the hardest and rarest fish these rivers can give.
Until the next one!
Chuky, Guides & Staff
Pluma Lodge, 2026
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