What a bite!

This specimen was caught by my partner, and was the first catch of the day. This is a piranha and as you can see, you would not want to get bit by this fish.

I caught a lovely pacu, a bit larger and also with teeth, but not nearly as nice as this piranha.

We did not keep these fish because the Rio Negro is a 'catch-release' river. In Brazil, we were told, that this means you can only catch what you will eat that day. We weighed our fish, measured their length, and then returned them to the Rio Negro. Don has established a method of collecting this information from local ranchers that helps monitor fish life in the river throughout the season.