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cananéia and ilha comprida

Preserved Lagamar, with snook, caranha and weakfish in mangrove channels. One of the best estuaries in the South and Southeast.

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Cananéia sits in the Lagamar estuarine complex, between Mar Pequeno, Ilha Comprida and Ilha do Cardoso. It's a network of preserved channels, gamboas and mangroves. Swordspine snook and fat snook at gamboa mouths and rocks, caranha in mangrove burrows, weakfish and croaker on the channel bottoms. On Ilha Comprida, an open-sea beach with betara and flounder. Boat fishing with artificial lures and live bait, almost always guided by the tide.

best season

JanFebSeaAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Warm water, October to April, for snook and caranha. In winter, croaker and weakfish.

Local rules: Cananéia-Iguape-Peruíbe APA and Ilha do Cardoso State Park: rules by zone. Goliath grouper (mero), common in the estuary, has catch banned nationwide. Caranha may have a special rule by conservation status. Check local rules.

getting there: São Paulo, about 270 km via the BR-116 (Régis Bittencourt) and the SP-226.
facilities: Inns, marinas, fishing guides and boat rentals in Cananéia and Ilha Comprida.
basin: South Atlantic
coast: Southeast Coast

tip

Caranha lives in burrows. Live bait pinned to the root and a locked drag: letting out line means losing the fish.

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Each card shows the day's index (0 to 100) and, below it, a strip with the index for each hour, from 0h to 23h. from poor to excellent.

what you can catch here

Centropomidae

Common snook

Centropomus undecimalis

Brazil's largest snook and the prize of coastal fishing. Hunts with the tide running at inlets, mangroves and rocky shores.

EstuarySea

time of yearbest: Oct–Mar

Centropomidae

Fat snook

Centropomus parallelus

The most common snook in estuaries. A classic for night fishing with live shrimp, and excellent on shrimp lures and jig heads.

EstuarySea

time of yearbest: Oct–Apr

LutjanidaeVU

Cubera snapper

Lutjanus cyanopterus

The largest red snapper on the coast, king of the rocky shores. Vulnerable: recreational anglers may only practise catch and release, with a closed season in August and September.

SeaEstuary

time of yearbest: Nov–Mar