I am finally crossing off an adventure on my bucket list. I am sending in my deposit to go on a hosted trip to River Plate for peacock bass.

I'm a newbie to this type of fishing so would like to hear advice from anyone that has been out there.

Any advice or tips as to;

1) flies? Size? Quantity?
2) is most of the fishing done subsurface?
3) Sea Level travel stripping basket?
4) how many rods do you bring? I was thinking of one 10 wt and two 9 wt. Should I bring a 10 wt backup?
5) How many backup lines would you bring? I was thinking 2 floating, 3 intermediate and 1 F/I.

Any tips would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Bill