Guyana : November 2013
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| British Guyana stamp featuring an Arapaima and her Majesty the Queen (it looks like she can smell it) |
Having sat on my allowance of holiday days all year, some other travel plans fell through so I started seriously thinking about fishing in the Amazon. To fish here has been a dream of mine from the wilderness years between the ages of 17-37 when I had stopped fishing in favour of other pursuits. I remember seeing a BBC Attenborough nature documentary about the Amazon where a little guy perches on the front of his canoe in a little creek and attaches a feather and a hook to the end of a whippy stick. He proceeds to wiggle this about just under the water for a few seconds and WHAM. He hauls out a large peacock bass. I thought to myself that 'that has got to be a great place to go fishing'.
Many years later in September 2013 I found myself fortunate enough to have holiday, money in the bank and a rekindled love of fishing. Previous fishing holidays to India had turned out to be wonderful experiences so I began to seriously look into living the dream and fishing the mighty Amazon.
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| Peacock Bass |
