Fishing With Larry

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In August 2009, I was lucky enough to be one of the first angler clients to fish a hot new spot in the Bolivian Jungles, on select tiny tributaries located in the foothills of the Andes. The fishing and camps were nothing short of spectacular. After returning home, the immediate thoughts were whether this great new fly fishing discovery would last. In not wanting to take any chances, my fishing colleague and I rebooked to give it another try. This time it was much earlier in the season, May instead of August. With that earlier time and not knowing the patterns of the rainy and dry seasons, we would hope that the weather and stream levels would be comparable to the previous August. If the streams were in good shape, then would the big dorados still be there, hunting their major food source, the sable? After a good night’s sleep at a Santa Cruz five star hotel, we departed for the municipal airport for the two hour flight to the first camp. The flight by a small Cessna was uneventful as arrived at the village of Asunta, the access point to the Secure’ River that would lead us to the first lodge. The journey upstream from this tiny village to the lodge is only about 15 minutes by boat. This would be our home for the next four nights. By the time we arrived at the lodge, it was too late in the day to journey too fare away, but we could still prepare our rods and fish the home pool. The home pool sits immediately below the lodge and provided us a good introduction to the types of water that we would fish over the next several days. The home pool also contained several dorados of all sizes, including a few thirty pound plus fish that could be sited from the balcony of our rooms in the early morning. These home fish proved to be incredibly difficult to catch and would ignore every offering 99% of the time. Then, when the feeding frenzy switch is flipped to on, and the cast is made without spooking the fish, the thrill of hooking into a giant dorado is realized! The accommodations at both camps one “Asunta” and camp two “Pluma” are nearly identical in layout, size of rooms, and the dining area. Each camp overlooks the respective river where one gets the fishing bug as dorados almost continuously corner their prey into the shallows. The rooms are oversized and double occupancy, providing more than enough space to spread equipment out in preparation for the next day’s fishing. Each room has its own private bath that includes showers and sinks with hot water. Lighting in the rooms is very good, though it attracts bugs. The windows and doors are all covered with screens, but the bugs still make their way in so we just had to be attentive to keeping these open a minimum. These rooms are very comfortable to say the least. The dining hall was the place everyone gathered after the day of fishing were stories of the day were shared over delicious appetizers.

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