Fishing in Bolivia
Good buddy of mine, Nick Koontz is very close to his son, Andrew, and they’re fishing enthusiasts and buddies. How close? Try taking your son on a pretty exotic fishing trip. We went over to Bolivia. We flew in to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and took about an hour and a half plane ride to a lodge called Sumathi Lodge. And there’s three rivers. We fished the Plume, the Itserami and the Secura river. It was an amazing trip. We actually, the conditions were quite tough. We got rained out pretty hard, but still caught fish. And it was a great time. So it was primarily fly fishing. I think the whole thing is kind of on the Indian reservation and they only allow fly fishing with barbless hooks. And the main species we caught were called Golden Dorado. They’re a freshwater fish full of teeth. They’re amazing. As I understand it, the Golden Dorado is a large species of fish native to South America, and local fishermen know it as River Tiger. And there’s also a fish called a Pacu down there that we actually didn’t catch. We put some flies on one but didn’t get the fish to eat. And yeah, it was quite the trip. Yeah. The Pacu is a common name used to refer to several species of omnivorous South American freshwater fish that are related to the piranha.
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