If you look in to the Latin and Greek roots of fish scientific names, you’ll find some pretty cool examples. However, perhaps none paint a more apt description of their species than Hydrolycus armatus. The Armored Water Wolf. The Payara. The largest, meanest, most imposing member of a fish grouping […]
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Powerful, handsome, territorial, and ferocious; peacock bass have it all. While payara became my true love during our fishing trip in Colombia, the idea of massive peacocks was the trigger for me to drop everything during the middle of a pandemic and head to South America on three weeks notice. […]
I heaved my cast in to the roiling rapids for the thousandth time that day. The sun was setting on my last day of payara fishing during a recent trip to Colombia, and I wanted to hold just one more of these impressive predators. I stripped my heavy sinking line […]
“So you’re like a human smallpox blanket then, huh?” I received all sorts of reactions when telling people about my plans to travel abroad to Colombia for fly fishing during the middle of a pandemic. Some responded with supreme jealousy. It was like a lightbulb went off in their heads […]
SLC Native Thad Robinson and the guys over at Motiv Fishing are at it once again. This time they find themselves on un-fished waters in Colombia , searching for large peacock bass. With danger lurking around every bend (both animal and human alike) make this the ultimate fly fishing adventure. […]
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