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| Catch of the Day - The Wallach Double |
Fishing Day 5:Guide: Christian
Native Guides: [Didn't get the names]
Fishing Beat: 4
QOD (Quote of the Day): "It was worse in Kamchatka." - Dr. Fred
Christian is our guide today. We revisit and reexplore the same beat as as our first fishing day on the Iriri with Ezekiel. Which was a very good day. On that first day we didn't know what to expect. It was all new and simply catching fish, regardless of size and species, felt like a cause for celebration and photo documentation. There's just as much excitement and anticipation today on day 5, but we may be a little jaded and set our expectations a bit higher. We explain our objectives for the day to Christian. We want more fishing while wading than fishing from the boat. And we'd like to focus on catching a wolf fish.
We didn't meet all of our goals for the day, but as far as exceeding expectations, our double catch cleared the bar. We were drifting down a narrow channel between rocks. Harlan was fly fishing portside from the front of the boat. I was spin casting to the starboard side from the middle of the boat. Peacock Bass hit both of us at the same time. We reeled them both in. - "The Wallach Double":
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| Jockeying for the close-up. |
Definitely the highlight of the day. You might also notice there is bite out of the tail of Harlan's bass. That courtesy of a piranha attacking the bass as he was landing the fish.
Of course the Hellers have to try and one-up us. They post a triple from their boat, which I grudgingly submit here as the Token Heller Fish Pic of the Day:
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| The Heller Triple |
Not to put too fine a point on this, but it's worth mentioning that you can only get a triple if you have three anglers in a boat that was intended for two. There were two Wallachs in our boat. There were three Hellers in their boat. I think you can see where I am going with this. If Wendy and Robyn were in the boat with us, we would have had a Home Run Quad.
More stuff happened this day. Some more fish. Some nice scenery. Wildlife. Another whiff on the wolf fish hunt. But everything else was an afterthought after the Wallach Double. Some more pics & vids from the day:
More Fishing
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| More Fish - Peacock Bass... |
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| Piranha |
Skunked again at another wolf fish lair
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The Iriri
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Back at the Lodge, drinks, dinner and Dr. Fred fish stories were excellent.
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| Harlan had three helpings. |
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