When you are used to catching normal-sized trout in normal places, visiting Jurassic Lake in Patagonia (full story in issue 20), feels like a journey into a parallel world. To put it bluntly, our minds were blown. Massive fish, in their hundreds, caught on dry flies, nymphs, streamers, deerhair mice and whatever else we threw [...]
Forced, by us, to select his favourites from over 400 species he has caught on fly, here’s what Jeff Currier chose from South America: "My first real trip to South America was to Venezuela in 1996. I went down there to catch Payara, aka Vampire Fish. By then I was so used to winging trips [...]
"Within the first two weeks of this trip I had my fill of rainbows. Rainbows grabbed streamers and took to the air, they yanked dry flies under by the dropper nymph and devoured ugly dry flies in splashy rises. Like a paperback novel or a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship, they provided constant sparks of excitement, [...]
