Pirhana Fishing

How do you catch a hungry pirhana? Well, if you´re Bean and I, you don´t (though, not for lack of trying). But if you´re just about anyone else, you use juicy, bloody beef on a fishhook.

We spent about and hour and a half in the hot afternoon sun, baiting our hooks, throwing them over the side, and then pulling them back up, strippped clean of any trace of meat. Those darn pirhanas are sneaky little devils! Meanwhile, our guide and boat captain were pulling fish out of the river like they were on some kind of Amazonian clearance sale.

After pulling vicious, saw-toothed fish out of the river, and hearing tales about river-dwelling Caymans and giant Anacondas, our guide and captain decided to take a break from the heat by jumping in the water! They simply didn´t understand why we might not want to join them. I guess valuing life and limb doesn´t hold much stock in the Amazon.

Generous souls that they were, our guide and captain did share their catch with us that evening at dinner. So, we weren´t entirely unrewarded for our efforts.

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