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...Rica is just as much an angler's paradise. Trusting, and innocently ignorant of flies with hooks, big rainbow trout swim serenely in never-fished mountain streams. Rivers churn with exotic fresh-water game-fish that cannot even be found in angling encyclopedias. There is the bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting & Fishing: Budget Safari | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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