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Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, which outfits some of the world's best fishermen, is telling some of its well-heeled clients about a fabulous new South American fishing hole. The place: Lake Titicaca, the world's highest (12,500 ft.) navigable lake, on the border between Bolivia...
Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca...
Moores quickly unloaded a rubber raft, paddled out into the lake and started fishing in earnest. Says he: "I made five casts and I hooked five trout, none of which could have weighed less than eight pounds. There's no other place in the world you can do that...
When fellow members of the La Paz Hunting & Fishing Club heard of Moores's catch, they remembered that Titicaca had been seeded with rainbow back in 1935, and that various tributary streams had been stocked off & on since then by the government. So far only 50 anglers have tried...
At home, Lucille, who collects stray cats and dogs, is an amateur painter ("I use oils because it's easier to correct mistakes than with water colors"), and generally considers herself a lazy, lounging homebody. She is fascinated by Desi's boundless energy.' He spends weekends fishing...