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The Rio Tomo is a remote tributary of Colombia’s Rio Orinoco in the Eastern Plains region of the Department of Vichada along the southern border of Venezuela. For decades it is has been a lawless frontier of drug dealers, terrorists and anti-government insurgents. Wild On The Fly's intrepid field editor, Nicolas Olano goes there in search of big peacock and files this report:

It was Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009, 6 AM and I had just walked out of the Palometa Club with coffee cup in hand. At first glance down the beach a distant light reflecting off the white sand gave the startling impression that snow had fallen during the night. No noise emanated from Punta Allen, the small Mexican village of about 500 people where the Club is located. Punta Allen, is at the far end of a long peninsula projecting into Bahia de la Ascension on the Yucatan coast, its existence grandfathered in place when the Sian Kaán Biosphere Preserve was established.

Angler Lee Ann Ross (shown above with a "small" Nile perch caught in Devil’s Cauldron) filed this Journal entry from the tsetse fly infested banks of the Nile River at Murchison Falls, Uganda...

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