ok, i know this is late, this actually happened a couple of weeks ago.  i’m here for 5 weeks, hosting a couple groups and just doing some general hanging around.  i went from one camp to another, and back at the first one, took 2 days by wooden canoe going upstream.

Tsimane Lodge is broken up into 2 different camps just 15 miles apart as the crow flies (guests spend 3 days in each).  the first one is in Asunta on the upper Rio Secure.  the other is on the Rio Pluma.

this is from the last 2 days in Asunta from my first group.  Jim and Hayden stayed back at the lodge while Frank and Steve and i went up stream to check out the fishing up there as the fishing had been a little technical in the lower parts (with the guides, of course, we made camp).  we spent several hours pushing the boats thru the shallow rapids and got up to some gorgeous parts upriver.

a few dorado were caught in the 12-15 pound range, pretty decent dorado fishing.  however, moving up the river, we encountered lots of pacu.  here are some images of a few of the pacu that were caught on fly.  i’m trying to document the overall experience here, not just a bunch of people with big fish, although that’s important, but it isn’t just what this place is about.

here is also a set of images of one of the Tsimane “communarios” hunting sabalo with traditional bow and arrow.  sabalo are a carp-like fish that inhabit the rivers by the millions.  they are hunted for food by the Tsimanes as well as dorado and just about anything else.  it SUCKS to be a sabalo, i guess.  (photos © Joey Lin 2009), more to come soon…