South America is a continent that is near and dear to our hearts, if nothing else because it was our 2011 trip to Brazil that really jump-started our love of “exotic” fishing travel. Accordingly, we try to keep tabs on what is occurring both in the countries we’ve visited and in the ones that are still on our bucket list. Here are some of the links that have stood out to us lately.

I’m not ashamed to admit that I love Etsy, the online marketplace for all sorts of crafts and collectibles. I’m also obsessed with arapaima (AKA, piraracu), the largest scaled freshwater fish in the world, and one that I intend to chase sooner rather than later with my friend Steve Yatomi. 

My 30-pound payara was the fishing highlight of a very good year in 2019, and when my friend Leroy Boss got his replica before I got mine I was more than a little jealous. Two weeks later mine arrived from the great white north and it was truly worth the wait.