Welcome to Lucho's fishing school. What a patient guy. Tucked under his right arm is his handheld fishing tool....no rods or poles for these guys!
You circle your weighted line overhead and toss it out into the surf.
"You're going to catch a big one!!" he reassured us.
We explored some of the Peruvian coast south of Lima for two days with Liz and Lucho after Christmas. We had a lot to learn about fishing Peruvian style.
First we had to find our bait, "muy muy." We had to compete with all of the seabirds that also think that muy muy is quite delicious. They use their long beaks to dig into the sand where the muy muy are hiding.
We, on the other hand, used long nets to dig down into the sand and used the surf to wash the sand out.
Which left these little wiggly "muy muy", which look like beetles, in the net. You then bait your two hooks on your weighted line. Yum!
The handheld wooden tools with the line wrapped around them are a more refined version of what we, and some of you, have seen on the Mexican coast.
A big one? Well.....the next day fishing from a boat Bev was happy to catch anything!"
We spent the night in Pucusana, a quaint little fishing town with a unique feature. At the end of town there is a little beach where the ocean passes through a natural tunnel in the rock bluff. See the opening in the back that looks like a door that passes through?
Swoosh!! Very impressive and powerful, especially to watch from above at night in the dark.
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