One of the most iconic fish you'll see across social media is the peacock bass, massive, vibrant, and found deep in some of the most remote jungle waters on the planet.

Today we're heading into one of those places Baku Lodge out of Columbia.

There the local indigenous community welcomes you like family, and you'll hear firsthand from three people on the ground and on the water of what it's really like to chase giant peacocks and untamed waters. This is the wet fly swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip and what you can do to give back to fish species we all love. How's it going? I'm Dave, host of the Wet Fly Swing podcast. I've been fly fishing since I was a little kid, grew up around a little fly shop, and created one of the largest fly fishing podcast out there. Today, Andres, Jason, and Nick are going to take us deep into the Colombian jungle to show us what it's really like to target these giant peacock bass, some up to 25 pounds. Along

the way you're going to learn why Columbia is much safer to travel to than most people think,

how this adventure is surprisingly affordable. We're going to talk about that today, a full week

at this lodge, a price we talk about at the end that is pretty amazing of what you get here and what

to expect when you're out there and how to prepare for your first jungle trip.

Plus, you're going to find out what the underloop Cass is all about from Nick, Nick the

Stick. He gets it done today. We're going to talk Lampson Liquid Outfit and all the rest.

Here we go. Without further ado, the boys,

Baku lodge.com. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Yeah. Good, bud. Awesome. This is great to have

you guys on here. I'm excited because I always talking to Nick, Nick Torres, from Lampson there.

We've had some pretty amazing

journeys over the year, Nick. We'll probably talk a little bit about some of the trips,

notably the Alaska trip, which we tend to go back. But you've been on the podcast number of times.

Andres, Jason, you guys are new. We're going to talk about Baku Lodge, a couple of species,

peacock bass, the vampire fish, some fish that we've talked about,

you know, Columbia. I think it's a place that's definitely a bucketless place. I mean, I think probably

everybody listening wants to get down there. And I want to kind of shed some light on this to let them

know what it's like, maybe how to get down there and how to put together a trip. Does that sound

okay for you guys? Absolutely. Okay. Cool. Well, let's just jump into a quick little round of intros.

And maybe, Andres, maybe we'll start with you and just do a, just tell us who you are and maybe

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