On our second to the last day, Scott Sawtelle and I hiked into a small lago where our burley guide, Preto, had built a raft out of some trees he had felled with a machete (no small task). He had strapped the trees together with vines and bits of collected cordage. The buoyancy of his creation was augmented with an air mattress he had slid between the logs. Unfortunately the mattress sprung a leak so we had to be constantly pumping a small foot pump to keep our feet above water. At the end of a circumnavigation of the lake, we had to muck thru knee deep mud to reach shore. Not an adventure for every angler, but it sure was a hell of a lot of fun!
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