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  • This is official green on the trail of for 20 years.

  • Now, since I first coming to South America trying to work out where the big ones are still to be found Most places the trail is going cold.

  • This place that I thought was unknown toe outsiders One might have left too late Fishing Daytime night time.

  • Evening rolling, Mr Lansing.

  • Lose track of time.

  • What day it is, man.

  • In this sort of in between state, it is not exactly a way so exactly asleep somewhere halfway between the two thieves, place gets too.

  • I must keep my eyes on the prize.

  • A man sized Lau Lau I awake to the calls of howler monkeys on for the first time in over a week.

  • Set out into a bright, clear day here my position a bait in the middle of the pool.

  • Then pay the line back to the rock.

  • It's when the fish tykes particularly big fish.

  • It could go to just complete chaos in a fraction of a second.

  • You don't do everything right.

  • That's when you can get human error.

  • A lifetime of observing on refining my skills has brought me to this place.

  • The trap is set.

  • All right, bring it about.

  • I'm 50.

  • Always alone.

  • It's a truly bizarre looking fish known as a D wala that's just so quiet at the moment.

  • I'd actually rather not be catching.

  • To be honest, I wanted the bait to sit there until our comes along.

  • But it does mean those are gonna get the bait back out there again.

  • Get the booth.

  • Let's go take up slack.

  • Put that down until something decisive happens.

  • Small.

  • Siri's.

  • This time I have no doubt about what's on my line.

  • That's going to bonus round the waist.

  • Getaway place Never lie to my face is a pain in the awful story.

  • This gear is designed for the heaviest ocean giants, but is it strong enough just around the role I'm using?

  • Think mono filament line for just this reason.

  • But it's being tested to its limit.

  • I can't let that line break.

  • Gotta get away.

  • Please.

  • We need to be careful with this.

  • That's good.

  • It's out of the road.

  • What everyone?

  • But this point is not over yet.

  • The fish is nowhere near tired yet.

  • All right, There it is.

  • Just be very careful.

  • Never fish could kick off with a nose like this, Uh, because we help me around the waist.

  • It's an unbelievably muscular animal, built for speed and power first, and there's its signature weapon, that enormous mouth.

  • Oh, it's got a bit of a bite.

  • I'll bring it somewhere whether it can't if it kicks is not sloping down, I have to work quickly to remove the hook.

  • Good measure this enormous beast.

  • I don't want it to be out of the water any longer than absolutely necessary.

  • In inches on earth in front of the dorsal fin is 50.

  • I'm having to use scales designed for lifting concrete blocks 258 to 56 to 57 4.6.

  • I think, if you put it in, So it's a 250 kind fiction.

  • My whole life, I've longed for this moment.

  • President Roosevelt's account inspired me to look for one.

  • He never actually saw one, but here it is.

  • This moment is actually very short for us.

  • I think it's gonna go back in.

  • Let's look around intothe.

  • I really actually wanted to sit and just look at it.

  • Look at it.

  • I think there's every show starfish will never be seen by anybody again.

  • That's bigger ones down there, believe it or not, their thing going on down there.

  • But maybe that's big enough for me.

  • For now, if ever something was worth waiting for, it's this river monster off our lifetime.

This is official green on the trail of for 20 years.

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