by Carlito Rockola

I’ll get right on it!

I was fishing on the beautiful Rio San Juan at the mouth of the Rio Bartolo enjoying my first success of the trip. The Rio Bartolo Nature Reserves’ park office also sits at the river mouth. As I played and landed a nice, fat snook the park ranger came out on the dock and began yelling animatedly and waving us over.

After releasing the fish, we went over to see what he wanted. “Where’s your license? You need a license to fish the Rio San Juan,” he explained. “You can’t fish without one.”  “Since when”,  I asked my guide, I never heard of this, we fished before without one. “It’s a new law, to pay the rangers’ salaries” Agustin Llanes, my guide and owner of Monte Cristo Resort explained.