Believe it because I fished at a tiny spring creek that winds through Burgin's Estancia del Zorro property, and heard stories of a legendary fish nicknamed "Tippet Cutter" that lived under a nearby bridge. I fished with 2X tippet -2X on a spring creek, mind you- in anticipation of the rodeo that would take place if I were to hook something like the 32-inch, 15-pounder that came out of the same creek a couple seasons ago.

But mainly I believe it because Rodrigo says it's so, and I've come to believe everything Rodrigo says. I told Rodrigo I would kiss him, wich probably weighed on him a fair bit. He was the guide, after all - and had to make the gringo happy- but he's also a Latin guy, and so was probably bothered by the prospect. Who knows what gringos are goin to insist on?

Two days prior, I was fishing on another spring creek and caught tons of decent fish, just pop, pop, pop one right after another - in my first five cast I'd caught three fish- but nothing particularly large. Today I wanted something... hefly. I was trying to be reasonable. I'd heard over and over again rumors about the 10-, 12-, 15-pound browns lurking under the cutbanks."Rodrigo," I said, "how could a fish that big hide from me in this tiny little creek?"
"Those dudes are hard to catch. They are wild and intelligent," he replied.
"That's why they are big."
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