North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine APRIL 2017 | Page 4

Barbus barbus: a European freshwater cyprinid fish (Barbus barbus) with four barbels on its upper jaw; also : any of various closely related fishes. by JOHN D. MALISON 4 “Twelve meters, and lay it half a meter in front of the fish,” Luis said. Those words were uttered to me by my guide when we were still thirty feet from the lake. I was frantically looking out into the open water for the fish, so that I would not screw up my first shot at what Luis referred to as a European Bonefish. I was still searching the open water when he finally pointed to a fish swimming not three feet from the shore. 5