VAIL, Colorado — Some fishermen in Belize have caught (and released) the same fish so many times, they’ve given them nicknames. They pull their wooden boats up onto flats — white-blue areas of shallow water in the middle of the ocean — where permit fish come up on onto the sand. The fishermen recognize the beautiful silver fish by the markings on their fins that stick out of the water, says Al Perkinson, the vice president of marketing for Costa sunglasses, which sponsored a documentary film about fly fishing in Belize called “Currents of Belize.”
“We like to tell stories that are fishing-related that inspire people to protect and conserve,” Perkinson said.
The film is part of the Teva Mountain Games Outdoor Reels Film Series, which is showing tonight at the Lodge at Vail. The movie, which was shot last year and released this spring, focuses on Abbie Marin and Lincoln Westby, two fly fishing guides who spend their days out on the flats chasing the elusive permit, which Perkinson calls “the most elusive and difficult fish to catch on the fly.”
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