Cody’s Fish: Belize

It’s 5:00 AM and guide Daniel navigates in the dark to a deep channel. Cody makes blind casts into the falling tide. Thirty minutes and a few fly changes later the line comes tight and rips across the surface. The fish erupts from the deep water and jumps again and again heading for the horizon. Then nothing. The line is slack. The big migrating tarpon has thrown the fly. Time for breakfast.

On location in Belize, I was documenting the difficult journey of acquiring license plates in 3rd world countries for Fly Fusion Magazine. Cody matches the type of fish to the specific places those fish can be found and makes beautiful art work out of the well traveled plates.