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Article: !ay caramba! the fish drink tequila like goatsuckers!(bass-fishing in Mexico)
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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IS LAKE HUITES A MEXICAN MIRAGE? OR THE BEST BASS LAKE IN THE WORLD?
Lately, in the northwest Mexican state of Sinaloa, there'd been rumors. Livestock and pets had been turning up dead, and local farmers were pinning the blame on a creature they called the chupacabra, or goatsucker, a five-foot-tall ogre variously described as resembling a giant rat, mad kangaroo, hirsute alien or punk rocker a la mid-'70s London. Chupacabra sightings first emerged in Puerto Rico, in the town of Loiza in late 1994; a few years later, they had moved west onto the mainland, to Sinaloa--one of Mexico's poorest provinces, a narcopolitical state where marijuana farmers cruise the dirt ...