riverman wrote:

I definately paid and will
continue to pay the pond owners: its a little R&R spot about 5 km out of
town called "Symphonie Naturelles", and they charge 1000CF to enter and
another 1000CF to fish, your gear or theirs, C&R or C&K (at the current rate
of 380CF = $1). They have a website that a search will find, I can't link
you to it because our internet server is down. I have no idea why I can
access the groups in the meantime.

I've got to admit that made me laugh. Congo, at least Bas-Congo,
Bandundu, and the two Kasais, are chock-a-block with tilapia ponds (tens
of thousands of which were put in as part of an excellent Peace Corps
program that lasted more than two decades). I had supposed you'd come
across a couple of ordinary farm ponds.

"Symphonie Naturelle". eh? That the RENKA business? I think you should
86 the tilapia and check out wherever that babe on the RENKA home page
caught the little tigerfish.

JR