OK, I've got to eat my words. Joe has caught a fish! His effort has been rewarded and here is the evidence. Yesterday evening, dinner finished and galley looking like a bomb had hit it, Joe takes himself out on the bank to contemplate ripples in the lagoon whilst I wander about and get into conversation with the chap on the crusty boat behind Caxton. Suddenly a shout goes up 'You've caught a fish, strike!" and while Graham of Matilda Rose rushes to get a landing net, Fletcher joins in and ties himself in fishing line and float which he proceeds to wrap around me in his excitement - see Fletcher wasn't convinced his master could catch fish either. Estimates are that it was a one and a half pound roach but whatever, we were all very proud of our 'hunter gatherer' even if we couldn't eat it...
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Catch of the Day
OK, I've got to eat my words. Joe has caught a fish! His effort has been rewarded and here is the evidence. Yesterday evening, dinner finished and galley looking like a bomb had hit it, Joe takes himself out on the bank to contemplate ripples in the lagoon whilst I wander about and get into conversation with the chap on the crusty boat behind Caxton. Suddenly a shout goes up 'You've caught a fish, strike!" and while Graham of Matilda Rose rushes to get a landing net, Fletcher joins in and ties himself in fishing line and float which he proceeds to wrap around me in his excitement - see Fletcher wasn't convinced his master could catch fish either. Estimates are that it was a one and a half pound roach but whatever, we were all very proud of our 'hunter gatherer' even if we couldn't eat it...
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Its a bream - you can tell by the long anal fin. Big ones are brown but ones that size are silver.
Loved the pic of the Home & Colonial stores. I didn't think any of their shop fronts had survived
Thanks Neil, the 'novice fisherman' has been informed!
Lesley
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