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Just a tumble

Posted by Yoey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Yoey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 11/11/2012, 2:35 pm

Another fine display of ahletecism. Field weekend 3 was turning into a non event apart from two kahawai.

but I was fishing good water at Mohaka just back from the river mouth. At about 5am I had set the rods with new baits, put my deck chair away from the back of my wagon, placed the chilly as a step and climbed into the back to get out of a nasty offshore breeze. I was sitting there comfortably nice and warm when suddenly out of the side window I saw one of my rods fold in half followed by some awesome tugs on the line.

. What happened next would have won me a gold in the gymnastics at the Olympics.

I shot out of the back faster than Usain Bolt out of the starter blocks, missed the chilly bin, hit the ground, tripped on a rock, did a sommersault with a triple twist, landed, went through my chair

which catapaulted me into the air, during which I managed a glorious swandive with a half pike only to land face first in the sand some 15 meters from where I started.
I got up sanded myself off and promptly looked around to make sure no one had seen this act. Then brain engaged again and I remembered the rod. I rushed to it, struck the hook only to see a B####Y seagull tangled in the line. But like a trooper I rescued the afore mentioned bird and sent it on its way, though, only after I had cut the line on the wrong side and didnt realise I had done so until I went to pick up my sinker only to find it was only a peice of driftwood and my sinker was still some 20m out to sea.

All this after I had to rescue my wagon from a swamp which took 2 hours but that is another story.

Re: Just a tumble

Posted by Rex HB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Rex+HB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 11/11/2012, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Just a tumble"

Good to hear you didn't suffer any injury other than your pride. So Mohaka now has a Yeomans Drop and a Yeomans Tumble. At least there was no water involved

. Took me six weeks to train that seagull

Re: Just a tumble

Posted by Hangler <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Hangler' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 11/11/2012, 6:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Just a tumble"

Yoey, you seem to be very gullible. Had you been seen abusing our native wildlife, you could have been up before the beak.

Re: Just a tumble

Posted by racepics <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=racepics' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 12/11/2012, 11:11 am, in reply to "Re: Just a tumble"

I don't think the scavenging flying rats should qualify as "wildlife".
It was very generous of Yoey to take the knife to the line instead of the rat.

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Re: Just a tumble

Posted by Naki-Fisher <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/surfcasting/info/user=Naki-Fisher' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on 12/11/2012, 11:24 am, in reply to "Re: Just a tumble"

Lucky one Yoey glad to hear your OK

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