Hi All

Yesterday I decided to go for a fish. So off to Ocean Beach down here at Westport. Oh well maybe a few red cod things and some spiney dogs I thought. Weill buggar me. I had four big west coast snappers on the beach in two hours, our winter snappers are real big buggars. 12lb 14lb 20lb and a tiddler 8lb. Damm Im on a roll I thought. So of to that secret Cape Foulwind. Ten blue cod later I knew I was having a magic fishing day. And bloody hell next minute a hoki.

Well they make great blue fin tuna baits. 3 hours later I had him on the beach. 190 kg. Can this day end I thought. So I put a livie on and next minute whoompo. Oh shit this is a biggie I thought. He took three hundred yards of me but then I turned his head. And he started broaching. Well buggar me again. He had a bloody sword on and a sail on his back. Well then the fight was on. Its him or me,one was of us is going to die in this epic battle, I thought.

So we fought each other. No new fangled Veritas, just a bloody old Solaris with an Okuma Reel. The old combo before GK jumped ships.

Four hours later I had him or a her within 50 metres. He broached again, in all his splendor and waved his sword at me. As if in a salute. It was then that a tear rolled down my eye. No old mate your going to live on. Taking my pocket knife I cut the line. And it was free to once again roam the ocean, the place of its birth. And as I stood on the rocky headland. Pondering my fame for the first broad bill caught land based.

Well buggar me. There was a torpedo coming straight at me, at about a hundred knots. And then she just came right out, did a complete sumersalt, and I kinda think she gave me a smile.

Cheers Hardy