Photo: Not JUST one more fish...

Once again we were sailing along and once again Dave 'suggested' we cooked fish for dinner, and he was the man to catch one... So he happily spent the next hour looking for his fishing box, sorting his line, choosing the lure, looking for his rod... I spent my time more fruitfully deciding what we'd have for dinner after he finally admitted defeat (I personally think the fishy grapevine operates whenever he's fishing in the area, they know they're safe...) He even asked what type of fish I wanted - oh the optimist!

Several hours later a strange noise was heard on deck and, as usual, we both jumped up and began looking round to see what was going on to cause us a problem this time. But no, we realised that it was the line being pulled out. Something had taken the line!

A frantic 10 minutes then followed while we worked out how to get the reel to pull in again, and then a long tedious and hard hour followed as we slowly reeled in the line. It was coming closer and seemed quite large, much discussion followed about what type of fish it was and whether it was a shark...

Eventually we got it close enough and then had to find the net to land it (and my camera to record the event - strangely people never believe Dave's tales about his fishing prowess). It was a fair size, another 30 minutes passed and finally it was on deck. It was Tuna again.

3 days later we were fed up with Tuna bake, tuna sandwiches, tuna salad, tuna curry...

Maybe next time we will let it get away....
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