Company Fishing Trip

Here's a few pics of Dave's company fishing trip last weekend up in Moeraki. The fishermen were a bit on the gruff side (I guess that should be expected for sailors) and certainly a bit lacking in their safety briefing (i.e. none). The first thing they said to us was "big sea today, gonna be bugger all fishing" . Translation: "The sea has large swells today and it's going to make the fishing quite difficult."

They weren't kidding about the fishing. We were out from about 7:30 to about 1 and we brought in about 35 fish between the 10 of us. I caught four, but threw 2 little ones back. But I'm at least happy to report that I've finally caught fish in New Zealand. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the fish, but believe me, they were enormous!!! Enormous and damn expensive. But I caught em. Yay to that. The other good thing of the trip was my success at not getting sick. Big sea, you betcha! Thanks to Andrea for teaching me the wrist pressure points to combat nausea. Hopefully the dents in my wrist go away soon.

Here's the pics