Giles Hits Oman….
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Good news - I have been invited to Oman for some fishing (Not Salmon and not Yemen
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Good news - I managed to get air miles flights
Bad news - The journey goes something like this. 8 hours to Dohar, with a stop in Bahrain. 3 hours in Dohar. 2 hour flight to Salalah. 6 hour wait for wheeled transport at Salalah and then 250Km car drive….Fishing better be good.....
Yeah, I know - First World Problems.....
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My friend regularly has to travel to that part of the world for business-he says the transportation is enough to make him want to quit his job! [emoji23]
Un saludo!
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G. I see you would have flown over the famous Rub' al Khali, (The Empty Quarter), to get to Salalah from Doha. A place Wilfred Thesiger crossed on numerous occasions in the 40's & 50's with The Bedu. (Bedouin). He wrote a book, Arabian Sands, which had a profound effect on me, having myself lived in several places on the Arabian Penninsular in the 70's. A fantastic read.
Apologies for thread drift, & enjoy the fishing.
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I am fishing the small group of islands here:
Drive up from Salala yesterday was spectacular:
Off we go fishing (as it turned out just casting - no fish..
It was extremely windy and the boat ride back from the islands was 2.5 hours. I was lying on a bean bag at the rear of the boat and I swear I thought the crew were pouring buckets of water over me the whole way back. I got a tad wet.
Proof that people do catch. These are successful lures left behind by previous fishermen. If you can see weights on any of them, that is the weight of the GT that the lure caught….
