Giles Hits Oman….
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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….
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Great shots!
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Just took a Skype call from a VERY excited Giles… watch this space...
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A 40Kg plus GT is a GT fisherman's dream….
45Kg
A 60Kg is a pipe dream.
Today, I did both (in the right order):
60Kg
Needless to say, I have a load more images and a 10minute vid of me playing the 45. It makes for some humorous viewing….(yes, I was completely and utterly fucked......)
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Bless him, he's on Cloud 9: "it's a fish of a lifetime", which presumably means he won't ever want to go again, having reached such a pinnacle
