Oman Fishing 2022

[Dmart]

Great Pics @Giles

[neph93]

@Matt:

Is that two turtles doing it?

@Giles:

Yep

@goosehd:

That looks quite enjoyable and picturesque.

Whatever works for you…

[goosehd]

I’ll give you this one…

[Madame Buttonfly]

Great photos @Giles x x x

[louisbosco]

bloody hell! that's brilliant!

[steelworker]

@Giles:

@Matt:

Is that two turtles doing it?

Yep

what the-Ive looked at that photo and can't tell if its flora or fauna. Or alive. ???

[Giles]

Does this help?

[jordanscollected]

I couldn't figure out why those abandoned homes looked odd to me. It was the lack of graffiti, used needles, and trash we see here in the US.

Massive waves, remote island, even with incredible views, no squatters

[mclaincausey]

Ahhh, a world without people. That sounds perfect!

Great shots and thanks for sharing G.

[neph93]

Typical man. He’s with her, but he’s thinking of someone else…. Probably Shelene Gomez.

(I’ll get my coat)

[louisbosco]

@jordanscollected:

I couldn't figure out why those abandoned homes looked odd to me. It was the lack of graffiti, used needles, and trash we see here in the US.

Massive waves, remote island, even with incredible views, no squatters

I'd give anything to be on those islands. almost reminds me of my days in the army with a coastal hook exercise. land on the beach, assault primary target..

[Matt]

Afterglow.

[ROman]

I have not been on the forum for about 10 days, this has been an interesting read, to put it mildly.

[Jett129]

I just came across this thread as well. Probably the fastest I ever went through this many posts. Thread binging! Happy to read that everything eventually got sorted out.

[Clint_D]

The water looks incredible! Looks like great fun, even if y'all haven't encountered any monster GT's yet.

[Giles]

Yesterday, we caught a lot of fish.  Nothing massive for me, my largest GT being about 20kg, I had a donkey of a fish attack my lure 3 times close to the boat, but did not connect.

The largest to the boat was for Cyril, about 45kg….

[Matt]

Don’t know why but I was thinking about the fishing trip this morning…

[Giles]

Hahahaha

[Giles]

Sorry, all went a little quiet.  Who said bad things come in three's or as @goosehd surmised, perhaps I am the unluckiest guy around.

Anyway, on Wednesday evening after a good days fishing, we got back to the lodge and started cleaning our tackle. I popped inside to have a quick shower and change, came back ou=tside barefoot and did not notice that Szymon had been sluicing down the tackle on the marble steps.  I slipped and fell quite dramatically, hitting my brow on the edge of the steps.  Lucking Cyril is an ex-firefighter, knows what to do with cuts and stuff like that, and carries a really good first aid kit with him.  He patched me up and we walked to the doctors surgery which, as luck would have it, was only 100 yards away. When I showed the nurse my wound (which I had not seen) her exclamation of "oh my God" did nothing to make me feel better 

The doctor arrived and 7 stitches later and a load of paperwork, I was out of there.  I did not fish the following day (not wanting to get the dressing wet with salt water), nor did I tell Paula until I was 3 minutes from home last night, as she had got pretty upset about the damage I had done to myself in the whale incident, so I did not want to wreck her week further.

A pictorial history:

I did go fishing on Friday and we had a brilliant day, lots of different species and my largest GT of the week (I'm guessing about 18kg).  If the other buggers ever send me photos, I will post

[Giles]

On the last night, Sami the owner of the lodge, took us for a traditional Camel meal, which was really good:

We then went back to the hotel and had our first "beer" of the week.  It was a bottle of Corona each and cost USD70 for 4 beers.  We were not amused…..