Giles is off to Morocco Chasing Blue Fin Tuna Again - Sept 2022

[Giles]

Just hope it ain't Putain coming for conscripts…..

[neph93]

@Giles:

Just hope it ain't Putain coming for conscripts…..

Ugh… that is going to go badly. Also, love the pun.

Whenever Eddie sees Putain’s face on the tv or a newspaper, he gives him two middle fingers [emoji38]

Anyhoo, back to the fishing. As an infrequent fisher of fish, it normally takes me two failed bites to remember to set my hook properly.

[Peter]

Very cool pictures! Totally not jealous..

[Giles]

Just lost one on this. I gave it 2 hrs whacks and dropped the fish 20 seconds later. I got bollocked by Moha for not given it 5

[Giles]

Waiting for the wind……

[Giles]

Unfortunately not to me or Szymon, but one of the locals, 120kg….

[Matt]

Whoa

[Giles]

Emergency repairs….

[Giles]

Today was hard.  No wind and very hot, hardly saw any fish all day.  Szymon had one of about 35Kg, I lost a bigger one 20 or so seconds into the fight.

I had an enlightening chat with a guy who works for the cooperative.  This village and the ones on either side share a total quota of 50 tonnes per year. So our villagers compete, not with each other, but with the other two villages to try and get as much of that 50 tonnes landed as possible.  The fish we catch, count towards that quota.

I love fishing here, it is highly cooperative (funny that), and knowledge and information is shared freely, the guys are not fishing for themselves, but for the village as a whole.  That is not to say there is not any pride in catching a lot or the biggest, the guy who had the 120 kg one today was as proud as punch and the talk of the cafés….

Tomorrow, we get up at 04:00 to go and catch flying fish and then go and try and catch tuna.  Popping rods will be taken, just incase there is surface action when the sun comes up.

[Matt]

Take a shotgun for the flying fish.

Best of luck and be safe.  Within reason of course.

[Giles]

So, the flying fish rest in calm water at night, you shine a torch on the water and the flying fish sort of give off an opalescent light, you stick a hand net in front of them and they swim into the net.

Easy.

Well, I let Szymon do it, and I count how many we have…..

[Matt]

Hopefully there’s alcohol involved.  Is it even fishing without it?

[Giles]

I’m with 3 Poles.

What do you think?

[ROman]

Beer and Vodka???

[Giles]

Tak

[Giles]

Catch phrase for the week (borrowed from the British army)

Hurry up and wait

[Giles]

Szymon - God I feel rough this morning
Giles - Can’t have been the couscous
Szymon - No, I think it was the additional kebab I had at midnight

[Nik]

Additional kebab probably sounded great in the moment

[Giles]

[goosehd]

Congratulations, it looks huge!  How big is that one?