Giles chases one of his dreams again

[Mustafa911]

Oman ocean is beautiful !!
I grew up not far from there !

Whilst you there don’t forget to bring some incense “ Loban” . Oman produce the best loban in the world and used by many parfum manufacturer’s.

Have fun!

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[Giles]

We call it frankincense,  I am 200 kms north of Salalah (which I think is the hub of the Loban trade).  I bought a load last time I was here….

[Giles]

32kg…

[JDelage]

You don't eat those? Is it catch & release? I know nothing about fishing… I've seen those UW though; they're very cool fish.

[Madame Buttonfly]

No pics today because Giles told me earlier he lost three fish 

But had yellowfin tuna sashimi and chicken curry for his dinner, so seems happy enough! 

[gaseousclay]

@Giles

How far out to sea do you go to fish? I don't quite have the stomach for deep sea fishing since i'm prone to motion sickness. Curious if you take dramamine or if you are used to it.

[Clint_D]

Damn Giles, that's a great catch!

[neph93]

@Madame:

No pics today because Giles told me earlier he lost three fish 

But had yellowfin tuna sashimi and chicken curry for his dinner, so seems happy enough! 

The lord giveth and taketh away, I guess. Say hi 

[Giles]

The islands we fish from are 35miles from the dock.  But this is not what we would term deep sea fishing, GT's inhabit relatively shallow water (the max we fish in is 70 feet) and we typically cast surface lures which get hit on the surface in the most dramatic way.  A hit from a large (30kg+) GT can be like someone dropping a piano into the water from a helicopter, and hits come from literally nowhere.  The reason that you see no land in the background of my pictures is because, good holding structure can be a 100 yard by 100yd spot in the middle of nowhere ,and frankly we don't want others working out where we catch the fish.  These fish are a valuable resource and can take 50 years to reach 40 or 50kg, we don't want them being caught and killed.

We are 100% catch and release for GT.  If we catch a grouper, snapper, mahi mahi or the like, then that may get taken home for supper.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Al+Hallaniyah/@17.7981475,55.6426558,9.52z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3c2c8e20a4e1b3fd:0xc765ed090eeff49f!8m2!3d17.5041962!4d56.0361469

[Giles]

My view for 90 minutes every morning:

My view for 90 minutes every afternoon:

Yep, I spend a lot of the day on a bean bag on the floor of the boat…

[Finkster]

^ .. better than auditing patches or packing belt loop buddies 

[louisbosco]

so you pretty much spend most of the time on the boat when you're out or do you go back to land?

my first experiencing fishing was a bad one. haven't tried it after…

[Giles]

We leave the lodge at 5:30 and get back at about 17:00.  We talk shit, eat, mend tackle (2 broken rods today), go to bed and repeat….

[Giles]

Catch:

And release:

[marlin]

Holly fecking shit…congrats to that catch...must have been a hell of a fight!

[rocket]

glad the "fish" have released you after the catch…

[RoxRocks86]

Great catch! How was the water?

[Seul]

Fishy…

[neph93]

@Seul:

Fishy…

More so after Giles got in it.

[Giles]

I got totally wasted by a large fish yesterday.  My 200lb breaking strain leader parted at the knot next to the lure when I was having to give it maximum pressure to stop it reefing me.  I ended up hitting the deck with some force (and it has to be said, not a lot of style).  I was damaged in a couple of places.  The local solution to the misplaced muscles…..