Oman Fishing 2022

[Giles]

This is a long haul…

04:55 at Muscat airport departures waiting to check into the flight to Salalah.... My luggage (hopefully) has been checked all the way through, but not me 

[Matt]

Get after it Cap’n.

[Giles]

Made it through to departures….

[Paul9221]

That Muscat airport is lovely!

[endo]

bon voyage & a good catch, G

[Giles]

Not a good start. None of my luggage made to to Salalah. So no clothes (not bothered) and no rods, reels or lures.

[AdamC]

Ah no that is not a good start! Hopefully it finds its way to you very soon.

That second photo did make me laugh though 

[Kasi]

Safe travels G..

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[Matt]

At least you have an extremely uncomfortable looking bench to sit on.

[Giles]

So, this our rig for the week…..

I have borrowed clothes and tackle, so I am ready to go.  Well. it's an 05:30 start, so I may not be as ready as I think…...

[mclaincausey]

That bitch looks FAST. I hope you have an amazing time G!

[Giles]

[motojobobo]

@Giles:

So, this our rig for the week…..

I have borrowed clothes and tackle, so I am ready to go.  Well. it's an 05:30 start, so I may not be as ready as I think......

Have an excellent time!!! By the looks of the rig…I hope your sunblock lotion was in your handbag. 

[louisbosco]

should've just sailed there instead of flying

[Giles]

Had a few today. Nothing big. But scenery magnificent:

[Giles]

And luggage is due here at midnight. Good job too, as we are camping on one of the islands tomorrow night.

[Giles]

It was all going so well.

My luggage turned up in the middle of the night.

We had to leave the lodge at 05:15 to get the boat launched before the tide got too low.  So I got up at 04:00 and sorted my tackle etc out.  All good.  We had a quick breakfast and launched the boat.

We got up on the plane, cruising at about 30knots and heading for the islands.  It's a 40 or 50 minute passage, so I got my head down to catch some sleep.  I was sitting just forward of the starboard engine and half asleep, when all hell broke loose.  There was the most tremendous crash, I got pummelled from behind by something very hard and heavy, and the boat came to a grinding halt.

A breaching humpback whale had hit us and stopped the starboard engine dead in its tracks.  The trim cylinder and rod were fucked and the whole engine pivoted forward hitting the seat back and pushing that forward into me.

A reel foot sheared when it hit my shoulder, such was the force of the impact.  Luckily all that has happened to me is that I have some bad bruising to my left hand shoulder and my range of motion in my left arm is a little restricted.

That is the seat back, it was straight this morning, I was sitting between the 2 rod holders….

Some of the damage to the boat where the seat-back is attached to the hull

Tilt mechanism hydraulic cylinder

Bust reel

Continuing was out of the question, so he turned around and headed back to shore on the port engine.  Trouble is, now the tide had gone out further and we could not lift the starboard engine out of the water.  This made it extremely difficult to get the boat onto the trailer and out of the water.  We would normally accelerate onto the trailer, but we only had one engine and the other was sticking into the sand.  We eventually managed to get the boat on the trailer and then get the now stuck truck and car out of the water…

[Olly]

The Old Man and The Sea Part 2! Hope you're ok Giles???

[Giles]

Thank you.  Bruised and battered, but in one piece thanks.  Fished from the rocks late this morning and I can still cast, so all good.

Just praying that the engine can be fixed today…..

[Daniel San]

Wow, that could have ended much worse  ???
Good to hear that you’re ok!
Hope the rest of your fishing adventure will be fun