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

[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?

[Twistlock]

Wow, looks massive.

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[neph93]

Look at that face… [emoji2956][emoji2956][emoji2956]

Like a four-year-old on xmas morning [emoji1474]

[Giles]

@goosehd:

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

Bigger than the previous one, but we did not weigh or estimate it.  I could have gone with it to the weighing station, but was hungry and did not need to know that much….

But probably 60kgish

[endo]

@Giles:

But probably 60kgish

wow, congratulations Giles!

(is it bad that I get hungry when I see that fish?)