The Fish

On the way to Singapore, K'Gari became  a 'proper' cruising boat, when the first fish was caught, landed and duly dispatched, to the dinner table and freezer.

We had been trolling a couple of lines from  aft for days. Each evening recovering and stowing them, in case we had any sudden and bizarre course alterations in the night and forgot about the lines.
The thought of wrapping a line around a prop or rudder , is not one  to  be contemplated.

A casual glance at one of the lines one relatively windless afternoon appeared  to indicate  it had a plastic bag on it. So far the total had been 4 bits of floating seaweed, so we were definitely moving up in the piscatorial hunter gather world, having now captured a piece of plastic!

I started to haul it in and when it gave a bit of a jump  I realised it was in fact, a fish!

Battle stations. Totally unprepared to actually catch anything, we had nothing ready . Didn't even own a gaff.

In the interest of squeamish stomachs, not to mention WHS inspectors possibly finding the odd deficiency in the JSA paperwork, the video stops before the blood flows- it is safe to view, but still might not pass WHS requirements.

https://youtu.be/pr6kDw7579M

For the record on the plundering of the ocean front, so far, the stats for K'Gari stand at 

1 fish for 2287 nm. One lost lure and 4 bits of seaweed!

Th first cutlets were on the bbq about an hour and half later!