What has Andy gone and done now…?

On Easter sunday Marty and myself got up early after staying up until 2am to watch Liverpool beat Blackburn 4 – 0 on Saturday night…worth it for Fernando Torres’ goal of the season contender alone..!!..Darryl – the guy with the water skiing boat had offered to take us up the coast to the Coromandel Peninsula for some fishing.  I jumped at the opportunity because A) the Coromandel was one of the few places I didn’t actually get to while touring the North Island, and B) I love fishing, and had promised myself I’d get out on a boat somewhere for some fishing while I was here…

It wasn’t a ‘great’ day weather wise, but it was still ok to go out…Marty and myself were beginning to think we might regret buying those pies on the way for breakfast, but thankfully everything stayed down…Darryl caught a load of red snapper, but only two of keepable size…I think the bag limit is ten per person per day, so we didn’t exactly have the most successful day, but still great craic.  I caught 3 small red snapper and 1 yellowtail, and Marty caught…..1 small Red Snapper…It was good just to get out and try some fishing for different species of fish than I’m used to back home…anyway, a few photos for those of you who haven’t fallen asleep yet…

Darryl’s boat – it is a full cream beast..!!..

Darryl with one of his ‘keeper’ red snappers…they have really sharp spines on their fins, hence the towel…

Me with one of my red snapper…real fisheries scientists don’t need a towel…(you just can’t see the spine through my right thumb and the tear in my left eye…)

Marty just spent most of the day sitting like this.. ;o) only joking!!..basically every time we dropped the line down we got a bite but hooking them was so difficult!?..Darryly obvioulsy had the nack…and also decent fishing equipment that wasn’t older than I am..!?..(which is actually getting quite old!?)

So there you have it…bet you’re glad you tuned in again, eh..!?..it just gets better and better…my back is still a bit dodgy but I’ve rested it for three days and am going to try it on the gold course this afternoon with copious amounts of deep heat rubbed in…this is our last chance before uncle Des comes over with his clubs and we all head out for a game on Thursday or Friday…should be interesting..!?..

It’s also only NINE DAYS until I fly out of the southern hemisphere and back to London..!?..madness…I don’t know how long I’ll stay in London with Sal for…and then there are rumours I might fly back to Belfast ‘via’ Edinburgh to visit the lovely Simm’s…who knows…the world is my lobster after all…