The wonders of a calm beach as dawn breaks

So lucky to go fishing at dawn on a pristine beach this morning.  A calm sea and the water alive with what we West Aussies call Herring : a medium sized fighting fish.  Our mandated bag limit is 12 and I had mine within 70 minutes.  It was a fish almost every cast.

I thanked the Great Life Force for allowing me this day to have some of the fruits of the sea. A yummy dinner tonight of fresh crumbed fish fillets.

By the way I don't toss live fish into a bucket of seawater and let them suffocate.  I take them off the hook and immediately dispatch them.  Trying to be humane in the context of the reality of catching fish.  As readers would know I don't believe in caching fish for sport and release.  That is downright cruel.


May the Force be with us!


GD

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