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“THE FISH MOVED AROUND QUITE A LOT AND WE HAD TO PUT OUR HANDS OVER THE EYES TO RELAX THEM.” Dani THE BOYS GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE CATCH OF THE DAY
As a regular visitor, Dave says the beauty of Gran Canaria is that his wife can relax by the hotel pool while he’s fishing, and they can still meet up for dinner in the evening – which is exactly what our family would be doing too after the outing. Alex and Dani are the first to jump up when the sun makes an appearance, their mood lifting with the clouds. At our shoreside base, Derek points out terrapins in what they affectionately call “the lake”, whilst the equally hands-on David explains how they prepare the homemade bait: “We soak tiger nuts for 24 hours. They’re then boiled for an hour and left to ferment for at least a week – although the longer the better – along with hemp, maize and peanuts.” The kids are a bit disappointed not to have slimy worms and grubs to get stuck into – and I can’t help but think how relieved my squeamish wife would be if she were here with us – but it’s not long before they’re using all their might to throw handfuls of it as far as they can into the water. It turns out that carp fishing is a game of patience. You’re not casting your rod manually and standing up, ready to reel in fish after fish. Instead, you set up the alarmed lines and are able to relax and wait for the fish to take the bait. It leaves me free to catch up with some holiday reading in the glorious sunshine. I worry that the boys might get bored, but they keep themselves busy with guarding the bait against the local ducks, who keep trying to take a peck at it. Every now and again, the alarm goes off and I resort to being a kid again myself, sometimes jumping up in more excitement than Alex and Dani. I start having visions of myself appearing as an Angler’s Mail cover star with a huge catch, following in the footsteps of EastEnders star Scott Maslen – who caught a monster from the deep on a fishing trip with the Carp Gran Canaria boys, and declared it to be the best fishing holiday that he’s ever had. But it’s David, the owner, who’s the record holder on the island. His 25.43kg common carp took him an epic 45-minute struggle to land, DAVID’S 25.43 KG COMMON CARP TOOK HIM AN EPIC 45 MINUTES TO LAND HERE: DAVID, CARP GRAN CANARIA’S BIG FISH, POSES WITH ‘ONE OF THE FAMILY’; BELOW: THE ESSENTIAL TACKLE BOX HIT USHUAÏA’S SKY LOUNGE TO MINGLE WITH A-LISTERS AND GRAB THE BEST VIEW IN TOWN Gran Canaria MAY.JUN.JUL 69
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