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He looked and sounded convincing to me. But not to our man who started asking which base and what<br />

unit, then told him that that particular unit wasn't stationed there at the time, and started to accuse him<br />

of a potential rip off.<br />

The supposed soldier couldn't see in through the doorway because our man was blocking his view. But<br />

as he stepped back to where the gun was, the would be soldier suddenly grasped the gravity of his<br />

predicament and was off, which thankfully was crisis averted. An eventful couple of days to say the<br />

least.<br />

VIRGINIA BEACH – RUDEE INLET<br />

Back in 2002 when my wife Dawn said she fancied a holiday taking in the sights in and around<br />

Washington, trust me to pick a base where the boat fishing just happened to be the costliest in the entire<br />

USA.<br />

At around twelve to fourteen hundred dollars per day even back then for offshore trolling, Virginia rates<br />

amongst the most expensive fishing destinations in the world. Yet from the same marina’s you can<br />

bottom fish fifty trips on a party boat for the same money as dragging lumps of plastic around the ocean<br />

just once.<br />

The old cliché of only getting what you pay for springs to mind here, but that isn't necessarily always<br />

the case. Virginian offshore trolling can be patchy over the high summer months when we were there,<br />

with tuna, when they are to be found, dominating catches.<br />

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