THE ULTIMATE ANGLING BUCKET LIST

way back in amongst the dugouts, we give the fish away to the locals, telling him later that the fishing
had remained poor after he'd gone.
On one particularly blowy day we decided to stay inside the mangrove creeks to fish a species match
with a mix of trolling and bait fishing. A case of having to be innovative with various scratching rigs,
home made floats and the like.
Nothing big came along, but the variety was fairly impressive, with everything from sunpats and angel
fish through to snappers and frog fish.
Most impressive of all, but at the same time also quite worrying were the sea snakes, which loved peeled
prawns. These were brown and yellow hooped with blue heads. More worrying still, we managed to
run aground on a mud bank with a dropping tide and had to get out of the boat to push.
It was the thought of what might be down there in the mud as we walked bare foot through it that
concerned us most. Thankfully we soon got the boat afloat again, then later on found out that the sea
snakes were not in fact snakes at all, but banded snake eels. Still, better safe than sorry.
On my final visit I fished with another ex-pat Englishman Steve Robinson, again out of Oyster Creek,
and again aboard one of the orkney longliners. But to get out of the creek you had to sail under the main
road bridge, which on one particular day almost saw the end of us.
Mr. & Mrs Williams actual wedding photograph
The tide was making and it couldn't have been too far off high water, so it was a bit of a dash to get
beyond it and away in time. The problem was that half way under we got the roof of the cuddy wedged
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