"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot"
Steven Wright
Saturday afternoon I was cruising along Rabbit Island Beach on my kite buggy. It was the lightest of breezes so I was flying my big green 8.5m2 C-Quad. I was just sitting back, enjoying the ride, watching the waters edge slide by. I was trying to get the buggy wheels as close to the wash as I could without getting wet. Up ahead I spotted something splashing around in the shallow water. At first I thought it might be a ray feeding in the shallows, but as I went past at about 25kph I could see it was a large fish. I stopped the kite buggy, landed the kite and trotted back to the spot, expecting it to be gone. It was still there, flapping on its side as it if had just been caught on a line. I grabbed it by the tail and carried it up the beach. Inspecting it closer I think it was a Sliver Warehou, and a large one at that. It looked like it had been caught in a net and been released (often happens if the fisherman does not have quota for that particular species). It was probably exhausted and just wound up in the surf, then washed up just as I was passing. I tucked it down the back of my buggy seat and set off down the beach to put it in the van.
It was a great feeling to score a free feed of fresh seafood, literally out of the blue like that. Even better though, was the priceless look on the faces of the sunbathers who had been watching me cruise up and down the beach on my buggy for the past hour, as I pulled up, landed the kite, took the fish from behind the buggy seat, and cool as a cucumber, walked up the beach to put it in the van, as if thats how I always catch my fish. ;)
11:05:20 PM 
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