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JOHNGEDEN
KRIS
TERRY
BINGHAM
THORNLEY
DEMPSEY
t h ere, I was shaking, the ro d wa s b e n di n g ove r d o u bl e , a n d
t h is thing wasn’t movi ng. S o I p u t t h e ro d o n t h e re s t , p u t t h e
ke ttle on, and we were loo k i n g a t e ac h o t h er l i ke , wh a t c a n we
d o ? Daniel’s like, “Dad, co me o n , p ul l ! P u ll i t h a rd e r a n d g e t
i t out!” I said, “No, I don’t wa n t to l o s e i t! ” I sa i d we c o ul d g o
a n d look for a boat , so we we n t l o o k i n g fo r a b o a t a t h a l f t h re e
i n the morning with a torc h, w i t h h i m i n hi s l i t t l e we l l i e s , a n d
I was running around bare fo o t , a s I ’d ju s t g o t o u t o f t h e b iv vy
to play a fish.
Anyway, we found a boat , but it had a lock on it , and we
couldn’t unlock it . I started waking up some other anglers to
see if anyone knew who had a key to this boat . It turned out
that I woke up the right person, and he phoned someone who
lived in the house just over the back, an absolutely brilliant
guy who came down in the middle of the night with a key and
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