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d a wn seemed to take fo re v e r
a n d to be honest I was s t i l l
s h aking a touch when it fin a l l y
a r rived. I got out the zip p e d u p fortress thanking the G o o d
L o rd in the sky that I’ve b e e n
s a ved being eaten ali ve, j u s t a
f e w short hours ago!
Pete was in the swim th e y
c a lled the Tench hole, an d I
m y r o d s o u t. N o t t h a t I w a s
properly focused on catching
anything now! My mind was
n o w wo n d e r i n g w h o t h e o t h e r
a n g l e r s w e re t h a t h a d s e e n
the creature and what had
actually happened with their
encounters. It turned out that
Richard Box was one of the
small group of anglers that
w alked up there to see i f h e
w as up y et, which he wa s .
S o , I told him what happen e d,
r e ally expecting to get the p i s s
r i pped out of me and l aug h e d
a t , only to receive th e ex a c t
p o lar opposite respon se o f
y e ah, I know all abo ut it Tu t t i
s a ys Pete. It has been s e e n
b y a few of the lads th at h a v e
f i s hed over here and to h e a r
t h at other anglers had s e e n
a n d had a similar ex perie n c e
c a lmed me down stra i g h t
a way and gave me some mu c h n e eded relief in my o wn m i n d
t h at I wasn’t a ravin g lo o n e y
n u t job after all! Pete m ade m e
a Cupa, an d I downed that a n d
w ent back to my swi m to p u t
had encountered the Hainault
Ye t i w h i l e h e w a s f i s h i n g t h e
Dame end of the lake and was
h a v i n g a so c i a l w i t h L a r r y a n d
another lad. I’ll just mention
that on the occasion I saw
t h i s c r e a t u r e I w a s n ’t d r u n k
o r b e e n s mo k e d a n y t h i n g
o r c h e wi n g m u s h r o o m s . I
a m u n a b l e t o sa y t h e s a m e
f o r th e o t h e r l a d s a n d t h e y
may have participated in the
f a m o u s H a i na u l t S p o r t k n o w n
a s B u c k e t e er i n g ! ! !! ! ( i f y o u
k n o w. . . y o u k n o w ! ! ) N o t f o r
the angler that had the odd
t o t e o n a j o i nt , t h a t ’s f o r s u r e.
Yo u ’d b e c o ug h i n g y o u r l u n g s
out for hours after one of
t h o se b a d b o y s . E v e n h a v i n g
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