A Hazy Proposition

The Sheik | August 11

I’ve hit on a great way to boost my bank balance. It’s super clever because not only does it prevent me from wasting money but it also earns me cold hard coin. It’s an old ploy that’s used in plenty of old movies with sneering gangster types. They like to call it insurance. I like to call it blackmail.

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To Boat or not to Boat

The Sheik | July 11

I’m spending a lot of time wondering whether it’s better to go fishing without a boat and to ‘suck it up princess’, and just go down and throw some bait into a big wet thing like a creek, river or beach.

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Starting out tough…

The Sheik | June 11

There’ something to be said about learning about boating in a beat up old beast with a 60hp black anchor on the blunt end. Especially if you’re a Dudd.

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Never a borrower be . . .

The Sheik | May 11

I find it very irritating when I have to use other people’s gear, especially their boats. To be fair, I think the people whose boats I borrow find it very irritating too. It seldom makes it back in the condition in which it left. Especially in prawn season, when I tend to get down and dirty throwing the cast net into gutters that have got more mud in them than a giant muddy thing.

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Ode to Mine Enemy

The Sheik | April 11

The Dudds are very different people.

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A Day in the Life of Real Fishermen

The Sheik | March 11

You know you’re mixed up with real fishermen when you’re told in the car at 5am that they know the car can pull the boat to the ramp 100k’s from home, but they’re not sure whether it can get the boat back home afterwards… and no one cares.

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