Seeing a 4-5m shadow in the water in front of you, followed by it turning around and snapping the triple ply wire line with no effort really shows what a problem it would have been to actually land it.... For her its even worse, as she has landed it...
Hutch wrote:It has been a week, and it seems a shame to let such a venerable thread die, so I'll keep it on life support just a little while longer.
Mike Henke muses just after winning the Battle of Spindle and inheriting 400,000 Sollie prisioners....Yet from the perspective of securing its prizes, Tenth Fleet was in the position of someone who'd chartered a small boat to fish for near-tuna and landed a twelve-meter fluke-shark, instead. An impressive achievement, yes, but what did you do with the thing?
I've never caught a fluke-shark, but I get the picture....