Articles: Humour

15 April 2009 Fishing is not better than sex… On one of those perfect days about which outdoor and fishing writers tend to wax overly lyrical, we were casting lures from a favourite lump of rock somewhere 'up north'. My companion for the day was a man of few words, but of those, a large proportion began with 'F'.  Read more

04 August 2008 Not actually Fishing A FEW YEARS ago I wrote a story that began by stating that to capture the fish was not all of the fishing. It was a quote from Zane Grey, who knew a thing or two about fishing, but was quite clearly deluded. To capture the fish is actually not much of the fishing at all, if old Zane were being completely candid.  Read more

09 June 2008 Tackle Box Therapy MOTHER Nature, in the form of a 25knot south-easterly, had forced organisers to cancel the fishing competition. It was a sensible decision. Since the distance from shore one can comfortably travel in a small boat is in direct proportion to the multiple of age times wind strength, we stood at the launching ramp and looked seaward - about 25 metres, which was about as far as three middle aged men would have been prepared to go on a day like today.  Read more

24 March 2008 Quollotay control problems "Don't mess with Mother Nature" sums up Jeevan William's and my 2001 experiences at One Tree Beach (OTB). Robert "Bluey" Vaughan's cave mouth in the Admiralty Gulf of Western Australia's Kimberley region had more bad karma than George Bush in a Kabul jail.  Read more

25 January 2008 Not Driving, Waving Somewhere on the outskirts of every major city in Australia is an invisible line, and I'm determined to find it. I went looking for it on a recent trip to Shark Bay, and while I got close, I was never able to quite pin down the exact location where it crossed the Brand Highway.  Read more