[Pekka]

Rest of the time we dove at Torquay for some crabs and lobster, which we did find but our technique for getting those bugs out of their holes was lacking and our diet included mostly fish and chicken and such. We also did a dive at Lizard Point one day, which was fun, but yet again did not prove to be a match to Budleigh for fish. We saw some mullet and a one bass, but nothing worth a shot. I took some video for fun at all places but Budleigh where I didn’t take the camera with, as I had enough stuff to carry against the current as I was.

We did do some more “unusual” for our spearing trip like go walking around the city and watching the dog races at the lizard. Food was prepared from our catch in communal effort with Tom West as a host of our yearly trip and Halle Marshall as my dear girlfriend who came to help and keep company to Elisa on the shore when me and Tuomo were on our hunting trips. Jez, thank you very much for the weights, you know if you need some extra, just ask me and I will tell Tom to give you the belt. We left it there as I could not get hold of you before we finally took off.
The grand total of fish on our trip was tuomo: one mullet, 2 bass and plenty sightings of “big mommas” (large bass) Pekka: (me) 3 bass of which one was as far as I count “big Momma Bass” and one scallop.
Mikko has told us that he loves scallops and eats them even raw, I need to say that I rather leave them at the ocean floor to filter the muddy water at the bottom. Mikko did provide us with excellent gear with affordable prices, thank you, the gloves worked fine and luckily we didn’t need the extra spear as mine stayed straight.

Now we are planning our next years trip, with few things in mind… no women.. not that they aren’t lovely and all, but hunting trip is a hunting trip.. getting off bed and in the water needs to happen in 30 minutes total, not in 2hours and 30 minutes.. and the second dive can take place right after one bottle of energy\protein drink and a bottle of coke and some chocolate.. and.. well you guys know what I am talking about. And our base needs to be close to the sea.. perhaps one of the beach huts at budleigh.. ? Well we will leave that for future, but this years serious hunting is over as Finland provides no bass… and the sea trout is for those who like to freeze their bullock$ off in subzero water at the eve of Christmas.

Thank you all for taking part ond for those who made our trip possible and of course for DB for making it possible for us to have contacts around the UK.

Safe diving for all Pekka