British Team & Squad Dive. 23/8/8

[eric aqua]

Thanks again to the nine-squad members who turned up at 6am for the training session at Bognor today. Trosky came out on top with a fine catch of bass one of which weighed in at 8.5 lbs. Also Keith for his catch of big mullet, Mick Veal is to be awarded a full quota of Brownie points for spending 1 hour in the water despite suffering from bronchial pneumonia, kidney infection and walking with a limp. The viz varied between 8 & 15ft on the outer reef with large mullet and kilo Pollack in abundance. Best story of the day, the manager (myself) dropped over a ledge in 10 mts turning slowly to the left two bass one about 12 lbs and the other ten slid out under my gun to the right easing the gun round the bigger fish turned back in with the ten pounder heading in to the haze straight on. With half a second to make my mind up I went for the smaller fish hoping to take the bigger fish out of the ledge on the next dive, I must be getting old the spear missed it completely and got stuck. As I moved forward to clear it the larger bass swam round me to have a look before thundering of into the gloom. Anybody want to but my kit!