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Eventful Fishing Trip

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Today my girlfriend took me fishing. We were fishing off the rocks at Killarney beach. Rhi was the first to catch a fish (it was a juvenile salmon). I had been getting a few nibbles for a while but I finally caught a fish and I was so excited.... but it was a pufferfish. We had a lot of trouble getting it to let go of the hook because it wouldn't stop biting down on it. I put it in the water while we got the pliers - but then it 'puffed up'. Pufferfish all puffed up (still cute) We finally got the hook out of it and it swam away... then not long later Rhi caught an even bigger pufferfish! We struggled to get the hook out of that one too - but when we set it free, it got washed into the rocks and then got stuck because it had puffed itself up and wedged itself there. I think I was trying to free it for about an hour, and the tide was going out. I was just determined to get it out. There was even a crab underneath it that was trying to poke at it. Then it finally started