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Going back to Cali

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David Noble:
Hey Jeen,

The trick with getting the surface strikes is just to keep filming, and it will happen, some of those strikes are great..  That day the camera guy was Sebastien our guide (not the skipper) who is a legend and does everything, airport pickups, transfers, logistics, fishing, cameraman, translator etc. 

Having the esky to sit on was a help.  I had a couple of days rostered on the video camera, but spent a bit too much time fishing to get surface strikes.  I think I prefer getting nice shots on the stills camera.

I had just caught 2 x spaniards on day 2 both leaping 6 ft in the air. So I told Seb to film my retrieves for 15 minutes for no action. On the last retrieve with the popper 5 meters from the boat, he turned the camera off before I finished retrieving and THEN a spaniard takes a leap at my popper (and missed).  Would have been nice to get that one up close!  But you learn from these things.

Agree Warwick, those gimbals weren't great but that was due to being badly modified.. 

Cheers Dave

Rowan Stanek:
Great report Dave, get some more photos up!

Dave Schmidt:
awesome report pics and vid... looks like i need to start saving for a trip over there!!

Tony Raspudic:
G Day Dave, looks like Etienne's got some pretty good spots up and running since I last fished with him...looking forward to fishing with him again!

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