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INTUITIVE CONTROL
LIGHT, POWERFUL, DURABLE…
Safety in numbers INTUITIVE CONTROL The question should rope entangled propeller be, “How do you edit episodes, a broken rod, a it down to fit all your mangled prop and a case clusterforks into a of sunburn so severe I got home looking like Typically I spend some single story?” of the year fishing with Yoda’s great uncle after his Even if I only go other Dudds, and some fishing once a year, I induction tour passed too of the year fishing with would still have enough close to the nuclear reactor myself; what I call material. on the Millennium Falcon. Mates are important for masturfishing. This year Between broken rods, things like companionship, has been marked as broken elbows, broken sharing life stories, mental one with a lot of solo boats, broken...well name health stability and memory trips, and in terms of a fishing part or a body checks of past stupid things fish caught, it’s been part and I’ve pretty much got you covered. done, but to me, the Dudds really poor. are much more important However, in terms This is why fishing as mortality controllers. of gear broken, it’s been with The Dudds is so Too much time away really impressive. important – the lads tend to from collective wisdom Someone asked me the block me when I’m about to follow the long and sees me exposed to other day, “If your column is winding path of stupidity. the frailties of my own clumsiness. about the stupid stuff you But that doesn’t happen So, if for no other do, how do get enough when I’m masturfishing! The last two solo reason than for continuing material to write a column trips have included to survive into the coming every month?” ALBERTON MELBOURNE aforementioned: year, I salute my mates: I just looked at them the ALBERTON MARINEbroken elbow, a broken MELBOURNE MARINE CENTRE The Dudds! Pommers, like a golden retriever Street Alberton 393-399 South Doughers, Gippsland Hwy Stuffer, Boobies looks at39 Johnson quantum transducer, a mistakenly and Skipper. mechanics. P: (03) 5183 2344 cut transducer cable, two Dandenong South Thanks boys. F: (03) 5183 2219 P: (03) 9703 2003 W: albertonmarine.com.au E: info@melbournemarine.com.au W: melbournemarine.com.au BENDIGO BENDIGO MARINE & OUTDOORS MORNINGTON PENINSULA MY MARINE 160 Midland Highway Epsom Cnr Nepean Highway & P: (03) 5448 3988 Ponderosa Place Dromana W: bendigomarine.com.au P: (03) 5987 0900 MELBOURNE W: mymarine.com.au BL MARINE MORNINGTON PENINSULA 612- 614 Plenty Road Preston NAUTICAL MARINE P: (03) 9478 1420 141 Hotham Road F: (03) 9470 4638 Sorrento W: blmarine.com.au P: (03) 5984 1666 SHEPPARTON E: info@nauticalmarine.com.au BOATS AND MORE W: nauticalmarine.com.au 207 Numurkah Road Shepparton P: (03) 5822 2108 TOORADIN F: (03) 5821 2908 P&J MARINE SERVICE CENTRE P/L W: boatsandmore.com.au 101 Tooradin Station Road Tooradin P: (03) 5998 3107 MORWELL E: pjmarine_services@bigpond.com CRAWFORD MARINE 71-77 Chickerell Street Morwell P: (03) 5134 6522 MELBOURNE F: (03) 5134 6455 TRIPLE M MARINE W: crawfordmarine.com.au 117 Northgate Drive Thomastown P: (03) 9465 8787 ECHUCA F: (03) 9466 1418 EADES XTREME MARINE W: triplemmarine.com.au 24 Sturt Street Echuca P: (03) 5482 2333 F: (03) 5482 2133 W: xtrememarine.net.au BRISBANE
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