The one that got away...and then came back again! Vance's second miracle

This is the fishing story the boys told me in Weipa after they returned from the day in the yellow tinny.

Someone had told them of a great fishing spot a "pylon number 10", so they set off to find it. I think there was some consternation when they realised that they were starting at pylon number 32 and there were about 500 metres between the pylons. I've seen the photos, and there certainly was no sign of land, so far, far away! They each had a rod, but John decided he wanted to double his chances of a catch, so had two rods. Now, if you are busy with one rod, and a fish bites on the other rod and the rod falls, locking the line in, what do think might happen? Well, the boys will tell you, that when this happened to John's rod no. 2, chaos is generally what happens. The fish took the bait, the rod fell, John misses the rod, then bumped into Mark, who then trod on a lure. Valiantly, he then tried to grab the rod, bumped into Vance, who also tried to grab the rod, but missed by millimetres. The rod then sailed smoothly over the transom, over the motor into the inky depths of the Gulf of Carpentaria still attached to the fish. John said it was like watching Leo De Caprio disappearing into the Atlantic at the end of 'Titanic'. Vance laughed. Mark removed the lure from his foot, and John, yet again, had to bravely accept his losses. Carsten reckoned John said "I can't believe it" about 100 times in the next half hour.

And then ...
They continued to fish, getting a few bites, and small catches, and John still carrying on about not just the loss of the rod, the the way it happened. And then Vance got a big bite, and started to reel it in. All eyes were on Vance's line to see what he'd caught, and in the depths they could make out something long snaking through the water. Yes, Vance's second miracle was that he had in fact caught the line still attached to the fish still attached to John's rod. Vance had caught John's rod. Unbelievable, but true!! Vance handed John the rod, and then John proceeded to reel in the fish hooked onto his line a full half hour earlier, a Spanish Mackeral.Great story.