Fishing should come naturally to me. OK, so I’d never actually had a go at it before but I do have Scandinavian heritage and I’m pretty sure fishing is big in northern Europe.
And I’d watched at least five seasons of Deadliest Catch – so how hard could it really be?
As my body dangled awkwardly over the side of the boat idling in the Indian Ocean, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d made a serious miscalculation of my angling abilities.