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Daily Mirror
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Dion Jones

'I almost burst into tears when it was time for me to leave this near paradise'

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.

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