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Photos and text submitted to unbound with permission for one-time use only. All rights reserved. © TC Anderson 16 November 2002

We started out game fishing and wondering where we were going to put a four-foot long tuna if we caught it. Later, we wisely decided to try traditional Omani bottom fishing, which we discovered to be great fun and immensely rewarding. I was too busy taking photos to get involved with fishing right away, but managed to catch 10 medium-sized Mahi Mahi along the way. Meanwhile, Michael caught around 50 of a variety of fish native to Oman, including Sultan Ibrahim, and Snapper, but mostly Mahi Mahi. They are the most expensive and highly-prized fish here, so the captain was impressed as were our neighbors once I brought them home and started giving them away. Sultan Ibrahim is a Red Snapper type of fish known to be sweet to the taste, but we cut them up to use as bait. That's when I knew we were hooked—using the sweetest fish to catch more fish! I noted that it was tougher in texture and disguised the hook well compared with the sardines we originally used that fell apart when introduced into the water, attracting an abundance of prey.

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