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OUTSTANDING - Cuba
Dear Arni
We are just back from Jardines De La Reina ,in Cuba. Our holidays have been perfect: Perola is a superb ship and we were looked after like Kings: OUTSTANDING large cabins,each with perfect Bathrooms...fantastic food (lots of lobsters and lovely fish perfectly prepared...very good Suits,e.t.c.). The staff was excellent and so were our guides. The Parque Central hotel is Perfect.
My wife probably caught,on fly,one of the best fish of the season...on the first day...after 4 casts...a Tarpon that "dragged the boat" well over one mile,during over one hour...and was estimated around 115 pounds, a very broad hen about 155cm long (we have good photographs).
Wife and daughter caught a large number of Barracudas ,several Jacks,and...one Shark. We "fed" the sharks with some Barracudas ,until a huge Meru ,well over 100 kilogs ,cleared the area (the sharks were not big),and swallowed ,in one single "gulp",a 22lbs dead Barracuda !!!
We saw a sea Crocodile,Oyspreys ,Iguanas ,and a sort of huge (and nice)"rat" that took an orange in our hands and ate it near us.

Also,we took many nice "swims"in lovely sandy beaches (crocodile free!!).
As to me ,I caught good numbers of large Jacks on fly (Fantastic fighters)..."lost" a very large meru on a Rapala...caught several Tarpons..but "missed or jumped" many more ,due to my fault :I do not strike propely,and tend to raise my rod when I see the fish taking...But I am now ready to return in 3 weeks time,and look "terrrribly forward to that"
jACQUES...THE "JACK" killer.
REGARDS.

