[Capt Dave Bender]

I don’t question that flygaff’s question in regards to tenacious
Was in anyway derogatory . Capt Bernie is a dear friend of mine as is his wife Elvira. I just don’t like the word, “ packing it in”

Bernie has been fighting the fight of his life and winning the war , it was with his permission that I’m responding .

Bernie and I go way back to our roots in flemington and didn’t meet until we were 100 miles offshore probably 35 years ago.

I remember a night he was on the bow of my boat all night catching longfin all by himself, what a night. In any event,he’s is a dear friend and colleague .

He once told me, “ Dave, there’s two kinds of people in this world,givers and takers, and we are givers❤️

Sometimes life catches up and we have to put aside what we love about fishing and tend to ourselves or our loved ones