History and heritage

Gosford Times, April 7, 1921

Jack Dibley of Orange Grove hooked a jewfish only to have it snap his line after a 40-minute tussle.

Later that week when he was buying his usual bait at Blackwall Seafood, he told the proprietor his story.

The proprietor asked him to wait a moment. He disappeared and returned with a seven-kilogram jewfish.

He then produced a lead shot, hook and line which Mr Dibley identified as his own.

The man had found the fish almost dead floating on the surface of the water in Booker Bay after returning from a night's trawling.

He gave the fish to Jack and returned also his hook, line and sinker.

Amanda Jackson, April 3