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Die vislyn het hom vasgetrek en die drie vishoeke aan die lyn het deur sy linkeragterbeen en albei vlerke gesteek.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Kessell het dit gelyk of die reier van die land se kant af gevlieg en in die vislyn vasgevlieg het. Hy het nie tyd gemors nie en die reier versigtig in sy boot gelaai en die vislyn afgeknip. Die duidelik getraumatiseerde vo\u00ebl het egter in selfverdediging met sy skerp snawel na Kessell se hand probeer byt en hom lig beseer.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kessell het Etienne Swanepoel, plaaslik bekend as &#8216;n slangvanger en natuurbewaarder, summier gekontak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swanepoel het die bloureier na Weskus Veeartseny Ing geneem, waar die veeartse drs. Marthinus Jacobs en Lucinda Cowan dadelik hulp verleen het.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens Swanepoel is die voorval &#8216;n ernstige herinnering aan die belangrikheid van verantwoordelike hengel. &#8220;Visvang binne 100 meter van kragdrade af, is onwettig. 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